Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack
Tivoli Storage Manager Fastback is a storage manager that gets applications and users back up and running within minutes following any data loss, while performing full data recovery in the background.
- TSM FastBack, together with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, enables information management across the extended data center by leveraging Tivoli Storage Manager for unified data protection and information recovery.
- Continuous data protection of applications and data that can satisfy even the most rigorous of Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).
- Reduced downtime with granular and immediate recovery time (RTO) for mission-critical applications including Microsoft Exchange.
- Simplified data protection for Microsoft Windows applications for a small business, a remote branch office, or the enterprise.
- Visibility into branch operations with centralized management of enterprise-wide distributed information.
- Lower costs associated with managing data in locations where skill or processes are limited or don't exist.
Promotions
#1 Tivoli Stoarage Manager as ‘Premium Renewal’
If you are a existing Tivoli Storage Manager customer, whose maintenance will expire between 1st May and 31st December 2009 (TSM Standard and TSM Extended Edition)
Offer: 30% discount on TSM FastBack when purchased with TSM & TSM Ex at time of renewal.
End Date: 31/12/2009
#2 DS3000 + TSM FastBack Bundle Promotion
DS3000 (20% Discount) + TSM Fastback (30% Discount)
Benefit: Since the TSM FastBack is a backup software which uses disk storage to save the backup data, this bundle provides you with a packaged solution including all the items you may need: the software and the storage.
End Date: 31/12/2009
*Approval Discount for TSM Fastback and DS3000 pending – expected announcement date June 2009.
#3 Try & Buy Programme
Take advantage of the 60 days free trial! Get a real feel of the features and functionality before making the decisión to puchase.
The product will be enabled for a 60-day trial, with a warning of how many days are left; the base software will be in English but will include the language pack from the previous version (a handful of messages might still come up in English). You will not need to re-install if they choose to buy, you just get a key file to re-enable the software (all your data stays in place).
Please contact us for more details.
What can go wrong? |
Current response |
Response with Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack |
|---|---|---|
Office staff forgets to run the backup, or does it wrong |
Pray nothing fails until the next night (or whenever the next backup gets run successfully) |
Automated, non-disruptive backup occurs during normal business hours in the background |
Accidental or malicious deletion of critical files |
Call tape vendor's support desk and have them walk you through loading the right sequence of tapes, and hope you don't over-write any of today's data |
Open the FastBack Restore browser and drag & drop the needed files back to where you need them |
You discover that a critical database server has been corrupted (maybe by a virus) for the past couple of weeks |
Good luck; you're going to need to fly in an expert, and you'll be down for days |
Pick the point-in-time that you want to recover from and initiate a Virtual Restore operation; the entire database will be made available within seconds |
Your boss has lost an important contact or message in his Microsoft Outlook e-mail and needs it now |
Tell the boss it can't be done, and start looking for another job |
Initiate FastBack for Microsoft Exchange and drag-and-drop whatever e-mail objects you need or send them to a new mailbox |
The disk in your SQL Server crashes |
Tell customers to wait for a few hours or days while you try to restore from tape |
Virtual Restore will have you up and running within seconds of putting a new disk on-line |
The office is hit by a <insert your favorite disaster here> |
Restart operations from scratch whenever you can get into a (new) facility; suffer lost customers, revenue |
Use FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery to reconstitute the office's workload in another location, within an hour |
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Microsoft Exchange provides users and administrators with the ability to; recover Microsoft Exchange data objects quickly and easily.
