Effective ‘unified recovery management’ can help you reduce administrative costs, make faster and smarter decisions, and improve quality of service for your IT users and customers.
Protecting data from accidental or malicious loss, and ensuring timely recoverability, have become extremely complex challenges in recent years. Your data recovery management plan needs to take this complexity into account. For example, there are many different operating system platforms, application types and storage technologies. Important data is distributed in many locations: the data center, user desktops, remote/branch offices, home offices and mobile computers. Different things can go wrong: lost file; corrupt database; virus/hacker attack; crashed disk; system failure; local or regional disaster.
Your solution needs to support all the different pieces in your infrastructure and all the different applications that your users and customers rely on. Recovering a single file or email is a lot different than restoring a disk volume or an entire system. For example, mirroring and replication are great technologies for recovering from a system-level failure or disaster; but they are horrible for file-level problems like accidental deletions and corrupt databases, since the contents of the replica system will mimic the production system where the problem started.
And you need to think about applying policies that will allow you to balance costs against business needs. Some applications and data are more important than others, and demand greater levels of protection – both in terms of Recovery Point Objectives (RPO – how much data you willing to lose) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO – how long can you be down), as well as the utilization of physical and personnel resources. And also you want to manage the entire data protection and recovery infrastructure from a single administrative interface.
Given this enormous complexity, finding a single solution to cover all your recovery management needs can be a huge challenge. Even at IBM, we offer a number of different products that address different pieces of this puzzle.
The difference at IBM is that we tie all of our solutions together under a single, Unified Recovery Management interface – the Tivoli Storage Manager Admin Center – that let’s you manage your entire data protection and recovery management infrastructure from a single administrative portal.
- IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
Provides fast application-aware backups and restores leveraging advanced snapshot technologies in IBM storage systems.
- IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
Automated data protection, data reduction and unified recovery management solution for a wide range of systems, storage, applications and data.
- IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition
Delivers an integrated data-protection solution for large enterprises, including large library support, disaster recovery functions, automated scripts and reporting.
- IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack
Advanced block-level continuous data protection and near-instant restore for any Microsoft Windows or Linux server data anywhere in the organization, from any point in time.
- IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Workstations
Automates the continuous data protection of desktop and laptop systems, with centralized management of thousands of clients across an entire enterprise.
- IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments
Offloads backup processes from VMware guest machines and provides flexible recovery options, including near-instant recovery of Windows disk volumes, from a single-pass backup.
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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.
- Backup and Recovery
Protects data by storing backup copies on online, offline and offsite storage, and employs multiple smart-data techniques to make data backups and restores as fast, as flexible, and as low-impact as possible.
- Business Continuity Service Level Protection
Companies need high data availability and quick recovery from downtime in order to stay competitive. IBM Business Continuity Service Level Protection can help you achieve higher levels of data and storage availability, and recover more quickly after a disruptive event.
- Data Reduction
Holistic approach to reducing data storage capacity requirements across multiple points in the data creation and management lifecycle.
- Disaster Recovery
Automatically and efficiently replicates data off-site and creates a disaster recovery plan containing detailed recovery steps and computer scripts to recover your company's most critical asset, its data. It also facilitates the tracking of volumes stored off-site.
- Remote Office
Meet the challenges of protecting and recovering important data in remote and branch offices, quickly, automatically and cost-effectively.
Unified Recovery Management resources
Unified Recovery Management links
- IBM Global Services: Storage Services and Consulting
- White paper: Using IBM data reduction solutions to manage more data with less infrastructure
- White paper: Managing the tidal wave of data with IBM Tivoli storage management solutions
- White paper: Leverage the IBM Tivoli competitive advantages in storage management
- White paper: Advanced Data Recovery for Mid-Sized Companies
- White paper: Reduce your data storage footprint and tame the information explosion
