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July 25th, 2007 [by Jay Robinson]
RackForce is joining the select crowd of service providers who offer an to meet its customers enterprise backup storage needs. We chose the on our IBM () using an N5200 SAN controller with 4700 disk arrays capable of over 50 Terabytes of storage as the best solution for all of our customers. TSM will allow our customers to their , , and to tape or disk and retrieve those backups when they need them, from a complete backup restore to individual file restores. This next step allows RackForce to provide abilities and to be a .
The following is info from IBM’s site about their .
The 24×7 availability of mission-critical data and applications is no longer a goal—it’s a business necessity. The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is designed to provide centralized, automated data protection that can help reduce the risks associated with data loss while also helping to reduce complexity and address compliance with regulatory data retention requirements.IBM Tivoli Storage Manager enables you to protect your organization’s data from failures and other errors by storing backup, archive, space management and bare-metal restore data, as well as compliance and disaster-recovery data in a hierarchy of offline storage. Because it is highly scalable, Tivoli Storage Manager can help protect computers running a variety of different operating systems, connected together through storage area networks (SANs). It uses Web-based management, intelligent data move-and-store techniques and comprehensive policy-based automation.IBM Tivoli Storage Manager’s core functions include:~ Backup and Recovery Management and Archive Management ~ Disaster Preparation Planning and Recovery ~ NDMP Backup for Network Attached Storage ~ Small and Large Tape Libraries ~ Compliance with the most stringent regulatory requirements ~ Invisible, real-time file replication protectionAttributes that set Tivoli Storage Manager apart:~ Easy Management of Multiple Types of Inactive Data in a Hierarchical Repository ~ Lower Storage Cost through Intelligent Hierarchy of Storage ~ Centralized, Comprehensive Management ~ Reduced Network Bandwidth through Intelligent Data Movement ~ Policy-Based Automation
For more on TSM features, please contact RackForce directly and our customer experience team will be happy to assist you.Phone 1-866-468-1158 or +1-250-717-2340www.rackforce.com