Over on the System Center Exports blog, Jason Buffington - Senior Technical Product Manager for System Center gives us a look back at the year 2009 for Data Protection Manager and System Center Essentials. Lots of interesting info on the products as well as links galore.
http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenterexperts/archive/2009/12/01/looking-back-and-forward-it-all-seems-to-be-all-managing-virtualization-the-same-way-as-everything-else.aspx
Read the complete post at http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/r0b/archive/2009/12/02/looking-forward-and-back-by-jason-buffington-senior-technical-product-manager-for-system-center.aspx