Tributary Ports Its Backup Virtualization Software to IBM System x Servers

Tributary Systems, Inc., an IBM Solution Integrator and in storage solutions, is offering its Storage Director/ViTAL Backup Virtualization solution on IBM System x Servers with IBM DS, XIV & V7000 Disk Arrays.
 
Storage Director/ViTAL is a high-availability, backup virtualization and consolidation solution for heterogeneous IT environments. It enables customers with disparate data center environments and with legacy storage hardware backing up multiple operating systems to consolidate and reduce both storage infrastructure and maintenance costs.
 
"This brings our patented Infinicache technology-the heart of Storage Director-to yet another IBM server platform," said Ed Ahl, Director of Business Development for Tributary Systems, Inc.

With this addition, Storage Director/ViTAL Backup Virtualization spans all IBM servers: from IBM zOS mainframes, to IBM Power systems, and now IBM x servers.
 
Providing ‘Any-to-Any’ connectivity, Tributary Systems portfolio includes virtual storage solutions for HP NonStop (Tandem), HP Open VMS, IBM zOS, IBM iSeries (AS/400, Power i), IBM Power Systems AIX, and IBM x servers, as well as Linux, UNIX, and Windows servers.
 
The Storage Director/ViTAL backup virtualization solution has been running in many of Tributary’s Fortune 20 customer data centers for over 4 years. Tributary has been supporting the IBM iSeries and Data DeDuplication for two years.
 
Storage Director/ViTAL enables companies with heterogeneous data centers to implement a single solution with a single point of control. It helps companies manage the growth of data, improve backup/restore performance, and scale their environments.
 
Policy-based, Storage Director/ViTAL has an architecture that enables automated data backup to disk, data deduplication technology, and tape resources. It also supports advanced replication capabilities for off-site data protection, and restore operations from remote, unmanned, lights-out data centers. By separating the backup infrastructure from the backup host, Storage Director/ViTAL allows customers to migrate their legacy environments to state-of-the-art technologies.