ARMONK, N.Y., June 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM)
today announced that Gartner, has recognized IBM as a Leader in the
June 15, 2015 Magic Quadrant for
Enterprise Backup Software and Integrated Appliances.1
For this report, Gartner evaluated IBM Spectrum Protect, a data
protection and recovery software, which is part of the company's
software defined storage portfolio.
IBM Spectrum Protect optimizes backups for physical, virtual and
cloud environments from a single management console and are
increasingly finding favor among clients with hybrid cloud
environment. It addresses data protection objectives for
organizations of all sizes and can open up opportunities for
application designers, data owners and service providers in every
industry to develop Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT)
applications without mastering data management, recovery or
protection.
With IBM Spectrum Protect, cloud infrastructure service
providers like CenterGrid are able to support new, innovative
applications that take seed in the start-up community.
For example, CenterGrid hosts software from Streetline, Inc., a
leading smart parking company that has developed a mobile app that
displays available parking spots on a Google map mash-up. Commuters
can use a Smartphone to find a parking lot, make the payment and
find their car when they are ready to go. Parking Enforcement staff
can view expired and inoperable meters on a mobile map, which can
improve staff efficiency and citizen compliance.
Smart parking is enabled through four-inch square (about 10cm)
Streetline sensors fastened to the pavement that wirelessly send
signals to transmission boxes mounted on light poles every few
blocks, which then transmit the data to Streetline servers hosted
in CenterGrid facilities. This is supported by high-availability
IBM infrastructure and services provided by CenterGrid, which
includes IBM Spectrum Protect for its Recovery Center cloud backup
service.
"With IBM, we deliver IT infrastructures, services and expertise
on a flexible pay-as-you go basis so that fast growing companies
can focus their resources on innovation," said Tim Campbell, President, CenterGrid. "With
Spectrum Protect, we're able to reduce cost and complexity of data
protection. But most importantly, we're confident we can recover
data anytime."
IBM Spectrum Protect is part of the IBM Spectrum Storage
portfolio. The storage software can interface with many storage
devices, provides a broad range of backup capabilities and can
scale to multiple petabytes.
For more information, please visit
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/spectrum/ and follow the
conversation on @IBMStorage.
1 Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup
Software and Integrated Appliances – Dave
Russell, Pushan Rinnen, Robert
Rhame, June 15, 2015
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