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DPM 2007 in the heterogeneous enterprise

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One question that I hear frequently is “I love what Microsoft is doing for backup of my Windows servers.  But what about my non-Windows servers?”  Similarly, one might ask “What about heterogeneous environments?“ A different question that is often confused with these is “Is DPM enterprise-ready?”  To separate these questions, let me address the latter with the … Read more

DPM 2007 Launch – Day 4

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As we come into the home stretch, I have three speaking engagements today and three more tomorrow. When asked why I don’t share these with other speakers, my answer is two-fold: 1) I came to Microsoft 23 months ago for DPM2007, so I want to put my own fingerprints all over this event.  That may … Read more

DPM 2007 Launch – Day 3

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We are half-way through Launch Week … and things are continuing to stay exciting. The booth is continually swamped – and while this will sound bias, it is one the busiest booths in the Microsoft pavilion.  Yeah, I know that’s like saying that my kid was the best actor in the school play.  Yes, I … Read more

Am headed to Barcelona – DPM 2007 is launching !!!

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DPM 2007 has RTM’d … and announced at Storage Networking World in Dallas in October. DPM 2007 is generally available this month (November) – making its way to distributors, channel partners and Microsoft licensing vehicles as we speak. But now comes my favorite part … the DPM 2007 product launch.  I have been looking forward … Read more

DPM 2007 at SQL Server Users’ Conference — 2007 PASS Community Summit

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I just finished a very busy week at the SQL Server Users’ Conference (http://www.sqlpass.org/). We started with the first public viewing of an early DPM 2007 “Release Candidate” (yes, you heard right) for around 2000 customers, partners and vendor-folk… where we demonstrated DPM protecting SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008.  It was very cool, … Read more