This price point helps make enterprise-quality technology affordable to a wider range of businesses. It also allows partners to deliver a solution to their customers that is a fraction of the cost of other proprietary disk-based backup appliances.

This is a great opportunity for smaller companies to get real protection for their valuable business data. A shift is going to happen with DPM, and we are seeing tremendous demand for it already.

This is a great opportunity for smaller companies to get real protection for their valuable business data, ... A shift is going to happen with DPM, and we are seeing tremendous demand for it already.

By joining the Advanced Infrastructure Systems Management competency, Microsoft Solutions Partners will receive tools and resources that will help them audit a customer's existing disaster recovery plan to determine if the existing backup strategy is effective, and identify small to mid-market organizations that are a good candidate for DPM. We will also be releasing online Web-based training and a Project Guide in the coming months.

By joining the Advanced Infrastructure Systems Management competency, Microsoft Solutions Partners will receive tools and resources that will help them audit a customer's existing disaster recovery plan to determine if the existing backup strategy is effective, and identify small to mid-market organizations that are a good candidate for DPM, ... We will also be releasing online Web-based training and a Project Guide in the coming months.

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