… ProtecTIER Enterprise Edition and Appliance V3.2 Support New Options …

IBM Corp.‘s System Storage ProtecTIER Enterprise Edition and ProtecTIER Appliance Edition Version 3.2 software introduce the CIFS backup interface for customers with Windows-based backup environments.

ProtecTIER V3.2 supports replication between a maximum of eight ProtecTIER CIFS system. Any one ProtecTIER CIFS systems is limited to a maximum of three target systems within the replication grid per replication policy.

ProtecTIER V3.2 continues the support for the Symantec NetBackup OpenStorage API announced with ProtecTIER V2.5, and for the VTL interface that has been the foundation of the ProtecTIER offerings. Supported replication grid configurations for ProtecTIER OST and ProtecTIER VTL systems are unchanged with ProtecTIER V3.2.

Other enhancements
ProtecTIER V3.2 are designed to include SNMP alerting improvements, enhancements to the security interface for the ProtecTIER Manager GUI, and performance improvements compared to ProtecTIER V3.1. When combined with the TS7650G Model DD5 Gateway, ProtecTIER Enterprise Edition V3.2 can help deliver up to 25% faster throughput for multiple stream backups than V3.1 running on a TS7650G Model DD4 gateway.

ProtecTIER Enterprise Edition V3.2 and IBM System Storage ProtecTIER Appliance Edition V3.2 are the follow-on products for ProtecTIER Enterprise Edition V3.1 and ProtecTIER Appliance Edition V3.1.

Key prerequisites
ProtecTIER Enterprise Edition requires the System Storage TS7650G Deduplication Gateway hardware. ProtecTIER Appliance Edition requires the System Storage TS7650 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliance hardware. Only backup data passed to ProtecTIER from NetBackup is eligible to utilize the optional OpenStorage interface.

The CIFS interface in ProtecTIER Enterprise Edition V3.2 is only supported on the TS7650G Gateway model DD5. The CIFS interface in ProtecTIER Appliance Edition V3.2 is only supported on new TS7650 Appliance model AP1 systems.

Planned availability date
June 8, 2012