New IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Suite With CDP

IBM announced a new suite of integrated data protection solutions designed to help customers of all sizes deal with the ever increasing volume of data and increased pressure to retain and rapidly recover data to meet legal and regulatory requirements.

According to IDC, 161 exabytes of digital content was created, captured, or replicated in 2006 – enough data to stack books from the earth to the moon a dozen times – and the number is expected to multiply by 11 times to 1,800 exabytes by 2011.

IBM’s new Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack suite of offerings – the first new product resulting from IBM’s acquisition of FilesX in the spring – can provide customers with improved business continuity and comprehensive recovery of data and applications, as well as the ability to address compliance across customer data centers and remote offices. As part of IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager family, the new software expands on IBM’s existing enterprise data protection solutions with new capabilities to help protect data on the edge – data that resides outside managed servers on remote networks.

“The explosion of data coupled with increasing compliance requirements is driving the need for customers of all sizes to be able retain, protect and recover information,” said Kelly Beavers, director, IBM storage software. “The new solutions complement our existing data protection software portfolio by offering a backup and recovery solution that is tailored to remote office and mid-market customers.”
"As an information technology provider, we require a data protection solution that will help ensure business continuity while also providing us the ability to retain and quickly recover customer information," said Jason Waldrop, CEO, CWPS. "IBM’s new offerings provide a comprehensive data protection solution that will help us secure our own business data, as well as, provide disaster recovery services for our customers."

Building on IBM’s storage software portfolio of enterprise data protection and recoverability capabilities, the new offerings deliver continuous data protection and near-instant recovery of applications, databases, and file servers.

The new software solutions introduced today are:

• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for continuous data protection and near-instant recovery technology for Windows file servers and applications including Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, Lotus Domino, Oracle, DB2, and others. The software is designed to provide data protection and recovery for applications in data centers or remote branch offices, for enterprises and small business customers. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack can eliminate backup windows by continuously capturing data changes at the block level with minimal impact to the systems it protects. Its policy-based approach to data protection allows administrators to improve recovery service levels, specifically Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) on a per-application basis. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack also provides a near instant restore capability that enables applications to be up and running within minutes after data recovery is initiated, while data recovery is performed in the background.
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  IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Microsoft Exchange for quick and easy restore of individual Exchange objects such as e-mail messages and attachments, contact lists, calendars, tasks, and journal entries. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Microsoft Exchange uses an intuitive Windows-style GUI which can reduce downtime and improve productivity.
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  IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery to help users easily recover entire systems to a comparable server, to a new server with different hardware, or to a virtual machine. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery provides customers with a tool for performing server migrations, and offers a highly cost-effective business resilience solution for remote branch offices.
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  IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Center which combines the three Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack products into a single convenient package.

“IBM’s rapid integration of the FilesX solutions illustrates the complementary nature of both companies’ data protection solutions,” said Lauren Whitehouse, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “With the FilesX acquisition, IBM saw an opportunity to expand its enterprise data protection portfolio to include remote offices and target the mid-market. With the new products announced today, IBM now offers a more comprehensive suite of products that address protection and recovery needs of SMB and enterprise customers.”

The new enterprise-level continuous data protection capabilities introduced today complement IBM’s existing file-based software called IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files, which is targeted at SMB customers as well as laptop and desktop users.  

IBM System Storage DS4000 and IBM System Storage DS3000 select models have been added to the suite of storage products intended to integrate with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack to provide SMB customers with comprehensive data recovery and business continuity solutions.

The new IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack solutions will be available August 15, 2008.

For more information on the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager family