Announced a year ago and released to public beta in April, Microsoft DPM is designed to integrate disk-to-disk and near-continual data protection into the Redmond, Wash., company&s server platforms.

We setup System Center: Data Protection Manager on a Gigabit Ethernet network consisting of Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2003 R2 servers, as well as virtualized Windows 7 and Windows XP SP4 clients.