How to do Disaster Recovery with DPM 2007 — new streaming video

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For many environments, simply providing reliable backup and recovery of key workloads like SQL Server and Exchange is enough. For larger enterprises, distributed branch-office environments, and those with mandates for off-site protection — DPM 2007 can also be used for multi-tiered data protection to deliver disaster recovery or business continuity preparedness. When Microsoft began looking … Read more

HEROES happen here

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In case you are of the very few IT professionals who haven’t heard yet, Microsoft has an exciting launch coming up next month: Windows Server 2008 SQL Server 2008 Visual Studio 2008 And I am very jazzed to get to attend the global launch event on February 27, 2008 in Los Angeles — manning the … Read more

My Xbox 360 has its own blog

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Everybody is blogging. I’ve been blogging myself (here) at Microsoft for almost a year — with my sincere thanks to all of you who read this. Recently, I started contributing to some larger blogs within Microsoft, including: SYSTEM CENTER – the family of management products from Microsoft that DPM is part of WINDOWS SERVER – … Read more

You gotta get a Home Server!

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My first “home server” was in 1992 – it was NetWare 3.11 and I distinctly remember paying $1,000 for the 1GB 5.25″ full-height SCSI drive that would hold all of my data.  I was working on my CNE certification and wanted some experience at home, while I studied.  I vaguely recall having to go to … Read more

DPM 2007 awarded “Product of the Year” for protecting Virtualized Environments

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For folks that have heard about DPM’s protection capabilities around virtual servers, this will not come as a surprise — but today, DPM 2007 was awarded the Gold as a "Product of the Year" from SearchServerVirtualization.com.   SearchServerVirtualization.com announced the winners of its first annual Products of the Year awards, spanning four categories: Virtualization Platforms … Read more