Microsoft Crafts Backup Plan
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Microsoft Corp. officials said yesterday that the company has spent millions of dollars preparing a version of its Windows operating system without a program for playing digital music and
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(InfoWorld) - In a continuing bid to capture some of the tape-backup market, Microsoft on Wednesday released a beta version of the upgrade to its file-and-application server recovery software, which includes support for a wider range of the company's server products. The product, System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2006 version 2, builds upon aÂ previous version of DPM released last yearÂ that marked the company's first move into the data-protection software market. Version 2 employs a patent-pending technology that constantly monitors data changes and can recover the data with zero loss, Microsoft said. During recovery, the new version can also draw data from tape, a new capability, as well as from disks, Microsoft said. DPM version 2 now supports Microsoft's Exchange Server, SQL Server and Office SharePoint Portal Server, plus the already-supported Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 servers. DPM is a candidate to replace low-end tape products with centralized disk-to-disk backup, the research analyst company Gartner wrote in a November 2005 report. Gartner wrote that Microsoft is expected to make gains in the field because of the wide use of Windows file servers and typically low use of file-protection software among small- to medium-size businesses. DPM Version 2 also employs new replication technology that reduces the input and output necessary to keep large data sets synchronized, Microsoft said. The beta can beÂ downloaded here.
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Protecting the electronic re- cords of your business has gotten easier and more affordable, thanks to services that can make backups of computer files across the Internet.
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Microsoft is preparing a wave of enterprise products, including the long-awaited update to Windows Server.
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Microsoft is researching a fix for a bug in Windows Home Server that could corrupt some files saved with certain applications.
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(Source: Tandberg)  Understand the basic principles of automating data backup, what components are needed and the benefits and costs involved with Data Protection for your organization in this new white paper.
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Currently in beta 2, the all-in-one backup, file-sharing and PC-monitoring device brings simplicity and automation to home networks.
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Blog: I recently had the opportunity to meet with two Microsoft officials to discuss Widows Home Server.  According to Microsoft officials, this new solution could solve all of your backup problems and help you immediately restore your entire system to an earli
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Microsoft releases two free programs designed to help users keep PCs free of viruses and spyware.
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Microsoft's  founder is expected to detail the company's plan for computer management software and announce a long-awaited Windows update tool.
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Western Digital has introduced a new dual-drive shared network storage product for small business.
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It&#39;s a market that could use a shake-up. Backup and recovery still can be too expensive and complex for many small and midsize companies that rely on Windows, but the software is vital to their businesses.
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Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) will drop a much-touted new technology for organizing and storing data when it releases the next version of its Windows operating system as expected in 2006...
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Putting your applications and data in a partition separate from Windows' system files makes your backups faster, and reduces the risk of a virus attack.
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A software patch to protect your system is available from Microsoft.
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Microsoft's Virtual Server 2005 R2 Service Pack 1 handles the new server chips optimized for virtualization, takes regular backups snapshots, is easier to use and costs less, says reviewer Jonathan Hassell.
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Microsoft is now shipping System Center Data Protection Manager 2007, which provides recovery from disk and archive to tape.