Data protection

Reduce complexity of data protection, retention, backup and recovery

Your business relies on valuable data that is collected in various mission-critical applications across your infrastructure. Data loss used to be as a result of hardware failure and disasters. Today however, up to 79% of data loss(*) can be attributed to human error, software corruption and virus attacks. Statistics indicate that data growth is the main challenge organisations face, crippling backup times and hindering the fast recovery of data when it's needed.

IBM data and application protection solutions are tightly integrated to provide an enterprise-wide unified recovery management. We support a wide variety of today's business-critical applications--databases, ERP, e-mail and other application servers -- across platforms that must remain available 24x365. This gives you the peace of mind to know that your company's IT strategy will never be limited by its data protection capabilities.

Here are some smarter ways to manage the protection of data and applications:

Sort out what data is important Storing everything forever is going to be expensive in terms of space, backup and time management. Moving data to less expensive tiers of storage and deleting unnecessary data from the environment can reduce the need for primary storage capacity and can make data easier to manage and protect. Understand what data you have, (for example duplicate AVIs etc.) and the people who are using them using Tivoli Storage Productivity Centre (US). An invaluable tool for managing utilisation and ultimately reducing data volumes.	Managing the tidal wave of data with IBM Tivoli storage management solutions I BM white paper. This white paper describes how IBM Tivoli storage management solutions can help organisations build dynamic storage infrastructures that scale to meet evolving business requirements by addressing unified recovery management, storage virtualisation , and storage management.
Avoid backing up the same data again and again. As much as 95% of your data doesn't change from week-to-week - why backup all that data? Running periodic full backups can be one of the largest causes of data growth. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager's (US) unique progressive incremental backup methodology and IBM Protectier's (US) byte-level differential analysis on duplicate data, can ensure your backups take the minimum of space. This can potentially save you terabytes of backup capacity every month, whilst ensuring enterprise-class data integrity.	This whitepaper explores one of the pressing issues for storage administrators today: managing and securing a growing tidal wave of data. It discusses specific problems and describes IBM Tivoli, IBM System Storage, and IBM ProtecTIER solutions that can help address them. Or Data reduction webcast How to survive the tidal wave of data with effective data reduction. Register for this On Demand webcast
Protect high priority data with the attention it deserves Mission critical data should be able to be recovered quickly when the business needs it. IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager FastBack (US) gives you to power to quickly recover any Microsoft® Windows® or Linux® server data and Microsoft® Exchange emails, from anywhere in the organisation including remote sites, and from any point in time using space-efficient block-level copies to disk. Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager (US) can perform near-instant application-aware snapshot backups, for IBM DB2®, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Exchange servers on IBM System Storage platforms, reducing the backup window and easing administration by linking to Tivoli Storage Manager. For the data which needs to be retained, but is not currently in frequent use, consider using IBM Information Archive (US) to automate movement based on business rules. Or migrate the data directly to tape using Tivoli Storage Manager for HSM (US). Or consider archiving records from overgrown databases with InfoSphere Optim Data Growth (US) solutions	Try FastBack for 60 days - Free! Or Read about how Edith Cowan University can recover faster using FastBack Read Edith Cowan University case study (189KB)