Data Protection Manager 2010 RC Is Live

The Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 is now one step closer to the final release. The past week, early adopters were given green light to access the Release Candidate Build of Data Protection Manager 2010 via Microsoft Connect. According to the Redmond company, the latest development milestone of DPM 2010 is considered a public release, even though testers still need to sign up on Connect in order to grab it. However, all customers with Windows Live IDs can grab Data Protection Manager 2010 RC and start test driving it immediately.

Customers familiar with the way Microsoft builds its software already know that the Release Candidate milestone is the last stage before release to manufacturing (RTM). The Beta Build of Data Protection Manager was released on September 2009, and the software giant is currently making headway towards final delivery.

System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 is designed to offer unified data protection for Windows servers and clients. Essentially, corporate customers running Windows environments can turn to DPM for backup and recovery capabilities. Microsoft notes that the evolution of DPM 2010 makes sure that customers are able to restore their environments from disk, tape and Cloud.

Jason Buffington, senior technical product manager – System Center, enumerated “some of the highlights of DPM 2010 include:

- Protection of Hyper-V R2, including Live Migration with CSV scenarios and the ability to restore a single file item from within a host-based VM backup;
- Protection of Windows Client machines, while they are on the network, as well as while they are travelling;
- Protection for Exchange Server 2010, SharePoint 2010, and SQL Server 2008 R2;
- New Disaster Recovery capabilities for easier replication from one DPM server to another;
- Self-healing and Auto-Storage-Grow for a “Lights Out” reliable protection solution;
- Auto-protection of new SQL databases and SharePoint farm components.”