Backup and recovery are essential functions for an intelligent data storage management solution that can easily grow with your increasing data storage needs. Today's business needs can be met using the various types of backups and recovery strategies that IBM offers. These range from progressive incremental backup of files, to sub-file backup, to volume level backup, to backup sets, to open file backups, to on-line backup of databases and applications, to bare machine recovery backups.
Backup and Recovery
IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager is a family of products that helps businesses manage and control the “information explosion” by delivering a single point of control and administration for storage management needs. This advanced, highly scalable product helps increase the efficiency of your IT operations and helps cut costs related to storage management by providing a wide range of data protection, recovery management, movement, retention, reporting and monitoring capabilities using policy-based automation.
The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager's backup and recovery solution is a centralized, comprehensive solution that employs smart data movement and smart data store technology that makes backups and restores as fast, flexible and low-impact as possible. The IBM Tivoli suite of storage products supports more than a dozen OS platforms, a variety of network connectors and more than 500 storage devices.
Tivoli wins CRN's 2011 Channel Champions Award
IBM was named 2011 CRN Channel Champion as the top vendor in the Backup & Recovery Software category. CRN wrote, "IBM Tivoli significantly outpaced its rivals in technical and support satisfaction to win the Backup & Recovery Software category. It had a particularly strong showing in the areas of product quality and reliability, pre- and post-sales support and scalability."
- IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
- Provides advanced Unified Recovery Management solutions that limit the amount of data at risk of loss, and reduces the time to recover following nearly any data loss event
- Provides automated data lifecycle management to help reduce overall storage and administration costs
- Can manage up to 4 billion data objects in a single Tivoli Storage Manager Server
- Built-in data reduction/data de-duplication technologies, disaster recovery with client and metadata replication best-of-breed scalability and reliability, and simplified management help to reduce costs, improve service levels, and mitigate risks
- Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments:
- Offloads backup processes from virtual guest resources
- Flexible recovery options – file, volume or VM image, from a single-pass backup
- Automatic discovery and protection of new VMs
- Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack:
- Advanced continuous data protection and rapid recovery solution for critical Windows and Linux application servers
- Simplified, flexible, cost-effective protection of virtual environments
- Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager:
- Enables fast & frequent protection of critical applications to limit data loss without disruption to operations
- Supports instant recovery capabilities in IBM System Storage
- IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery
- A bundle of 10 Storage Manager products. Use the right tool for each data protection and recovery job without worrying about individual product licenses.
- White paper: Advanced Data Recovery for Mid-Sized Companies
- White paper: Effective Storage Management for Cloud Computing
- White paper: Leverage the IBM Tivoli advantages in storage management (PDF, 959KB)
- White paper: Reduce your data storage footprint and tame the information explosion
- White paper: Simplify Remote Office Data Recovery
- Solution Sheet: Migrate to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager easily and confidently
