Data protection and retention

Reduce complexity of data protection, retention, backup and recovery

Data has become integral to business decision making and basic operations, from product development to sales and customer management. This fact means that any threat to ongoing access to data - ranging from recovering from natural disasters to data corruption by hackers – can pose a huge risk to your business. To help address these risks, IBM offers effective, secure solutions that help address growing data protection demands while reducing operational complexity.

Backup and recovery

You backup your data so it can be recovered/restored in case of data loss or corruption – your business can’t afford to not have key data available. But ongoing data growth places more and more demands on backup processes. IBM offers a wide range of effective, efficient and secure backup and recovery solutions to ensure that key business information is always available.

Continuous operations

According to recent research, a one-hour IT system outage can cost a business over £700k. Your IT systems need to be able to prevent and avoid outages and recover from them quickly, IBM offers a range of reliable, high-performance solutions to ensure that a business can remain operational through component failures or significant disasters.

Control and automation

Retention and compliance

Today, significant amounts of data must be saved to meet business or legal requirements. As the amount of information stored grows and grows, effective data archiving solutions can help you improve productivity, control both infrastructure and legal costs, and manage compliance and operational risks.

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Featured integrated solutions

IBM ProtecTIER Deduplication Solutions

IBM ProtecTIER® Deduplication solutions, featuring revolutionary and patented HyperFactor® data deduplication technology, provide enterprise-class performance, scalability, and proven enterprise-level data integrity to meet the disk-based data protection needs of the enterprise data centre down to mid-market environments while enabling significant infrastructure cost reductions.

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IBM Information Archive

IBM Information Archive, the next generation information retention solution is designed as an archiving repository for all types of content (structured or unstructured) to help organizations of any size address complete information retention needs—business, legal, or regulatory.

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LTO 5

IBM 5th generation Linear Tape-Open™ technology can help solve storage challenges around consolidation, energy efficiency and security. And with improved performance and new capabilities, LTO 5 offers outstanding investment protection.

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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

Leverage next-generation data storage and recovery management capabilities. IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager 6 provides a wide range of storage management capabilities from a single point of control, helping companies ride the information tidal wave.