DPM Licensing

It was recently published an amazing article about DPM licensing… So many customers come to me asking me all of these questions regarding licensing, and because on my role we don’t deal with that we always end up kind of passing the question to other people in Microsoft…

With this article from the so well known Jason Buffington my life and others is easier now on these tricky subjects…

A small summary is here, however if you want to know the full story please visit Jason’s Article:

If you already have ECAL, then you already have the Client licenses for DPM 2010 and can begin protecting your Windows client machines (and probably not have to renew whatever third-party backup software is currently backing up your workstations).

If you already have the System Center SMSE or SMSD suites, then you can protect your Windows application, file and virtualization servers because you already own Enterprise licenses for DPM. See money saving note above.

And if you are a midsized organization that has been excitedly looking forward to SC Essentials 2010, then you will soon be able to purchase the SC Essentials Plus suites for both your clients and your servers.

I hope this was helpful…