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New product release: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack v6.1.1
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is an advanced continuous data protection and near-instant recovery software solution for business-critical Windows and Linux servers in the data center, remote offices and small- to mid-sized enterprises. Customers use Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack to help reduce the amount of data at risk between backups to almost zero, and to reduce the time to recover from almost any data loss to just seconds. TSM FastBack also includes built-in target-side data deduplication; all of this adds up to reducing the costs of storage, bandwidth and administration. Optional add-ons include Bare Machine Recovery to quickly restore the operating system volume to similar, dissimilar and virtual hardware; and granular recovery of individual e-mail objects from Microsoft Exchange.
On July 30, 2010, IBM is released Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack v6.1.1 which includes data deduplication across FastBack Servers and locations when consolidating remote office backup to a central Tivoli Storage Manager Server. These enhancements further improve backup performance and cut costs, while expanding on FastBack integration with Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a true Unified Recovery Management platform.
Also in this new release are: support for Microsoft Exchange 2010, including granular e-mail object recovery in TSM FastBack for Microsoft Exchange; doubling the scalability of the FastBack repository; extending near-instant restore capability to Linux volumes; and many other performance and ease-of-use improvements.
For more information, please visit http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/storage/storage-mgr-fastback/
Analyst Paper: Evaluating IBM's SVC and TPC for Server Vitalization
Many of Evaluator Group's user clients are now migrating applications from stand-alone, single application servers to virtualized servers. As IT administrators move forward with such projects, they can encounter a number of unknowns. In this white paper, John Webster, analyst at Evaluator Group, looks at IBM's approach to aligning the storage environment with critical applications running on virtualized servers using IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) for heterogeneous storage virtualiztion and IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) for Storage Resource Management (SRM). You'll see why Evaluator Group believes that server virtualization creates a new set of cases to be made for implementing storage virtualization technologies and SRM tools before, during, and after migrating critical applications.
Customer Video: Integrated Service Management for Smart Virtualization
In order to reap the full benefits of a virtualized environment, Integrated Service Management is key. IBM customers speak about the benefits they have realized by using IBM software to manage virtualization. Benefits include, dynamically migrating servers seamlessly; minimizing the amount of equipment and electricity being used; and deploying and redeploying servers in minutes.
Srvc Mgmt in action article: Virtualize Storage with IBM for an Enhanced Infrastructure
White Paper: Managing Virtualized Storage Environments with IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
This document provides a summary of how IBM® Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center supports the IBM System Storage® SAN Volume Controller. This information is intended to describe the management capabilities of
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center in a virtualized storage configuration.
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ISM Jam: IBM Information Archive: Next Generation Information Retention Solution
Abstract: IBM Information Archive is the next-generation information retention solution designed as a universal archiving repository for all types of content to help midsize and enterprise clients reduce cost, manage risk and address a complete set of information retention needs - business, legal, or regulatory. This highly versatile, cloud-ready, smart business system can be a valuable asset for businesses who need to meet regulatory compliance mandates that govern the retention of information assets in non-eraseable, non-rewriteable formats while at the same time preserving data in an environment that will allow quick search and retrieval when required.
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Helping provide seamless data protection and recovery for critical Windows and Linux servers
Learn how IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack provides a complete data protection and recovery solution for mission-critical applications, both in the data center and in remote or branch offices. Read the data sheet
IBM Provides Holistic Approach to Data Reduction
"We're storing and using more data than ever before. The volume of data is growing exponentially, government regulations are expanding and competitive pressures are increasing - forcing us to retain more of our data for longer periods of time. But our budgets are flat or being cut. And as we become more dependent on digital information, the costs of losing any of it are increasingly painful. The bottom line, of course, is that we need to do a better job of managing our data assets, and as these assets grow and our budgets shrink, we need to do more with less. So we need smarter solutions." - stated by one storage administrator.
Storage administrators are on the front lines of the "Tidal Wave of Data" battle. Some of the challenges from data growth that administrators are struggling with include:
- It takes longer to perform backups; often not completing within "backup window" allowances; some data is not being adequately protected
- It takes longer to perform recoveries; increased downtime equals lost revenue opportunity; data that isn't protected can't be recovered
- Can't keep buying more storage; running out of floor space / electrical & cooling capacity; administration and management costs are exploding
- New data sources are complicating the problems; new applications coming on-line; mergers and acquisitions are increasing the number of supported systems
IBM can help build a dynamic storage management infrastructure that will enable you to cope with all of these challenges. To learn more, please visit the Data Reduction Solutions page
New Demos/Videos
Replay: ISM JAM - How Unified Recovery Management Can Cut Your Costs and Improve Service Levels
Protecting and ensuring recoverability of data across today's diverse and distributed enterprises can be complex and costly, and usually involves deploying point solutions from several vendors.
Taking a more comprehensive, unified approach to managing data - recovering any data, anywhere in the organization, from laptop to mainframe, from a single console - can not only reduce your capital and operating costs, but also provide enhanced application availability, leading to improved IT service levels.
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Register at: http://www.servicemanagementcenter.com/main/pages/IBMRBMS/OMSA/showcollateral.aspx?oid=74783
White Papers
- Managing the tidal wave of data with IBM Tivoli storage management solutions: This white paper describes how IBM Tivoli storage management solutions can help organizations build dynamic storage infrastructures that scale to meet evolving business requirements by addressing unified recovery management, storage virtualization, and storage management.
- Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Storage Optimizer - An Introduction and Exploration: Question: What is the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Storage Optimizer, how does it work and who is it for? Answer: This white paper provides an introduction to the Storage Optimizer feature made available in Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Standard Edition version 4 release 1.
- Data Growth Demands Proactive Data Management
Data growth is one of the most significant challenges - and opportunities - facing organizations today. New forms of data, the retention of additional detail for analysis, increasing pressure for high availability of more of the data, regulatory and security requirements - all are contributing to substantial rises in data volume. Organizations that learn to leverage the explosion of important new information sources can gain dramatic competitive advantage as others lag. Unfortunately, the budget for the acquisition of additional storage is not easy to come by, especially in the current financial environment. Worse yet, over its life, managing storage effectively may cost 3-10 times what it cost to procure. Other costs derive from data growth's impact on systems performance and organizational governance. Read this white paper from IT Market Strategy
- Information Archive White Paper ESG
Just Launched: The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager wiki is available for you to share your experiences and learn from others in the user community. Visit the wiki for important information about the V6.1 release.
Read the Article: IBM webcast pinpoints disaster recovery challenges, myths and pitfalls
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