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Microsoft, Iron Mountain Enable Cloud Backup & Recovery: Page 3 of 3

Moving data backup to the cloud is likely to become an ever-growing trend for both cost and easing of the administrative burden of managing secondary remote storage. Being able to do this transparently through the use of existing backup-and-restore software is very desirable. First, customers can continue to use their existing investments in DPM, which includes not only cost but also the working knowledge invested in an ongoing process. Secondly, customers receive an easy way to get high-quality and cost-effective backup storage for disaster recovery purposes. Overall, we believe that the combined Microsoft DPM 2007 and Iron Mountain CloudRecovery solution offers a good value and is likely a sign of things to come.

David Hill is principal of Mesabi Group LLC, which focuses on helping organizations make their complex storage, storage management, and interrelated IT infrastructure decisions easier by making the choices simpler and clearer to understand.