IBM Tivoli Storage Manager protects your organization’s data from hardware failures and other errors by storing backup and archive copies of data on offline storage. Scaling to protect hundreds of computers running a dozen OS ranging from laptops to mainframes and connected together via the internet, WANs or LANs, Storage Manager’s centralized Web-based management, smart-data-move and store techniques and comprehensive policy-based automation all work together to minimize data protection administration costs and the impact to both computers and networks. Optional modules allow business-critical applications that must run 24x365 to utilize Storage Manager’s centralized data protection with no interruption to their service. Backups are copies of your active online data stored on offline storage. Should an online storage device fail, a data error occur or someone accidentally deletes a file, the offline copy of that data can be copied (restored) to online storage. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager uses multiple techniques to make data backups and restores as fast, flexible and low-impact as possible. Data archives are copies of active or inactive data from online storage copied to offline storage. Archives are used to keep point-in-time copies of important data for regulatory or bookkeeping requirements and to move inactive data from expensive online storage to less-expensive offline storage. Managed data archives implemented by Storage Manager are managed for a defined lifetime through the policy-automation engine, just like backed-up data. The Storage Manager client can help quickly and easily retrieve the archived data, helping to effectively extend your data storage capabilities without the need for more expensive online storage. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager's core functions include: Data backup and restore, managed data archive and retrieve, protection for 24x365 business-critical applications, and support for small tape libraries (two drives and forty slots). |  |
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