Data Protection Manager is a decent step for Microsoft

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: NETWORK PRODUCT TEST RESULTS
10/18/05

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In this issue:

* Microsoft's Data Protection Manager moves toward backup, but
leaves some machines unprotected
* Links related to Network Product Test Results
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Today's focus:

Data Protection Manager is a decent step for Microsoft

By Tom Henderson

Microsoft
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/microsoft.html> has
made its first attempt at tending to enterprisewide data
protection. In our Clear Choice Test of the newly released Data
Protection Manager 1.0, we found that it does a respectable job
at data backup/restore, archiving and management, but it's
strictly limited to Microsoft-only machines and does not yet
support Microsoft's full range of applications.

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DPM requires highly patched versions of Windows 2003
<http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default.mspx> server
editions as its base platform. This server becomes the nexus for
most storage-management operations. Each compatible component
(meaning one that is a member of an Active Directory domain and
is running the Active Directory Remote Registry daemon) of a
Microsoft-based network can be readily managed.

DPM cannot be used on 64-bit hardware - even if it can run in
x86 emulation mode - until Microsoft releases a planned service
pack, either as a protected device or as a server. DPM doesn't
support numerous Windows client types, including older versions
of Windows, Windows CE devices, Windows-based mobile phones and
Windows Media Center.

Users of these Windows platforms must use their own primitive
back-up facilities to store data onto a DPM-compatible platform
to be peripherally included in the DPM platform services. The
Windows platform compatibility was surprisingly immature for a
product that would be purchased to address the critical issues
of archiving and availability.

A more egregious omission is that DPM is unable to fully protect
Microsoft Exchange
<http://r.office.microsoft.com/r/rlidExchange?clid=1033> . While
other Microsoft and third-party methods exist to increase
Exchange availability, DPM can't do comparatively simple tasks,
such as taking a snapshot of Exchange, without shutting down the
application.

To read the test results in their entirety, see:
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlprodrev8795>

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limitations: too expensive, difficult to use, and overly taxing
on bandwidth. However ProCurve Networking by HP addresses these
requirements, overcomes the limitations of other solutions, and
gives you valuable insight into LAN performance. Click here to
download HP's Traffic Management Whitepaper
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