Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack

Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Center provides continuous data protection of Microsoft based applications, databases, and file servers, and supports business users with near-instant recovery times of data assets. To achieve continuous data protection TSM FastBack continually captures block level data changes with minimal impact to the host server. This solution makes it possible to recover data and maintain operations, in almost any circumstances.

Remote branch offices without technical IT staff have been a popular pain point for businesses with IT assets. ITSM FastBack Center provides an extensible set of integrated tools to eliminate the requirement for tape based backup solutions in remote\branch offices by providing disk-to-disk backup and restore capabilities. The flexible policy based automation removes the frequently required human intervention to mount tapes or initiate backups.

Disaster recovery has always been a hot topic. Businesses have critical requirements in data protection to enable them to recover from the loss of an office due to an unplanned event. A remote office should be no exception to this. TSM FastBack Center provides methods to automatically manage the replication of Remote Branch Office data to a central location to facilitate disaster recovery. Furthermore ITSM FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery allows entire servers to be recovered quickly to dissimilar hardware and even virtual servers, providing a cost effective disaster recovery solution requiring minimum standby hardware. As TSM FastBack center is an integrated component of IBM Tivoli Storage Manger (TSM) it simplifies adding the remote office requirements into the central data protection strategies; including archive, retention and compliance.

TSM FastBack Center includes near instant restore capabilities to get applications up and running again whilst restoring the data in the background. In simple restore situations the end user has the ability to mount a backup image to their local computer and use windows explorer to drag and drop the required files back to the desired location, thereby reducing restore requests received by the IT department.

Email is now considered to be a mission critical business application for many companies. As the volume of data being stored in exchange increases so does the amount of time required to secure it with traditional backup options. ITSM FastBack for Exchange provides continuous data protection of Microsoft Exchange environments. Restore of exchange data with its easy to use GUI allows administrators to restore mailboxes or even individual items such as messages, calendar entries and even attachments.

Portal Partnership is able to:

• Design and implement scalable, flexible, best practice storage management solutions tailored around your company requirements.

• Provide maintenance and support for existing storage management environments.

• Provide storage Health Checks services to ensure that your company storage objectives continue to be achieved.

• Develop integrated cross brand IT solutions featuring a rich portfolio of IBM \ Tivoli products to provide real business benefits.

To learn more about the benefits of Tivoli Storage Manager Fast Back Solutions:

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