Upcoming New Zealand DPM Events

I made a decision when I started this blog to only use it for original content and not just repost links to other site (which explains why I don't post frequently). However this one is near and dear to my heart. We have some DPM technical events coming up in a couple of weeks, and I'd really like to see these events full. DPM is a really exciting data protection & backup technology for Windows workloads, and this event will be great for learning about the technology behind it. The event details are below, it's a free event so please sign up and get along.

March 2009 - TechNet UNPLUGGED Update

Data Protection Manager 2007 Technical Briefing

This technical briefing focuses on Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 - a member of the Microsoft System Centre family of management products. If you are an IT Administrator that works with Microsoft Technologies or simply looking to understand how Microsoft is addressing the demands from our customers and partners for greater manageability and protection of IT infrastructure - this is the technical briefing for you.
Peter Niven - Microsoft's Regional Specialist on DPM - will be helping attendees understand how DPM can better protect your Microsoft IT investment and elaborate on the wider opportunities to design a more resilient infrastructure. See below for our proposed agenda:

· Why Microsoft developed Data Protection Manager

· Brief DPM 2007 overview

· Specific Workloads (with demos)

o Exchange

o SQL

o SharePoint

o Virtualised environments

· What about non Microsoft Workloads?

· Sizing and Deployment

· Architecting for Disaster Resilience

· Service Pack 1 (released December 2008)

· Roadmap