Storage Management

Businesses face a tidal wave of information and data that seems to increase daily. The ability to successfully manage information and data has become an imperative. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager enables the fast backup and recovery of data center operations, providing comprehensive data management and data reduction capabilities:

· Automated, policy-based operations

· Comprehensive and configurable reporting and monitoring

· Progressive incremental backup

· Data deduplication and compression

· Hierarchy of storage to balance the needs of the data with the cost of the media

· Tape reclamation to reduce expenditures on tape and maximise capacity utilisation

· Advanced security capabilities

Tivoli Storage Manager is a highly scalable and available data protection solution featuring a relational database, based on IBM DB2 technology, designed to store many more objects and manage more data. Greater availability is delivered through enhancements such as online, automated database reorganisation. In addition, the increased scalability and the ability to leverage the latest in server technology helps deliver increased performance of backup and recovery processes.

One way to successfully gain better control and efficiently manage the information tidal wave is to slow it down by decreasing the rate of storage capacity required to contain the data growth. Tivoli Storage Manager helps achieve this with a new built-in data deduplication feature that helps eliminate redundant data. This can enable significantly more backup data to be stored on disk.

As an IBM Tivoli Storage Business Partner; Applied Technologies will work with you to determine a solution plan to overcome storage pain points and meet your backup and recovery objectives. Through our own expertise and by utilising skilled partners, this can then be put into practice and provide an environment where you are in control of your data.