IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V6.4

The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V6.4 from IBM Corp. consist of:

Tivoli Storage Manager
Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition
Tivoli Storage Manager for Enterprise Resource Planning
Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail
Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management
Tivoli Storage Manager HSM for Windows
Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases
Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments
Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery
Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery Entry
IBM System Storage Archive Manager

The ability to manage information and data has become an imperative. Tivoli Storage Manager family of products helps businesses gain better control and efficiently manage their data in increasingly complex IT environments with enhancements in multiple facets of data protection.

From its inception, Tivoli Storage Manager has been a scalable and available data protection solution. Tivoli Storage Manager V6.4 introduces both new and improved data protection and management capabilities and provides IT administrators with the tools required to help meet more stringent service level requirements and reduce the overall costs of maintaining and protecting the data in these complex environments.

Tivoli Storage Manager V6.4 family of products offers:

Performance enhancements with progressive incremental backup for virtual environments, removing the requirement to perform periodic full backups in a VMware environment for data protection
Optimized and simplified backup and recovery and reporting of VMware environments
Self-contained, application-consistent backup for Exchange and SQL Server running on VMware
Simplified deployment and configuration when integrating with VMware vCenter for Data Protection
NetApp SnapMirror and vFiler support for NetApp snapshot-assisted progressive incremental backup
Complex password support and improved user authentication and management because of integration with LDAP
Enhanced IBM Cognos reporting to monitor backup and archive environments
Support of data protection and recovery for SAP HANA in-memory databases

This Tivoli Storage Manager V6.4 release is delivered with the V6.4.0 Client component and the V6.3.3 Server component.

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