IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is a suite of products that delivers a broad range of storage management capabilities. These include backup, archive, recovery, space management, database and application protection, ERP, bare machine recovery and disaster recovery planning. Tivoli Storage Manager also includes functions to help protect your mission-critical data which require 24 x 7 availability, as well as options for high-efficiency backup of key business applications, with virtually no backup-related performance impact.
Benefits of TSM include:
- Back-ups and restores data using multiple techniques to reduce the total time required
- Prepares for, and recovers from disasters by maintaining an additional copy of active data for safekeeping at an off-site location
- Archives and retrieves data by moving inactive data to offline storage, freeing up online disk space for more important active data
- Automatically removes data from online storage to offline storage leaving an online data-stub for easy access of the offline data
- Provides 24x365 application protection, working with popular applications to control the time and method by which a data transfer to offline storage occurs