Microsoft and Iron Mountain
Enable Cloud
Backup and
Recovery
By David Hill, Mesabi Group
Illustration by Anastasia Vasilakis
BOTTOM LINE
Moving data backup to
the cloud is an ever-growing trend. The ability
to do this transparently
through the use of the
combined Microsoft DPM
2007 and Iron Mountain
CloudRecovery™ solution
is an easy way to get high-quality and cost-effective
backup storage for disaster recovery.
and
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ter Data Protection Manager (DPM)
2007. This provides a powerful new option
Data backup to the cloud eases
costs, administrative burden
MICROSOFT AND IRON MOUNTAIN RECENTLY ANNOUNCED A CLOUD-BASED BACKUP
for business customers to perform data
recovery over the Internet.
To put this into context, last month Microsoft
announced the addition of Service Pack 1 (SP1) to DPM
2007, the backup and recovery software solution that is
part of the company’s ongoing strategy to cover more of
its customers’ business requirements with Microsoft software functionality. DPM 2007 SP1 offers a number of new
