ARMONK, N.Y., Aug. 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE:
IBM) today announced that it is adding new cloud features to two
IBM Spectrum Storage offerings as part of the company's investment
in software defined storage. Over the last six months, more than
1,000 new clients have chosen products from the IBM Spectrum
Storage portfolio for their data storage needs.
IBM Spectrum Protect Backs Up More Data in the Cloud
IBM has been recognized as a "Leader" in the Gartner Magic
Quadrant for Enterprise Backup Software and Integrated
Appliances1 for five consecutive years for IBM Spectrum
Protect. With new features, IBM Spectrum Protect can now help
businesses back up data to on-premises object storage or the cloud,
without the need for cloud-gateway appliances. IBM Spectrum Protect
supports IBM Cloud infrastructure today with a plan to expand the
support to other public clouds in future.
A single IBM Spectrum Protect server performs the work of up to
15 CommVault servers.2 This means that large enterprises
can consolidate backup servers to reduce cost and complexity, while
managing data growth from mobile, social and Internet of
Things. Small and medium size businesses (SMBs) can eliminate
the need for additional backup servers, media servers or
deduplication appliances. Cost analysis with several beta customers
indicates that the enhanced IBM Spectrum Protect software can help
clients reduce backup infrastructure costs on average by up to 53
percent.3
Cloud service provider Tectrade, backs up more than 13,000
systems per day using IBM Spectrum Protect:
"IBM Spectrum Protect offers significant enhancements and richer
functionality than many other virtual backup technologies that are
available in the market today," said William Bush, technical services manager,
Tectrade. "You don't have to run a separate virtualization-only
technology to supplement IBM Spectrum Protect, so you get a single
comprehensive management and storage experience."
In the fourth quarter of 2015, IBM Spectrum Protect will be
offered as an option on the VersaStack solutions jointly developed
by IBM and Cisco.
IBM Spectrum Accelerate Brings Hyperscale Storage to the
Cloud
IBM Spectrum Accelerate on Cloud provides IBM Spectrum
Accelerate as a service to IBM Cloud customers via its SoftLayer
infrastructure. It helps companies to deploy block storage on
SoftLayer without having to buy new storage hardware or manage a
large appliance farm.
"IBM Spectrum Accelerate on Cloud enables us to do off-site
copies, snapshots and asynchronous replication of data from our
data centers to IBM Cloud from a unified management dashboard,"
said Juha Kukka, services design
manager of cloud service provider Enfo Oyj. "This helps simplify
management, reduce administration and lower costs, allowing us to
bring efficiency to our clients."
IBM is also enhancing the software-only version of IBM Spectrum
Accelerate to reduce costs by consolidating storage and compute
resources on the same servers. IBM Spectrum Accelerate is now
available with portable licensing across XIV systems, on- premises
servers, and cloud environments to offer greater operational
flexibility and help support clients as they transform their IT
infrastructures to software defined storage.
About IBM Spectrum Storage
IBM's Spectrum Storage portfolio can centrally manage more than
300 different storage devices and yottabytes of data. This device
interoperability is the broadest in the industry – incorporating
both IBM and non-IBM hardware and tape systems. IBM Spectrum
Storage can help reduce storage costs up to 90 percent in certain
environments by automatically moving data onto the most economical
storage device – either from IBM or non-IBM flash, disk and tape
systems.
IBM Spectrum Storage portfolio includes key storage software
such as IBM Spectrum Accelerate, Spectrum Virtualize, Spectrum
Scale, Spectrum Control, Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Archive.
For more information about software defined storage offerings
from IBM, visit www.ibm.com/spectrumstorage.
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1 Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup
Software and Integrated Appliances, June 15,
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2 Based on CommVault sizing and configuration
guidelines, compared to IBM,
http://docs.commvault.com/commvault/v10/article?p=system_requirements/commcell_sizing.htm
3 IBM customer assessments using Butterfly
software.
Contact: Chaiti Sen, csen@us.ibm.com
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