IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup and Recovery

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager products provide backup, snapshot, archive, recovery, space management, bare machine recovery and disaster recovery capabilities. They can help protect data on systems of all sizes, including virtual machines, file servers, email, databases, enterprise resource planning (EPR) systems, mainframes and desktops- all from a single environment that expands as data grows.

Tivoli Storage Manager’s scalable architecture and modular design help organizations meet their data protection requirements with efficiency and confidence. It is available in a range of configuration options, including solution bundles, appliances and cloud services.

Tivoli Storage Manager is a family of software offerings designed to help organizations manage and protect their data by simplifying backup administration, delivering more scalable solutions and helping reduce costs related to backup and recovery.

Key Features:

• Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center- Delivers visibility and ease of use, reducing the level of expertise required. Restores are simplified with item-level and near-instant recovery for virtual machines.
• Scalability- Can start small and grow, offering flexible deployment options and can consolidate multiple Tivoli Storage Manager servers for simpler administration of large environments.
• Efficiency- Helps customers save in backup infrastructure costs, usually in storage media, backup servers, data center floor space, power and cooling.
• Deduplication- Enables organizations to handle massive volumes of data during a given backup window. Helps reduce cost by eliminating disk space required for backups and minimizing the impact on client systems.
• Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments- Can backup and restore data residing on virtual machines without negatively impacting applications and operations that also rely on the virtual environment. It is designed to benefit both the virtualization and backup teams with data protection visibility, control and automation.
• IBM components and Patented IBM Technology- Uses premium IBM components and patented IBM technology not found in other backup and recovery software.

Bottom Line:

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is one of most major backup and disaster solutions in the industry. It works very well for large companies because it is capable of handling massive amounts of data and very large recovery requirements. IBM also offers specially priced and packaged entry versions for small to midsized companies.