Today at the Storage Decisions 2004 conference, Microsoft announced it is entering the disk-based backup and recovery industry with Microsoft Data Protection Server (DPS). DPS is designed to provide robust data protection for the Windows Server System family, reducing complexity and improving operational efficiency for Windows customers. More than 20 storage industry partners today announced their support for Data Protection Server and their intent to work with Microsoft to provide customers with a broad choice of Windows-based storage solutions.
At the storage decisions 2004 conference Bob Mulgia, senior VP of Windows Server said "Data Protection Server has garnered broad industry support because it will help customers of all sizes shrink their recovery time from hours to minutes and drive down the cost of maintaining storage infrastructures."
Microsoft Data Protection Server is currently in beta but is scheduled to be generally available in the second half of 2005.
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