Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery

Our understanding of your goals

In today’s competitive 24x7 business environment, the amount of downtime [client] can afford is rapidly shrinking. Every minute of downtime can contribute to lost sales, disenchanted customers, and wasted resources, while longer outages have the potential to be catastrophic to [client’s] viability.

Downtime may be caused by system malfunctions, corrupt software, viruses, malicious activity or natural disasters. Despite having identified these threats and taken efforts to combat them, many organizations may still not be prepared to resume operations quickly. Whether an entire office, a single server or an important file is lost, timely recovery can be critical.

Bare machine recovery is an essential part of any company’s disaster recovery program, because having the ability to restore failed servers is a key business requirement. But many bare machine recovery solutions provide limited flexibility. They may, for example, require that systems be restored to comparable hardware, generating expensive and often impractical standby hardware requirements for companies like [client].

Our approach to meeting your goals

Our next-generation data protection and recovery management platform, IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager FastBackTM, offers advanced bare machine recovery technology specifically designed to help organizations restore entire systems quickly. Whether [client] has lost one server due to hardware failure or lost an entire office of servers due to a local or regional disaster, this solution can help [client]:

With this solution, if a single server is lost in one office, [client] can almost immediately restore it to a standby server in that office or in the data center. From there, it can be accessed by remote staff or shipped to the office for re-deployment. When an entire office is impacted, all the servers from that office can be restored simultaneously.

Solution overview

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery, offered as an optional module for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack, is part of a next-generation data protection and recovery solution that can help [client] address the challenges of recovering entire systems. This solution gives [client] the flexibility to:

Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery can also be the ideal tool for performing migrations to new hardware platforms, making it faster and easier to move workloads from old hardware or standalone servers to new hardware or blade servers.

Why IBM?

IBM understands that when a failure renders applications and data inaccessible, time is critical. But loading and configuring an operating system and reinstalling the software can be very time consuming. While some companies have turned to expensive high-availability solutions such as replication or mirroring, these solutions often require companies to keep two of everything—one for production and one for failover. Providing these kinds of capabilities for remote offices can be cost-prohibitive, especially when the failover hardware must be identical to the production hardware.

Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery provides a fast, cost-effective and easy-to-use disaster recovery solution that enables [client] to maintain a minimum of standby systems for disaster recovery. And because Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack is an integrated component of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, it makes it easier for [client] to add remote data to their core storage-related processes such as archive retention and compliance. Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery can help empower [client] to be more productive and better focused on core business issues, knowing that critical IT assets are well protected.

Page last updated on July 24, 2008.

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Page last updated on July 24, 2008.