Friday, 23 April 2010

Microsoft System Center DPM 2010

Along with the announcement of DPM 2010, Microsoft also announced the release of System Center DPM 2010, and this couldn’t come soon enough for us Hyper-V R2 advocates!

System Center Data Protection (DPM) 2010, delivers unified data protection for Windows servers such as SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint, Virtualisation and file servers -- as well as Windows desktops and laptops. Microsoft has re-engineered DPM 2010 to be more scalable so that both midsize and enterprise-class organisations can take advantage of it.

Key additions in DPM 2010 include:

  • The ability for roaming laptops to get centrally managed policies around desktop protection, so that your laptop data is protected, whether you are connected to the corporate network or remote
  • Enhanced virtualisation protection, including Hyper-V R2 LiveMigration scenarios running on clustered shared volumes and the ability to recover single-files from within host-based backups
  • Additional protection and recovery capabilities for Windows application servers like SQL Server, Exchange or SharePoint
  • Native site-to-site replication for disaster recovery to either another DPM server or an off-site cloud provider
  • Significant enterprise-scalability increases for deploying DPM in large environments
  • Centrally managed System State and Bare Metal Recovery