| | Techworld.com - Storage News - Microsoft launches continuous data protection product (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Continuous data protection products come in two iterations: those that record every change to data at the byte level, which allows IT administrators to dial back to any point in time, and those like Microsoft's DPM, which take periodic snapshots of data, allowing recovery back to specific points in time. |
 | | Whichever model is used, continuous data protection dramatically improves how quickly the restoration of data can occur as well as the recovery point objectives when compared to traditional incremental or full backups, said Brian Babineau, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. |
 | | Babineau described Microsoft's DPM and other continuous data protection products as simply "another feature function in the backup world." While those products now appear as a separate market, over time large vendors will add the feature to their existing backup products. |
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