Microsoft's beta for its first backup server is out, with the aim of making backups smoother and recoveries faster. But to achieve success it still needs the support of the big tape backup players. Microsoft on Wednesday released the beta of its first heavyweight data backup product, Data Protection Server.
The beta of Data Protection Server, or to use its full name Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM), has been in trials with a small number of companies since the autumn, but is now available for general download.
Ben Matheson, DPM group product manager, said the goal is to "take something that is high-end today and make it mainstream." The software, which is due for production in the second half of 2005, has not been priced yet, though Metheson said it is "not unreasonable to assume it could be under £1000, or even $1000."
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