IBM Spectrum Protect

IBM® Spectrum Protect™, formerly Tivoli® Storage Manager, is a data protection platform that gives enterprises a single point of control and administration for backup and recovery.

It enables reliable, cost effective backups and fast recovery for virtual, physical and cloud environments of all sizes.

Spend less on data protection and more on innovation

• Switching to Spectrum Protect can reduce backup infrastructure costs by up to 53 percent, based on IBM assessments using Butterfly Software.
• Incremental “forever” backup in conjunction with deduplication can reduce backup storage requirements up to 95 percent for virtual and physical environments.

Manage and protect data with confidence

• Control virtual, physical and cloud backup data from a single point, with greater visualization and administrator productivity.
• The IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center dashboard, policy driven administration and cloud integration make the product easy to use.
• VMware administrators can manage backups and restores using familiar user interfaces. There is no need to interact directly with backup servers.
• Converts existing file and virtual tape library (VTL)-type deduplicated storage pools to Spectrum Protect directory-container storage pools. This automated conversion function enables organizations to take advantage of the space, management, and database improvements in the new storage pools.
• Contains server-side compression that adds more capacity to Spectrum Protect container pools without adding more storage.

Deploy flexible solutions in any size organization

• Spectrum Protect is highly scalable – a single backup server can protect billions of objects and can ingest, deduplicate and replicate up to 100 terabytes per day of new or changed client data.
• There are specially priced and packaged entry versions for small and mid-sized organizations. These versions are full featured and offer a choice of capacity and component based license plans.
• Learn more about how to spend less time and money on backups with IBM Spectrum Protect.

Based on IBM assessments using Butterfly Software.

Enterprise Strategy Group, ESG Lab Validation Report: IBM Spectrum Protect: Deduplication, Remote Site Recovery, and Scalability, November 2012.

IBM Spectrum Protect™ V8.1.2 now delivers the following capabilities:

• Integrated native object storage support to Microsoft Azure Blob storage enabling customers to store data on Microsoft’s object storage platform
• Enhanced monitoring capabilities native to the vSphere Web Client to help VMware administrators quickly identify and resolve problems with scheduled backup events
• Leverage the power of hardware-based persistent snapshots using VMware virtual volumes (VVOLs), fully integrated into Data Protection for VMware
• Enhanced security with at-rest encryption for directory-container storage pools, including the ability to encrypt existing directory-container storage pools
• Spectrum Protect server support for Linux on Power Little Endian for Red Hat

Media Gallery

Documentation

Knowledge Center

• V8.1.0 Knowledge Center

Blueprints

• IBM Spectrum Protect Blueprints

Technotes

• Tivoli Storage Manager Supported Operating Systems
• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Supported Devices for Linux
• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Supported Devices for AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, and Windows
• Latest TSM Server and Client Downloads – Fix Packs and Interim Fixes
• TSM Server-Client Compatibility and Upgrade Considerations

White papers

• Best practices for recovering Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8
• Best practices for recovering Windows server 2008, Windows server 2008 R2, Windows 7, and Windows vista
• ESG Lab Review: IBM Data Protection for Virtual Environments

Redbooks

• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager as a Data Protection Solution
• Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware Solution Design Considerations

IBM Spectrum Protect Customer Feedback Programs

IBM is looking for customers and business partners to provide feedback on IBM Spectrum Protect offerings in order to influence future enhancements and improve the product experience. IBM is trying to better meet the needs of its customers through our early interaction programs. We have three program offerings:

• Beta program: Participants will be given access to pre-released code and asked to provide focused input related to the time-to-value and overall user experience.
• Early Access Program (EAP): Participants are invited to quarterly sessions to provide feedback on potential future designs.
• Sponsor User program: Selected participants will be chosen to work closely with the design and development teams to improve new enhancements.

If you are interested in a more direct interaction with the Spectrum Protect development, consider registering for one of these programs:

• To request enrollment in the beta program, submit the Spectrum Protect Beta sign-up form
• To request enrollment in the EAP program, submit the Spectrum Protect EAP sign-up form

Sponsor users are selected from the beta and EAP programs.

Note: Because new features and functionality are unannounced, the material presented throughout these programs will be classified IBM Confidential and participants will be required to accept a standard legal agreement that has been approved for use within IBM Software Group at IBM before acceptance into the beta and/or EAP programs.