Back up data to a cloud computing system

With Tivoli® Storage Manager Version 7.1.3, you can define a new type of cloud-container storage pool. The cloud-container storage pool protects backup and archive data that is integrated with data deduplication. You can back up the data to either an IBM® SoftLayer or OpenStack Swift cloud computing system.

The cloud-container storage pool provides the following benefits:

• Reduced on-premises storage requirements and cost
• Simplified storage management
• Improved server performance
• Use of public, off-premises, or private, on-premises cloud storage
• Secure data through server-side encryption

Restriction: Cloud-container storage pools are not supported on Linux on Power Systems™ and Linux on System z®.