Storage Management
Most storage systems offer some level of management software. For large SMB to Mid Market and Enterprise customers where there are multi vendor or multi site storage systems we recommend implementing IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager which is the market leader in Storage Management.
Why storage management?
- Users are faced with a tidal wave of data growth and need next-generation solutions for protecting, retaining and managing all this information.
- Storage management is often the single largest item in the IT budget – users need to manage more data with less infrastructure and management.
- Data is being lost due to disasters, hardware failures, viruses, and user errors - users need automated data protection and a unified data recovery platform.
- Some backups are unreliable, some are not being done and some are lost; backups are consuming too many hardware and people resources – users need an automated, policy-based solution that minimizes resources.
The majority of businesses know that they must regularly back up their valuable data due to the increasing compliance requirements and regulations enforced in this information driven world. Every day significant IT resource is wasted backing up and duplicating this information and ultimately leading to rising storage costs.
The sharing of internal information is a key challenge for many large organisations, and unless information can be easily located and retrieved there is duplication of effort, compliance issues, confusion and embarrassment.
Our consultants can assist in reviewing your present situation and assist in providing a roadmap of where you want to be in the future. Through automation we take away the hassle of backing up and archiving information which will reduce your storage costs and keep information readily accessible to end users at all times.
We can even provide you these capabilities through an outsourced option allowing you to concentrate on you businesses core focus rather than IT provision. We will ensure that you receive 24 x 7 support, high speed connectivity and the highest level of security at an affordable price.
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is ideally suited for the enterprise and upper-middle market customers where data availability, transformed into business-valued information, is critical to the business. These customers depend on data to gain competitive advantage, improve internal and external customer service levels, meet data retention mandates, reduce cost, improve revenue, & increase overall ROI.
WHAT? - Value Proposition
- Reduce infrastructure
- Reduce operational expenses
- Improve application availability and reduce downtime
- Reduce risk associated with data loss
- Support compliance initiatives
- Manage their data throughout its lifecycle
- Future-proof their data management processes
WHO? - Overview
- TSM delivers data protection for over 13 different platforms.
- TSM is a proven, solid solution that has been in the market for over 15 years; more than 20,000 customers
- Already protecting millions of computers world wide.
- Tivoli storage management products have more patents than all of our storage competitors combined.
- Ninety-six of the world's top 100 financial institutions rely on Tivoli storage solutions.
- Dedicated and very skilled Tivoli consultants able to assist with Storage strategy
HOW? - Competitive Differentiators of TSM
Competitive Advantages:
- Built-in data deduplication of disk-based data improves recovery times and reduces capacity requirements.
- Broad support for operating system, server and storage platforms provides comprehensive and accurate recovery of mission-critical data.
- Advanced integration with Windows, VMware and NetApp environments.
- Tape efficiencies including collocation, and reclamation reduce costs.
- Fully integrated solutions for advanced protection and recovery of databases and ERP systems, storage systems and e-mail servers.
- Bare Machine Recovery, Disaster Recovery Planning, HSM/Space Management options available.
- IBM DB2 database technology is fully integrated to simplify management and doubles capacity from previous versions. Performance and availability are also greatly enhanced.
- Supports up to 1 billion objects in a single server.
- Built-in reporting and near real-time monitoring improve visibility and reduce management costs.
- Unique progressive incremental data capture technology significantly improves performance and resource efficiencies.
- Tight integration with TSM FastBack to provide advanced protection and near-instant recovery of Windows servers in the data center and remote offices; and integrates with Tivoli CDP for Files to protect desktop and laptop systems.
IBM Tivoli Fastback - Recovery for critical Windows and Linux servers
Helping provide seamless data protection with IBM Tivoli Fastback -For all types of organization IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager FastBack gives you to power to quickly recover any Microsoft® Windows® or Linux® server data, anywhere in the organization, from any point in time.
- Augment Tivoli Storage Manager to provide enhanced protection and recovery of business critical Windows application servers in the data center;
- Automate and consolidate the protection of data in remote and branch offices
- Provide cost-effective comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery solution for small and mid-sized organizations.
- Protect and recover data for critical Windows applications, including Microsoft Exchange, SQL, SAP, DB2 and Oracle, seamlessly at the block level while eliminating the need for traditional backup windows.
- Recover the data you need – a single file or an entire volume – within a couple of minutes; restoration of the data occurs in the background.
- Meet data protection and retention requirements on a per-application basis by scheduling automated backup operations as often as needed, up to true Continuous Data Protection (CDP).
- Reduce the amount of data at risk between backups to as little as the last transaction and reduce the time it takes to recover any amount of data to just a couple of minutes, following almost any type of data loss.
- Perform non-disruptive snapshots in the background; the lightweight agent is an excellent backup solution for Virtual Machines (VM).
- Integrate easily with Tivoli Storage Manager as part of a Unified Recovery Management platform for the entire enterprise
- Improve visibility into your data management environment with integrated Tivoli Common Reporting
- Operating systems supported: Windows and Linux