Huge increase in restore performance with Spectrum Protect V8 and AWS cloud storagepools

Icelandair Group is one of Iceland’s largest airline corporations. The company includes Icelandair (a global airline), logistics, and several related business units. Traditionally, Icelandair Group acquired IT infrastructure capacity upfront and consumed it over time. Running out...

How to improve performance when taking backup to cloud storage pools (hybrid cloud backup) - Video tutorial

Since IBM now supports various cloud storage services to take the backups, you can use cloud container storagepools to store both the deduplicated data and non-deduplicated data and restore the data as required.  Starting from IBM Spectrum Protect  (TSM) V 7.1.7, you...

How to configure storage pool on a Cloud Storage services - Video tutorial

Starting from IBM Spectrum Protect  (TSM) V 7.1.7, you can configure cloud-container storage pools on 4 of the popular and widely used cloud based object storage systems to backup the data. IBM supports the following cloud based object storage systems to configure storagepools...

TSM Tape Library related Interview Questions and Answers

This is the continuation for the previous post IBM Spectrum Protect Basic Interview Questions. If you need to learn IBM Spectrum Protect freely visit the page Tivoli Storage Manager Tutorials.  16) Common reasons for Tape Library issues ?      Check...

How to install and configure Data Protection for VMware V8.1 - Video Tutorial

Data Protection for VMware includes several components which you can install to protect your virtual environment. Before installing Tivoli Storage Manager for VE to protect your VMware infrastructure, you need to plan and decide how many Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI's are required based upon your size of your environment. Depending on the operating...

New features in IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual environment V8.1.0 for easy administration by VMware users.

The IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual environment V8.1.0 comes with an advanced features which optimize the backup, restore administrative tasks performance. Data Protection for VMware works with the Tivoli Storage Manager backup-archive client which is installed on the vStorage Backup server  to complete full and incremental backups of VMs. The new version of IBM...

Follow these 10 tips to secure your IT backup infrastructure (Spectrum Protect)

Today, most of the IT data centres are affected by the modern and intelligent malware and viruses in some or the other form. This can be due to the negligence of the employees or inappropriate security systems that are implemented. Currently we have a new type of data theft strategies such as  RasomWare implemented by cyber attackers to steal the business critical information....