Kurt Shintaku's Blog

There are lots of reasons to be excited about DPM 2010.  Here are a few:

• Virtualization folks get item-level restore from within VM backups, as well as support for LiveMigration (CSV) scenarios for Hyper-V R2
• SharePoint folks lose the need for a Recovery Farm and gain auto-protection of new content databases
• SQL Server administrators get auto-protection at a SQL instance level, huge scalability increases and a self-service restore utility for DBAs
• Exchange managers get support for Exchange 2010, including DAG configurations, as well as CCR/SCR
• Windows client users get protection and recovery for remote laptops, with protection online and offline
• Disaster Recovery planners get lots of new options around multi-site chaining and protection between sites
• And everyone gets new enterprise scalability, reliability and manageability enhancements

For more information, check out these resources:

• What is new in DPM 2010 on www.microsoft.com/DPM
• The DPM product team blog on the 2010 beta release
• The DPM product manager’s blog (mine)

The System Center folks just produced a video going over the changes made to the upcoming release of the RC of DPM2010.  Check it out:

• WEBCAST: Get Ready for Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 Release Candidate
  http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032437133&CountryCode=US