Tivoli Storage Manager V7.1 and Storage FlashCopy Manager V4.1

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
Tivoli Storage Manager has been a scalable and available data protection solution since its inception.

V7.1 introduces both new and improved data protection and management capabilities, and provides IT administrators with the tools to help meet more stringent service level requirements and help reduce the overall costs of maintaining and protecting the data in these complex environments.

Tivoli Storage Manager and Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition V7.1 help reduce backup windows and enhance resilience with the following features:

Increased scalability for daily ingest of deduplicated and replicated data; with up to ten times improvement over previous published daily ingest rates and new reference architectures optimized for data deduplication
Automatic redirect recovery operations from a replication server

The enhancements noted above are also in IBM System Storage Archive Manager V7.1.

V7.1 helps to improve backup and recovery management for VMware environments with the following new features:

VMware full VM instant access and recovery for improved RTOs, including restore verification.
Item level recovery for Exchange Server from a VM backup, database-level recovery for SQL Server from a VM backup, and recovery of VMware VMs domain controllers hosting Active Directory.
Data protection for VMware vCloud Director Tenant vApps.
Additional status and application coverage reporting of VMware environments in the VMware management GUI.
Simplified installation and configuration consolidates various components into one package and optionally enables configuration of the data mover.

Tivoli Storage Manager for SANs V7.1 includes updates necessary to support new capabilities in other Tivoli Storage Manager V7.1 products.

The Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center V7.1 component that adds integrated administrative actions, improved visibility, and server diagnostics.

The Tivoli Storage Manager V7.1 Backup-Archive Client component provides resiliency and security enhancements for NetApp snapshot-assisted progressive incremental backup, as well as secure socket layer support for Macintosh.

Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail V7.1 adds support for Exchange 2013, helps improve responsiveness of the mailbox restore browser, and adds remote GUI support, which enables you to manage data protection for Exchange agents from a single GUI.

The enhancements noted above are also included in these capacity-priced, bundled offerings:

Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery
Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery Entry

Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager V4.1
Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager V4.1 includes the following new features:

VMware instant restore for VM File System datastores, NetApp NAS support for applications on UNIX and Linux, and coexistence with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Central GUI management for distributed Windows agents
Support for DB2 pureScale and Exchange 2013
Enhanced responsiveness of, and multilanguage support for, the Exchange mailbox restore browser GUI
Support for Exchange mailbox restore to PST files larger than 2 GB, and to Unicode PST files
Enhanced usability of instant restore

Planned availability dates

December 13, 2013: Electronic
January 17, 2014: DVD media