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IBM Tivoli Flash Copy Manager

Advanced Protection and Restoration of DB2, Oracle, SAP, MSSQL, & Exchange –- duration varies from 2-6 weeks.

  • This services offering will help you provide fast application-aware backups and restores leveraging advanced snapshot technologies in IBM Storage Systems. This consulting engagement provides assistance in performing the planning, implementation and information transfer.

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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for FastBack

QuickStart Services 4 days

  • This QuickStart services offering helps you to quickly install an IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack server for centralized management and control resulting in a fully automated, highly reliable ROBO(Remote Office/Branch Office) setup.

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IBM Multiplex Backup for VMWare

Services Offering – duration varies

  • This services offering will provide multi threaded backup using TSM for VE for your larger VMware environments by intelligent scheduling of full and incremental VM backups. Backups will be rotated between full and incremental VM backups to efficiently to balance your backup workload while maximizing utilization of your backup infrastructure.

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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager with Butterfly Backup Migrator

Migration Services – duration varies

  • This service offering will help upgrade/migrate your existing environment to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager version 6.3. This consulting engagement provides assistance in performing the upgrade/migration planning, configuration and information transfer.

Migration Services Overview – duration 80 hours

  • To achieve real savings while consolidating existing data protection systems to a Tivoli platform, it is essential to migrate long term data quickly. Migration can be a complex process, causing customer concerns around data validity, security and compliance. Using the IBM Butterfly software and methodology overcomes these difficulties and enables a cost effective and risk free transition.

Upgrade Services – duration varies

  • This service offering will help you upgrade your existing IBM Tivoli Storage Manager environment to version 6.3. This consulting engagement provides assistance in performing the upgrade/migration planning, configuration and information transfer.

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Workshop – duration varies from 3-10 days

  • This service offering takes a prescriptive approach to plan for data migration from your existing backup environment to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and understand what resource requirements are needed, project duration, and capture the essential migration building blocks. This consulting engagement focuses on leading the migration planning and data discovery, resulting in a detailed migration plan and project plan.

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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

Disaster Recovery Implementation
Implementation Services 5 days

  • This services offering is for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager customers needing to simplify and shorten their Recovery Time Objective during disaster recovery operations, IBM will install and configure HADR utilizing Tivoli Storage Manager Server and ProtecTIER virtual tape library during a Disaster Recover incident.

Upgrade/Migration Services 5 Days

  • This services offering will help you upgrade your existing IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager (TSM) environment to version 6.1; or migrate your current TSM Server version 5.3 or above to a new server platform with a similar Operating System. This consulting engagement provides assistance in performing the TSM upgrade/migration planning, configuration and knowledge transfer.

QuickStart Services 10 Days

  • Tivoli Services experts provide 10 days onsite to plan, install and configure Tivoli Storage Manager 6.1 in a test environment. The IBM Tivoli Services consultant will also provide skills transfer to the customer IT staff. This flyer highlights the proven and effective offering available to customers to ensure their deployment and usage of their Tivoli solution is successful and is reaping the business benefits in a timely manner.

HealthCheck Services 5 Days

  • This five day service offering provides a health check of your current IBM Tivoli Storage Manager environment. It will help ensure that your backups, disaster recovery plans and data retention policies are operating effectively and efficiently, meeting your growth and performance requirements and are in line with IBM’s guidance for best practices.

Backup and Restore of MaxDB
QuickStart - 5 days

  • Prepares you for the successful implementation of backup/restore processes for MaxDB databases by installing and configuring the solution in your pilot environment. It also provides transfer of information for you to be able to deploy MaxDB backup/restore into your operational environment.

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IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

Value Pack Foundation Services 5 days

  • This offering is designed to help you quickly get value from Tivoli Storage Productivity Center so you can realize a return on your investment. Our experienced consultants will help you use and interpret reports as well as the alerting capabilities native to all Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Products.

Value Pack Performance and Reporting Services 5 days

  • This offering is designed to help take you to the next step in realizing the value from Tivoli Storage Productivity Center. It will help you leverage experienced IBM consultants and IBM best practices to measure and report on storage subsystem performance and well as provide detailed analysis of file and database space usage and trending.

Upgrade 4 days

  • This service offering is designed to help you upgrade your existing installation of the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center 3.x environment. Our highly qualified consultants will upgrade DB2, Agent Manager, and TotalStorage Productivity Center 3.x to the 4.1 level to help you maximize the return on your investment in your environment.

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QuickStart 5 days

  • This service offering is designed to help you to quickly install and configure the Standard Edition of IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center. Our highly qualified consultants will install Data, Disk, and Fabric components in a limited environment so you can begin achieving your storage management objectives and realize the return on your investment.

Implementation Services 15 days

  • This service offering is designed to help you to quickly install and configure the Standard Edition of IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center. Our highly qualified consultants will install Data, Device, and Replication components so you can begin achieving your storage management objectives and realize the return on your investment as quickly as possible.

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Quick Start Usage Enablement 2-5 days

  • This service offering is designed to help you become proficient at using Tivoli Storage Productivity Center including the new features introduced in version 5.1. This consulting engagement provides skill transfer to your staff using your own Tivoli Storage Productivity Center implementation to take you through everything from basic concepts to creating your own custom Tivoli Storage Productivity Center reports using Cognos.

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Storage Usage Chargeback Tool 5-10 days

  • This service offering leverages use of the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center database to provide reporting for chargeback based on actual data usage. The tool gives the ability to charge back based on usage at the operating system level while correlating to backend storage devices to allow billing based on storage tier as well. This consulting engagement involves ensuring your existing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center implementation is in working order collect the data needed and then implementing the reporting tool along with minor custom changes required.

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Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
Consulting Offering – duration varies

  • This offering will include the consulting services and implementation of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication manages copy services in storage environments. Copy services are features that are used by storage systems DS8000, SVC, and XIV to configure, manage, and monitor data-copy functions. Copy services include IBM FlashCopy, Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, and Metro Global Mirror. Basic HyperSwap® is a copy services solution for z/OS® version 1.9 and later. If a volume at site one fails, Basic HyperSwap® automatically directs application I/O to the mirrored volumes in site two.

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SAN Volume Controller

QuickStart 5 days

  • This service offering is designed to help you to quickly install and configure the SAN Volume Controller in a limited environment. Our highly qualified consultants will install one (1) eight (8)-node SVC cluster at a single site so you can begin achieving your storage management objectives and realize the return on your investment as quickly as possible.

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Storage Management

  • FREE Differences Web Based Training and Web Seminars
  • IBM Tivoli Implementation Foundations Skills Web Based Training
  • In-Depth Lab Based Classroom Training

A comprehensive list of Storage Management related courses can be found on the Tivoli Software Training site.

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