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Data Protection Manager 2007 is a member of the Microsoft System Center family of management products, which are designed to help IT Professionals manage their Windows Server infrastructure. DPM 2007 sets a new standard for Windows backup and recovery—delivering continuous data protection for Microsoft application and file servers to a seamlessly integrated secondary disk and tape solution on the DPM server. DPM enables rapid and reliable recovery through advanced technology for enterprises of all sizes.
Microsoft designed DPM 2007 to provide the best backup and most reliable restore for Windows Server applications.
Focused on the primary Microsoft server workloads, DPM 2007 was specifically built to protect and recover SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint Portal Server, Microsoft Virtual Server, as well as Windows file services. In addition, DPM 2007 blends the best aspects of continuous data protection (CDP) with traditional tape backup.
Protection and Recovery for Microsoft Applications
DPM 2007 continuously protects the core Microsoft server workloads to a DPM server or appliance, which then provides disk-based recovery and tape-based, long-term archival storage for a complete data protection and recovery solution.
Setting a New Standard for Data Protection in Windows Environments
- Continuous Data Protection for Windows Application and File Servers DPM protects core Windows Server workloads by continuously capturing data changes with application-aware byte-level agents, providing an easy-to-manage and robust disk/tape back-end platform, and one-click lossless application recovery.
- Rapid and Reliable Recovery DPM enables IT administrators and end-users to easily recover data in minutes from easily accessible disk instead of locating and restoring from less-reliable tapes.
- Advanced Technology for Enterprises of All Sizes DPM brings together the best aspects of CDP real-time protection with traditional tape backup/restore to provide a comprehensive disk-to-disk-to-tape data recovery solution. Combined with Microsoft Windows Server technology, DPM 2007 provides a technically advanced and comprehensive data protection solution for the most demanding Windows environments—from the SMB to the Enterprise.
Meeting Microsoft Customer Needs
Common customer questions about their existing backup:
“Who can help me restore?”
During a crisis, as part of the data recovery, many customers are frustrated when bringing in multiple support organizations to help restore their data. The third-party backup vendor may say that the data restored successfully. But Microsoft Product Support Services may say that the data appears un-mountable. And the systems integrator, the database administrator, or the lone IT professional can be stuck in the middle. Having a Microsoft backup product protecting a Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange Server, or SharePoint platform means that customers don’t have to worry about misunderstandings between vendors when restoring their data.
“My backup product does some things well, but protecting my advanced Exchange configuration isn’t one of them.”
Because third-party backup products try to back up a wide variety of applications, it is very difficult to protect every application well, particularly with flexible applications like mirrored SQL Server 2005 databases or a CCR/LCR cluster under Exchange Server 2007. Microsoft is dedicated to making sure that our backup solution is one of the very best for protecting our application workloads. Microsoft protects our own Enterprise SQL and Exchange servers with DPM, beginning early in the beta process. This helps ensure that no DPM build will go to a customer that Microsoft IT hasn’t signed off as tested in our own demanding production environment.
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