Last month, Microsoft released the first two products in the System Center 2010 wave: the management suite System Center Essentials 2010, and the backup-and-recovery-focused Data Protection Manager ...

Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager is now better suited for virtual environments, Linux servers, SQL Server support and provides more consistency. With the recent release of the ...

While this member of the System Center family hasn't received as thorough a makeover as others, such as System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012, there are some valuable improvements in this version ...

Microsoft’s Data Protection Manager moves toward backup, but leaves some machines unprotected Microsoft has made its first attempt at tending to enterprisewide data protection. In our Clear Choice ...

Microsoft issued a beta of System Center Data Protection Manager 2012, with a new centralized console and backup of generic data sources. The top new feature is the centralized console, according to ...

Announced a year ago and released to public beta in April, Microsoft DPM is designed to integrate disk-to-disk and near-continual data protection into the Redmond, Wash., company&s server platforms.

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...