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Microsoft to ship data protection server soon

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HYDERABAD: Microsoft will start shipping its newly developed disk-to-disk data storage product Data Protection Server '06 sometime in mid 2005. The product, which is through with the final development stage, has been developed by Microsoft's Enterprise Storage Group.





"It is a collaborative effort of the developer team in Hyderabad and in Redmond and has been designed with an idea that disk will increasingly be the primary medium onto which data has to be moved for quick recovery," said Microsoft India Development Center (MIDC) MD Srini Koppolu. He, however, declined to give exact details of the launch date saying that the date and time for shipping the product has not yet been finalized.



According to him, while tapes are the primary medium for data protection today, with the changing technology, disks are becoming more and more cheaper. "In order to leverage this technology change, we have come up with a highly efficient model and optimized the way how users can easily backup and restore data," he added. The company is presently showing the product to select customers for technical preview.



Microsoft believes that conventional methods of storage are slow, and error prone. Servers are becoming consolidated with higher performance levels. More data is produced, so time to back up additional data is not shrinking and number of windows to take back ups are not enough. This creates a need for the model that can allow movement of data from the production server to a server on which backups are captured within a lesser time frame and more efficiently.



The company claims that with disk-to-disk storage the whole back up and Windows problems would be removed, as it is much faster than disk to tape transfer. "It also allows users to back up incremental changes rather than the full version whenever back ups are being taken. Then one can create a catalogue where, we can recreate a full version from the incremental and then leisurely move that to tapes. In the disk space model, what you can do is to take backups with greater frequency. And most of the time, restoration happens on the disk drive, which is again a better model from the performance point of view and user interface point of view," Koppolu explained.



Added MIDC storage division director, Seetharaman Harikrishnan, "We are supporting file servers to be stored on disk, in our first version that could be shipped sometime in 2005. And subsequently, in version II, the idea is to support exchange servers, SQL servers, and other data sources."

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