Microsoft Offers Beta of System Center Data Protection Manager V2

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Microsoft releases the public beta of the Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager version 2. The next version of System Center DPM delivers continuous data protection for Microsoft application and file servers through advanced technology for enterprises of all sizes. Building on the rapid and reliable recovery, efficient protection, and operational simplicity found in Data Protection Manager 2006, customers will be able to extend these cost-saving benefits from individual file servers to their mission-critical Microsoft applications using fully integrated disk-to-disk-to-tape protection.

In today's competitive marketplace, nightly backup is not sufficient for customers of any size. To address the need to better protect corporate data, DPM version 2 enables customers to monitor data changes in real time, enabling zero data loss recovery using a unique and patent-pending agent technology. Even more groundbreaking is the seamless integration of tape and disk, to ensure minimal downtime and reliable application recovery with only a few mouse clicks. Microsoft has been a leader in the growing continuous data protection market since the arrival of DPM 2006, providing CDP capabilities that have enabled businesses of all sizes to take advantage of the greatly improved recovery point objectives found in CDP and real-time replication products. Until Microsoft's entry into CDP, many customers considered advanced data protection technologies too complex and lacking good integration into their key applications.

DPM 2006 already delivers rapid and reliable recovery of files from readily accessible disks instead of waiting to locate and mount tapes. It has an easy-to-use IT administrator interface and enables end users to restore their own data directly from Windows Explorer or any Microsoft Office application. DPM version 2 extends the recovery-centric design of DPM 2006 to Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server and SharePoint Portal Server and enhances its file server protection capability. Traditionally, the backup and recovery of an application required the identification and maintenance of various stores of user data, application binaries and configuration data as well as a list of procedures to recover both the data and the application. With DPM version 2, IT administrators help protect and recover all applications or application objects by using application terminology and concepts such as mailboxes for Microsoft Exchange Server or file shares for Windows file servers. Too often, current backup solutions fail because of the incorrect configuration of what data gets backed up or how. DPM version 2 unifies the application recovery process and the application backup process into one highly integrated continuous data protection solution.

DPM version 2 brings together the best aspects of continuous data protection with traditional tape backup/restore capabilities to provide a comprehensive disk-to-disk-to-tape data recovery solution. By combining continuous protection delivered through a patent-pending real-time block-level filter, along with an advanced backup platform that seamlessly uses both disk and tape, DPM version 2 brings advanced data protection technologies to enterprises of all sizes.

The patent-pending block-level replication technology dramatically reduces the input/output needed to keep large data sets synchronized across all distances, offering significantly greater efficiencies. DPM version 2 provides new, fully integrated support for tape media that builds upon the established disk protection capabilities found in DPM 2006. By enabling the IT administrator to quickly recover applications and files from seamlessly integrated disk and tape media, DPM blends the best of traditional backup methodology with modern CDP technology. With out-of-the-box encryption for media, broad industry support with a variety of tape libraries and advanced media management capabilities, DPM version 2 helps customers protect their data from one console, using the latest data protection technology on their most critical Microsoft infrastructure.

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