Microsoft tackles enterprise Windows backup

Storage in the Enterprise This newsletter is sponsored by Overland Storage Study: U.S. Encryption Trends Find out how your peers are protecting their data in this comprehensive study, "2007 Annual Study: U.S. Enterprise Encryption Trends." According to his report IT professionals are seeking out encryption platforms to deploy across the entire network to protect data. Find out more by downloading the report today. Network World's Storage in the Enterprise Newsletter, 10/25/07 Microsoft tackles enterprise Windows backup By Deni Connor Microsoft moved out of backing up the mom-and-pop pizza shop last week with the introduction of the second version of its System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007.  That’s not really a fair assessment of Microsoft data protection product, but until now DPM has been limited in its capabilities. The new version’s support for Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and Microsoft’s Virtual Server 2005 R2 makes it an enterprise candidate for backup. Scheduled to be available in the fourth quarter, DPM can now be used to backup Exchange or SQL Server farms, thus moving it from small and midsize business use into the enterprise-sized business. 25% off DNSstuff Membership! Exclusive offer for Network World Readers. DNSstuff.com is a web application providing expertise and all the tools necessary to ensure that your DNS operates smoothly, efficiently and safely. Only $36/yr Coupon Code: NWW2007NLA Work smart & join today! The new release also includes file-level de-duplication and support for recovering individual e-mails and folders. Microsoft has also added tape management capability to the software. It also is capable of creating as many as 512 Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) – one snapshot every 15 minutes. The company claims that more than 70,000 people participated in the public beta of DPM over the last year. The product was released to manufacturing last week. DPM can support as many as 300 clients. The product costs $573 for a DPM server license. Each application server agent is $426 and each file server agent is $155.   What do you think? Post a comment on this newsletter

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Contact the author: Deni Connor is senior editor for Network World magazine covering storage, archiving and compliance, IT in healthcare, Novell and data center-related issues. E-mail Deni.   This newsletter is sponsored by Overland Storage Study: U.S. Encryption Trends Find out how your peers are protecting their data in this comprehensive study, "2007 Annual Study: U.S. Enterprise Encryption Trends." According to his report IT professionals are seeking out encryption platforms to deploy across the entire network to protect data. Find out more by downloading the report today. ARCHIVE Archive of the Storage in the Enterprise Newsletter. BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007