The Cloud, Hybrid Environments and Data Protection: What’s an SMB to do? Join Forrester’s Stephanie Balaouras, Microsoft’s Jason Buffington and i365’s Brandon Farris for an enlightening discussion on how Small and Medium Sized Businesses (SMBs) can plan an effective strategy for addressing today’s complex storage, backup and disaster recovery challenges. This webinar will discuss…
Tag: System Center Data Protection Manager
New Partner Guide to System Center
My friends at Redmond Channel Partner have recently produced a "Microsoft Partners’ Guide to System Center” paper. It covers some interviews related to SCE 2010 and DPM 2010 from me, David Mills (@dmills_ms) and one of our general managers, Zane Adam. Having grown up in this industry as a ‘channel guy’ from an SE…
DPM 2010 Appliance from i365
One of the announcements made at MMS 2010 last week was from i365, a Seagate company, who announced a DPM 2010 appliance. The i365 appliance, called the EVault for Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager or EDPM for short. Here are few cool things about the EDPM appliance: 1) Take it out of the box…
MMS 2010 sessions on DPM 2010 – courtesy of a System Center Influencer
One of the coolest parts of evangelizing a product on behalf of Microsoft is discovering other folks in the IT community that are passionate about the same technologies that I am. Last week, at MMS 2010, I had the opportunity to meet a System Center Influencer named Mike Resseler. Mike is an active…
Now available – DPM Upgrade Advisor
Easily, the 2nd most common question that I hear regarding DPM 2010 is: How do I upgrade to DPM 2010 RTM ? The most common question is “when will it be available”, to which I reply: Evaluation is available now at DPM 2010 Evaluation Software Full Packaged Product will be available by June 1st…
Today is RTM day for DPM and SCE !!!
It is hard to imagine that today has finally arrived. It has been so long in the making, and yet it seems like time flew by. For my friends who may not be as geeky as me – today is the day that we announced that the next generation of both products that I manage…
Backing up the Internet – with DPM 2010
Here in DPM land, we are always excited to hear when an expert customer or partner is able to leverage our technology in new ways. One of our System Center Influencers has figured out how to back up the Internet itself. We’re not exactly sure how, because I thought we cut that feature early in…
DPM Support Services Rock !!
I’ve been with MS for 4.5 years now, having come from some smaller data protection companies like Double-Take and Cheyenne (now part of CA). In those organizations, I always took pride in the personal level of commitment that each one of us had with our customers. One of my happy surprises with joining a larger…
Is your Tape Drive certified to work with DPM?
No – it isn’t certified for DPM. But not for the reasons that you might think. Microsoft does publish a list of devices that have been tested with DPM at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/dpm/cc678583.aspx. However, this does not mean that those devices are certified to work with DPM. It means that they have been tested for use…
New Whitepaper – How to protect Hyper-V with DPM 2010
Over the next several weeks, we are pre-releasing several whitepapers around DPM 2010’s Release Candidate. The first WP to be released is about how to protect Microsoft Virtualization environments – including Hyper-V R2, Hyper-V and Virtual Server 2005 R2 sp1. DPM 2010 is a key part of the Microsoft Virtualization story, as the backup…