Download Microsoft's System Center Data Protection Manager 2012

Recently, Microsoft released the Developer preview of Windows 8 operating system. Many people around the world downloaded and started testing the new Windows 8 operating system. Windows 8 Developer preview got many changes. The main change of Windows 8 is the new Metro Interface. Metro Interface is the default interface for all the editions of Windows 8 operating system, irrespective of the device. The new Metro Interface is suitable for those devices which are touch compatible. Metro Interface works excellent with touch screen devices.

Apart releasing the Developers preview of Windows 8 operating system, Microsoft also released Developers preview of Windows 8 Server. Both the Pre-Beta version of Server and Client of Windows 8 were released by Microsoft in the recent Build Conference which held in California. In the next day of Build Conference, Microsoft released the beta version of "System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM).

What is System Center Data Protection Manger

It is a software product from Microsoft, which is designed to help IT professionals to manage the Windows environment. Data Protection Manager is a part of the Microsoft System Center family of products which integrates disk to disk and continuous data protection for reliable recovery of Windows server. Data Protection Manager uses Microsoft's Shadow Copy technology for continuous backups.

How Data Protection Manager works?

It works by delivering centralized backup of branch offices and within the data center by protecting changed files from the byte level to a secondary disk, which is used to back up in tapes or disks. This feature enables business to recover the data rapid and reliable from an easily accessible disk.

Features of the Beta release of System Center Data Protection Manager

As per Microsoft, below are the Twenty five features of System Center Data Protection Manager which are available in the Beta release of 2012 version.

1) Centralized Management (Built on the Ops Manager platform)
2) Centralized Monitoring and Troubleshooting
3) Remote Administration
4) Remote Recovery
5) Push To Resume Backups
6) Role Based Access
7) Continued Best of Breed Application Support
8) SharePoint Item Level recovery without restoring Content DB
9) SQL FILESTREAM support
10) SharePoint RBS support
11) Hyper-V Item Level Restore from a DPM running in a VM
12) Faster protection of VMs on stand-alone Hyper-V servers.
13) Fresh DPM 2012 Console User Interface
14) Data Source Extensibility Framework
15) Certificate Based Protection of non-AD machines
16) File Server
17) SQL Servers
18) Hyper-V servers
19) Clustered Data sources
20) Secondary DPM servers.
21) Tape Enhancements:
22) Enhanced Granular Media Co-Location
23) Tape Reliability Enhancements
24) Multiple DPM DB databases share a single remote SQL Instance
25) Upgrade support from DPM 2010

How to Download Beta Version of System Center Data Protection Manager 2012

If you are an IT professional and interested to test the Beta Version of Data Protection Manager, you can Download the Beta version of DPM from the official website of Microsoft. The Download will be in a Zip file with 2GB of data.

Download Microsoft's System Center Data Protection Manager 2012

What is System Center Data Protection Manger

How Data Protection Manager works?

Features of the Beta release of System Center Data Protection Manager

How to Download Beta Version of System Center Data Protection Manager 2012

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