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. Reduce backup and recovery infrastructure costs by up to 53 percent.1
  • Protect and recover data with confidence. Control virtual, physical and cloud backup data from a single point, with greater visualization and administrator productivity.
  • Deploy flexible solutions in any size organization. Spectrum Protect scales from entry to large enterprise workloads.

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.2

Manage and protect data with confidence

  • 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.
  • OpenStack backup drivers and VMware vCloud integration enable automated backups and simplified restores for cloud applications

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.

1. Based on IBM assessments using Butterfly Software.

2. Enterprise Strategy Group, ESG Lab Validation Report: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager: Deduplication, Remote Site Recovery, and Scalability, November 2012.

IBM Spectrum Protect resources

IBM Spectrum Protect features a scalable architecture and modular design that helps organizations of all sizes meet their data protection requirements with more efficiency and confidence.

 

Flexible deployment options
Spectrum Protect is available in a range of configuration options – including solution bundles, appliances and cloud services.

 

Solution bundles:

  • IBM Spectrum Protect Suite offers capacity pricing for Spectrum Protect Extended Edition, advanced agents for virtual environments and core applications, snapshot management and space management. Choose from Front End and Back End capacity options. Entry, Archive and ProtecTIER options are also available.
  • IBM Spectrum Protect Extended Edition includes popular enterprise capabilities, such as policy driven node replication, advanced tape library support, NDMP backups and Disaster Recovery Manager.
  • IBM Spectrum Protect Entry: Provides simplified licensing for Spectrum Protect and advanced agents for virtual environments and core applications. It is priced and packaged for small and midsize organizations.
 

Spectrum Protect on the cloud:

 

Application-aware and virtual machine optimized

IBM application-aware agents for mobile devices, virtual environments and core business applications can be added to Spectrum Protect to significantly reduce backup and recovery time and complexity.

  • Email: Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus® Domino®.
  • Databases: IBM DB2® and Informix® online backups are included with Spectrum Protect backup servers. Advanced agents are optionally available for Oracle® and Microsoft SQL.
 

Premium IBM components and patented IBM technology

Spectrum Protect uses premium IBM components and patented IBM technology not found in other backup and recovery software.

Examples include:

  • IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center administration dashboard delivers breakthrough visibility and control from any browser based device.
  • IBM deduplication and incremental "forever" technologies are built in and at no additional cost – enabling more efficient backups.
  • IBM DB2 database simplifies multi-site replication and gives Spectrum Protect enhanced scalability.
  • IBM Cognos Business Intelligence and pre-written reports are included with Spectrum Protect backup servers. This makes it easy to apply analytics, customize and publish reports.

Spectrum Protect offers optional third party software that can be ordered directly from IBM for additional convenience.

CloneManager™ from Cristie Software
CloneSync from Cristie Software
Cristie Bare Machine Recovery (CBMR)
Cristie Recovery Simulator for TBMR
Cristie Recovery Simulator for IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments
Cristie TBMR - Bare Machine Recovery for IBM Spectrum Protect
DocAve Backup and Restore for Microsoft® SharePoint® Backup
Rocket Device Adapter Pack for IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot
Rocket Servergraph Professional

Snapshot management for non-IBM storage

Rocket Device Adapter Pack for IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot

The Rocket Device Adapter Pack is a set of adapters which allow IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot to take snapshots of competitive storage devices on additional Unix and Linux platforms. (Storage devices on Windows platforms are supported by FlashCopy Manager through VSS provider). The Rocket Device Adapter Pack enables support for IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot snapshot-based backup, restore and cloning functions for EMC and Hitachi storage devices.

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Enterprise reporting

Rocket Servergraph Professional

Rocket Servergraph is an enterprise-class, web-based solution that lets you address and control your entire multi-vendor backup environment. It offers a clear, centralized interface that helps storage managers, backup administrators and backup operations teams get their jobs done faster and more efficiently. The solution does this by providing real-time information about multi-vendor backup environments with reports, alerts and monitoring functionality.

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Bare machine recovery and recovery simulators

In the event of a server failure, bare machine recovery is designed to restore the operating system and applications. Recovery can be to the original or to new dissimilar hardware or to a virtual machine. Recovery simulators provide confidence that critical system backups will recover reliably.

Recovery Simulator for TBMR

Recovery Simulator for TBMR, from Cristie Software, tests whether a machine can be successfully recovered from backups created by Cristie TBMR and Spectrum Protect.

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Recovery Simulator for IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

Recovery Simulator for IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments, from Cristie Software, tests whether a machine can be successfully recovered from backups created by Cristie TBMR and Spectrum Protect (IBM Spectrum Protect) for Virtual Environments.

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Cristie TBMR - bare machine recovery for IBM Spectrum Protect

Bare machine recovery software for IBM Spectrum Protect is specifically for Spectrum Protect. TBMR provides rapid recovery directly from IBM Spectrum Protect and without having to perform any other backup of the operating system files.

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Cristie Bare Machine Recovery (CBMR)

Cristie standalone bare machine recovery software provides an ideal solution for enabling bare machine recovery at branch offices and small data centers that are not connected to Spectrum Protect.

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Server cloning

CloneManager™

CloneManager™ from Cristie Software can proactively clone machines to other resources – physical, virtual or cloud.

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CloneSync

CloneSync from Cristie Software can maintain a stand-by at another location without having to repeat a full CloneManager process.

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Microsoft® SharePoint® backup

DocAve Backup and Restore for Microsoft® SharePoint® Backup

DocAve Backup and Restore for Microsoft SharePoint enables application-aware, SLA-driven data protection for SharePoint environments.

The capabilities include:

  • Full, incremental and differential backups that integrate with Spectrum Protect.
  • Recovery from an individual content item to an entire SharePoint environment.
  • Administration tasks such as scheduling, load balancing and pruning.

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The latest release of IBM Spectrum Protect improves usability, cloud integration and scalability.

Version 7.1.3 enhancements

Dedupe Storage Pools

  • Up to 53% reduction in backup infrastructure costs, based on IBM assessments using Butterfly software
  • No charge software-defined deduplication delivers the performance of appliances without the cost and complexity

Cloud Storage Pools

  • Cloud backup tier reduces storage costs, improves flexibility
  • No cloud gateway appliances needed

Usability Improvements

  • Self-service portals for VMware users and service providers
  • Snapshots integrated with traditional backups, applications and storage systems

Version 7.1.2 enhancements

  • Enhanced backup agents for VMware, Exchange and MS SQL
  • VMware vSphere 6 support.
  • Database-level recovery and IMR from virtual machines hosting Microsoft Exchange.

Version 7.1.1 enhancements

  • New operations center control and automation capabilities that reduce the need for scripting and IBM Spectrum Protect expertise.
  • New interface enables “at a glance” view of complex backup schedules and additional configuration and management capabilities. This reduces the need for product expertise and eliminates spreadsheets and manual analysis.
  • More security with NIST SP800-131 compliance and support of 256-bit AES Encryption.
 

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