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Microsoft has published Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM 2010), a comprehensive backup-and-restore solution built specifically for protecting Windows servers and clients. Data Protection Manager 2010 offers on-going,non-disruptive backup of both physical and virtual systems to local or off-site hard disks as well as off-line recording to magnetic tape, and permits rapid, easy restoration of entire computers or individual files. Data Protection Manager's disk backup provides the performance and reliability you need to preserve your vital business data without disrupting network availability, while Data Protection Manager's mag tape compatibility makes long-term archiving expenses low and simplifies adherence to industry or legal data retention mandates.

Most small businesses continue to rely on outdated, tape-centric backup and recovery solutions. In the event of a serious IT breakdown, this can lead to significant income loss because of extended system unavailability and, possibly, lost records. Tape-only protection solutions are vulnerable because tape media is subject to mechanical wear and requires a carefully maintained physical environment. Microsoft recorded a whopping 17% failure rate when using mag tape to archive their own operational servers. Mag tape is also inherently low performance. Because of this, backups call for periodic server downtime, recovery points are often spaced apart by days instead of minutes, and the restore process is time consuming and tricky.

DPM gets around these problems by supporting high-performance, reliable disks for online backup and relegating tape media to long-term storage. The high performance of disks allows ongoing transparent backup, reduces recovery point spacing to as low as 15 minutes, and dramatically cuts restoration time. For improved disk dependability, DPM supports high availability disk clustering and fault-tolerant storage arrays. New features of DPM 2010 include operation with Windows 2008 Hyper-V virtualization and CSV, the option to restore individual files, Database Availability Group support for Exchange 2010, improved operation with SharePoint, and protection during a Live Migration procedure.

How Progent's Microsoft-certified Engineers Can Assist You Deploy System Center Data Protection Manager 2010
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can assist your business to assess the costs and benefits of Data Protection Manager and can help you in all phases of Data Protection Manager integration. Progent can assist you to:

• Determine your recovery goals and create a backup strategy to accomplish them
• Create a cost-effective multi-site network architecture to support Data Protection Manager
• Configure Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint Server to work with DPM 2010
• Configure Storage Pools and Custom Volumes
• Estimate and reserve disk space for backup
• Plan tape library rotation and management
• Install DPM Protection Agents on computers on both sides of your network firewall
• Optimize backup and recovery speed

Other DPM-related Consulting and Support Offered by Progent
Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network experts can help your company to create a resilient network infrastructure that is economical to deploy and easy to manage and that provides maximum system availability and protection. Progent's CISSP-ISSAP certified security experts can help you to create and validate a disaster recovery strategy that is financially realistic for your business, provides security for your vital data, and reduces downtime in the event a catastrophic IT breakdown.

Call or Email Progent to Get Help from a Microsoft-Qualified DPM 2010 Specialist
If you wish to get in touch with Progent about consulting help for System Center DPM 2010 solutions, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.