Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack

Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack

Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack gives you the power to quickly restore critical Windows applications and data, anywhere in the organization, from any previous point-in-time, no matter what happens to cause a data loss. TSM FastBack also makes it possible to provide users with access to critical business applications whithout waiting for the entire recovery process to be completed, getting your business up and running sooner.

Customer Pain Points

Solution Business Benefits

• Control storage costs even though data continues to grow exponentially.

• Control increasing people and operational costs due backups consuming too much hardware and people resources.

• Automate data protection and restore to eliminate data loss due to disasters, hardware failures, viruses, and user errors.

• Ensure consistency and reliability of data backups.

• Protect data in remote or branch offices.

• Elimination of backup windows and manual backup/restore processes.

• Near instant recovery and rapid access from any type of data loss.

• Secure transfer of data between primary and disaster recovery site.

• Reduce storage related costs through data reduction.

• Eliminate the need for tape in remote branch offices.


Key questions to ask to identify a project

1.  Do you have Windows server applications where fast recovery from failure is critical to your business?
2.  Do you have an automated way of getting your data off-site to provide for disaster recovery / resiliency?
3.  Do you have challenges with backup and recovery at remote sites due to a lack of skilled on-site IT resources?
4.  Are you running business-critical applications such as Exchange or SQL on Windows servers?
5.  In terms of time, how much data can you afford to lose?
6.  How long can you afford to be without access to this data?
7.  Does your current solution meet these requirements, no matter what happens (lost files, server crash, or local disaster)?