Jason Buffington

20-year subject-matter expert in Windows infrastructure, with additional deep specialization in data protection, high availability and disaster recovery/business continuity scenarios. Experienced in product marketing and management, channel readiness and enablement, and enterprise-direct technical sales – across three resellers, two ISVs, and Microsoft.

Is your Tape Drive certified to work with DPM?

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  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 … Read more

New Whitepaper – How to protect Hyper-V with DPM 2010

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      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 … Read more

Jason is headed to Boston to amp up Iron Mountain on DPM and the Cloud

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Hey everyone, We have seen some really good excitement around the partnership of pairing Microsoft’s backup solution for Windows servers with the trusted name of Iron Mountain for offsite vaulting.  But it is about to get better … My friends at Iron Mountain are gearing up for some very cool stuff around Data Protection Manager … Read more