Data Protection Manager 2010 Arrives

Available for purchase in June 2010, Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 adds backup protection for live virtual machines (VMs) and more granular item recovery as well as support for the latest Microsoft application servers: Exchange Server 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, and SQL Server 2008 R2. DPM 2010 can be used in conjunction with third-party products to back up heterogeneous systems and backups to the cloud. The new release gives Microsoft a more complete backup solution and may help organizations revamp their backup strategy to eliminate tapes while providing better backup and disaster recovery solutions for Microsoft products.

More Complete Backup Solution

DPM captures backups of application data from Windows servers to disk or tape storage and can do so many times per day, thereby reducing file restore times and the risk of lost data. Improvements in DPM 2010 include the following:

Virtualization. The most recent version of the product, DPM 2007, can back up VMs running under Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, either by backing up individual VMs or by backing up the host. DPM 2010 adds the ability to protect a VM after live migration of the VM to another host by automatically reconfiguring the backup without manual intervention. DPM 2010 can also recover individual files, folders, volumes, and virtual hard disks from a host-level backup; previously, DPM could restore only an entire VM. VMs can be restored to their original location or to an alternate host.