Product of the Day: IBM Tivoli Storage Management

Product:
Tivoli Storage
ManagementManufacturer:
IBMURL:
www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/solutions/storage/IBM Tivoli Storage Management Solution - Best
Data Storage Winner at LinuxWorld NYCThe IBM Tivoli Storage Management solution is a complete data
solution for enterprise level storage management across
heterogeneous IT environments comprised of hardware devices,
applications, databases, and operating systems. It provides
unparalleled policy -based back up and restore functionality across
the entire network so that a copy of business critical data can be
kept secure at all times from both natural and unnatural disasters.
In a
November
2002 benchmark test published by Progressive Strategies,
the IBM Tivoli Storage Management solution was a clear winner
"provides a superior solution to all the most critical challenges
we considered".The IBM Tivoli Storage Management solution installs in
minutes and provides customers with more than 300 out of the box
reports. This offers immediate return on investment and delivers
reports that range from general storage utilization summaries to
detailed audits of storage assets to trending reports that forecast
asset usage in a variety of fiscally useful ways such as; by
department, group or platform. IBM Tivoli Storage Management
solution enables organizations to improve their return on
investment by optimizing storage utilization, minimizing downtime
and streamlining storage management. In addition to the pre-defined
reports IBM Tivoli Storage Management solution provides customers
with the following capabilities:

• Create and add custom reports with common reporting
  tools
• Automatically publish reports to web site or
  generate e-mail reports
• Run reports in automated and scheduled batch
  mode
• Advanced and highly automated disaster recovery
  planning
• Policy-driven automated data archive and
  hierarchical storage management
• Automated e-mail or pager notification to storage
  administrator for policy-based triggers

IBM Tivoli Storage Management solution is comprised of two
key products:

1. IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager provides the
   most robust storage resource management functionality in the
   industry today. IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager can identify,
   evaluate, control and predict the utilization of enterprise storage
   assets. Leveraging its policy-based engine, it can detect potential
   problems and automatically apply self-healing adjustments.
2. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager understands and
   addresses the complex challenges of distributed storage management
   and data protection across multiple devices, operating platforms,
   and software applications. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides
   unrivaled data protection thru back up and recovery functionality
   helping to ensure the availability of key business
   applications

The IBM Tivoli Storage Management solution delivers results
to customers. By implementing IBM Tivoli Storage Manager on Linux
Hartford Hospital has experienced results like:

• Reduced backup process from 24 hours to less than
  one hour
• Decreased time to restore a file from overnight to
  almost instantly
• Increased number of servers backed up from 90 to
  143
• Lowered IT costs via a more efficient use of FTEs
  and the elimination of operator errors
• Improved security for backup tapes

"IBM Tivoli Storage Manager restores so fast that it helps
our schedule in getting and keeping the systems up. It gives us
better data integrity overall for the institution." -- Rich Kubica,
managing director, IS InfrastructureLikewise, Dialtone implemented the IBM Tivoli Storage
Management solution on Linux and enjoyed the following
results:

• Provided ability to backup on multiple platforms,
  including Linux, Unix, and Windows Platforms
• Realized an additional 2 percent revenue each
  month
• Maintained current staff level despite massive
  increase in storage needs
• Reduced storage system administrator's workload
  between 30 and 50 percent

"IBM Tivoli Storage Manager also enabled us to support
multiple platforms and operating systems, including Linux, which
was an imperative." -- Alvaro Albarracin, President and CEO,
Dialtone InternetCompanies today face an expanding set of data storage
challenges ranging from how to manage storage across a variety of
computing platforms and mobile devices, effective disaster
planning, to dealing with increasing storage management costs. IBM
Tivoli Storage Management solution helps customers address each of
these critical areas.IBM Tivoli Storage Management solution enables customers to
manage data across multiple applications (databases, web
applications severs, mail applications, server directories and much
more) and operating systems including Linux, AIX, HP-UX, Windows
NT, Windows 2000 and others. IBM Tivoli Storage Management solution
can also manage storage utilization across hundreds of storage
devices ranging from laptops and tape drives to large mainframe
servers.IBM Tivoli Storage Management solution helps customers
address the challenges of disaster recovery planning by allowing
them to create customized management, archive, and data recovery
policies to address tailored disaster scenarios.Autonomic Computing is the proactive practice of an IT
environment becoming self-managing, self-healing, self-configuring
and self-protecting. The IT infrastructure automatically responds
to changes in the commuting environment and takes corrective
action, thereby reducing the amount of human interaction needed to
manage the environment. This allows companies to more efficiently
manage their IT staff. IBM Tivoli Storage Management solution
delivers autonomic functionality today, based on customized storage
management policies. The IBM Tivoli Storage Management solution is
a customer's first step toward a fully autonomic storage management
environment.IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager automatically scans
storage devices collecting information and reporting its findings
back to a centralized console. Customers can create customized
policies based on their individual business needs. Guided by the
thresholds set within these policies IBM Tivoli Storage Resource
Manager can take automatic self-corrective action when problems are
identified, thereby working to sustain the overall health of the
storage infrastructure and maximizing application
availability.IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides autonomic enterprise wide
data protection across WANs, LANs, SANs, and the Internet. By
defining storage policies IBM Tivoli Storage Manager helps protect
enterprise data across heterogeneous storage environments by
automatically initiating archival and data restoration
processes.IBM Tivoli Storage Manager supports Adaptive Differencing
technology to help self-optimize resource usage for backup. These
technologies allow the minimum amount of data to be moved to
backup, helping optimize network bandwidth, tape usage and
management overhead. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager further provides
self-configuring capabilities that perform tasks such as
automatically identifying and loading the appropriate drivers for
the storage devices connected to a server.IBM Tivoli Storage Management solution provides a
comprehensive storage management solution that delivers rapid time
to value. Companies control the overall cost of storage management
and improve the return on the storage investment by centralizing
disparate storage activities, automating storage processes, and
enabling companies to preserve and leverage their existing
investments.IBM Tivoli Storage Management solution and Linux -- helping
customers lower costs and maximize existing assets.

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