Your company has IBM block storage. As the storage administrator, it's your job to detect and resolve any problems with the storage environment. With IBM Storage Insights , detecting those problems is now easier than ever. Storage Insights provides storage management information in a single unified dashboard, where you can see the following: Diagnostic events that tell you whether your block storage systems are functioning correctly Key capacity data that tells you whether you have the capacity to meet your storage demands... [More]

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Over time, many organizations tend to acquire collections of multi-vendor #storage systems, due to application requirements, multiple buyers, mergers, and even staff turnover. Add in the adoption of #cloud and #softwaredefinedstorage products, like IBM Spectrum Virtualize ™ , and that creates even more storage to manage. While each brand of storage has its own administration interface, it’s important to have a more comprehensive monitoring solution that provides a single point of control. That's where IBM Spectrum Control... [More]

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Wow! How great was 2017 for #IBM #dataprotection!   Award winning IBM Spectrum Protect was able to bring to market four function packed releases and IBM introduced a new member on the data protection team, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, which was named Hot Product at VMworld by Network World .   IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a VM availability solution designed so that IT professionals can perform a backup without spending the time learning the ins and outs of a complicated backup tool. You can get detailed documentation for IBM Spectrum... [More]

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The most significant aspect of any disaster recovery plan is the restoration of data. The hope is that you can restore the data to a state that mimics the most recent completed transaction or saved version. This requires a recovery point objective (RPO) generated by your data protection utility with a timestamp close after that transaction or version. The less data you recreate after any failure, the less time the recovery point objective (RTO) takes to get back up and running. Both the RPO and RTO are integral parts of any disaster recovery.... [More]

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From time to time as refresher, it's always good to remember where the log files are located for IBM Spectrum Control™ in order to view detailed information about processing and to troubleshoot problems. IBM Spectrum Control generates a number of log files that record the processes and actions of its main components. You can view these log files to identify where problems occur, and you can provide them to IBM support so that they can help resolve any problems.     Log files contain trace information for component servers... [More]

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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a high-performance data protection and recovery solution for your VMWare and Hyper-V virtual environments. It ensures that your virtual machines and their contents are protected quickly, completely, and safely.   One important feature in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus the capability to offload data from IBM Spectrum Protect Plus to an IBM Spectrum Protect implementation for long-term retention and archiving of your VM images. Currently, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus only supports the offloading of VMWare VMs, but the... [More]

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Everything and Forever. The nirvana of data protection and retention. Also known as the most common answer given to backup administrators from their users. This is where ambitious requirements meet real-world resource and financial constraints. Let’s see how Spectrum Protect Plus handles Operational Recovery as well as Data Reuse .   Outside of long term archiving requirements, organizations typically need only 90 days of backup data retention to satisfy 95% of restore requests – the Tier 1 of data protection needs. In the... [More]

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The latest update of IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights significantly enhances the support experience. Now, it's simple for you to get support for your IBM storage systems. With the latest update, IBM Support already has the data that they need to diagnose your problem at their fingertips - you install a lightweight data collector that constantly streams diagnostic data to IBM. Also, when you open a ticket, a log package is automatically sent to IBM Support. Want to know more? Read on ... In Storage Insights, you can now do the following... [More]

Configuring IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Oracle just got a whole lot easier. When you install IBM Spectrum Protect™ Snapshot for Oracle V814, you can configure the product for all your Oracle database instances by using the new Configuration Wizard.   The Configuration Wizard makes it much easier to change parameters on-demand, update the profile quickly without rerunning the entire process, and propagate the changes for all your Oracle databases managed by that instance of Snapshot.   With the Wizard you, the... [More]