Microsoft's announcement last week of availability and pricing for its Data Protection Manager leaves one wanting.
Data Protection Manager now only supports Common Internet File System data. It doesn't support SQL Server or Microsoft Exchange. When it does in the next release – two years from now – it will be able to be used by large enterprises for protecting their Exchange and SQL installations.
What Data Protection Manager does have going for it is self-service. Users can recover files they may have lost themselves without the assistance of IT. It is also a disk-based backup product, which gives users an additional tier of storage to rely on instead of the problem-prone tape.
Microsoft says that Data Protection Manager will be released to manufacturing in the next 30 days. It is priced at $950 for the Data Protection Manager Server and three file servers it protects.
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