Tag Archives: Tivoli Storage Manager

02.28.14
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Reasons to Consider an MSP for Data Backup and Restore Program

Companies are re-evaluating their Data Backup and Recovery processes as complex data structures create new challenges.

Managed ServiceOutsourcing Data backup processes is a logical first choice to consider. When considering outsourcing, however, there are concerns about protecting secure data and internal security procedures. So, outsourcing to an American Managed Service Provider is often the preferred approach; especially if the data can remain within the control of the company and only the Backup and Recovery procedures are performed remotely by the Data Back and Recovery MSP.

One purpose to outsource is to free up the time of the IT staff to focus on core business strategies instead of training on the new Backup and Recovery techniques and then spending hours each day looking at logs and emails. The Storage Administrator can be released from the endless cycle of repeating the same tasks over and over again. And, the processes can be designed and performed by experts in the field.

In the search for an outsourced Data Backup and Recovery, a company will look for:

  • Having direct access to a team of senior certified consultants which integrate into your existing IT team to manage your TSM infrastructure.
  • Having the latest backup and monitoring solutions, without the overhead and headaches to maintaining it.
  • Have the option to plan and execute Disaster Recovery efforts in house to ensure all stakeholders are involved.
  • Partnering with an American operated organization who understands business needs.
  • Have an escalation point and access to consultants with extensive experience of supporting a broad range of backup environments.
  • Regular strategic review meetings and account management

IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) provides a platform to resolve both tactical and strategic backup solutions. Salvus Data Consultants is an MSP that provides IBM’s TSM backup environments. The benefits are:

    • The service provides a proactive approach to backup and recovery:
      1. Fixing it (tactical repairs)
      2. Monitoring backup solutions (discovery).
      3. Tuning the backup environment (proactive)
      4. Planning long term backup solution (strategic).

When considering a new approach to your Data Backup and Restore, consider outsourcing to an American MSP that will partner with you in the design and execution of a proactive strategy. Contact Salvus Data to explore the benefits that an experience data backup and recovery MSP can provide your business.

02.03.14
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The Trends Causing the reevaluation of Data Protection Solutions

Customers using Data Backup and Recovery Solutions are reevaluating their present backup and recovery strategies. This is being motivated due to the increase in data complexity because of data variety, velocity and volume. The old IT process of delegating the data backup and recovery responsibilities to ‘the new guy’ are coming to an end. It is too important to treat Data Protection with anything less than a mission-critical effort.

Complex data This IDC study examines the worldwide data protection and recovery software market for the period from 2012 to 2017.

The abstract reads:

“The worldwide data protection and recovery software market in 2012 experienced continued growth as a result of a broad-based economic recovery. In addition, the worldwide data protection and recovery software market posted significant gains because of the greater adoption of storage optimization technologies such as data deduplication and the growth of customers needing to extend their protection schema to their rapidly growing virtualized protection environments,” said Robert Amatruda, research director for Data Protection and Recovery at IDC. “However, we have discovered incumbent vendors are vulnerable when customers reevaluate their data protection solutions, especially when customers are experiencing pain points associated with unabated data growth, the inability to meet aggressive SLAs, and a growing need to protect virtual machines (VMs).”

There is another market trend that is in play during this reevaluation of data protection strategies. That is the increased interest in employing a cloud provider for these services in the form of a managed service provider (MSP). The IT staff is overloaded with other duties and does not generally have the in depth training now needed to meet the challenge of protecting Big Data. Hpwever, reluctance to embrace a cloud solution can occur when the realization that the data may need to be relinquished to the cloud. However, this is not necessarily true.

A customer can choose to have the management of the data backup and restore processes provided by an MSP without moving the live data from the customer’s network. The management of the processes can be managed remotely by a data backup and recovery MSP while the live data remains within the customer’s environment. Salvus Data Consultants provide this model. The result is experienced Data B/R consultants are planning and managing this very critical function while freeing up the IT staff to concentrate on their areas of expertise.

As companies continue to require comprehensive data analytics using Big Data to remain competitive, then the need for sophisticated data backup and recovery processes will continue to increase in importance.

01.23.14
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Can the Data Remain Within the Customer’s Control While Data Backup and Recovery is Moved to the Cloud?

Nine out of ten global CEOs view the cloud as critical to their business plans according to IBM.

Junior technician learning Data backupIt is no surprise that IBM Pulse 2014 is shaping up to be another very successful conference. Pulse is IBM’s premier cloud conference. It is being held in Las Vegas on February 23rd through the 26th.

The conference will be covering the power of cloud computing. Included in this discussion are Managed Service Providers (MSP), from cloud and storage to traditional data center, managed network services, and mobile device management. Eighty-five percent of new software this year will be built for cloud delivery.

When the term “cloud” is mentioned, most of us visualize a specific service  that we are familiar. We also visualize that service to be all-inclusive. An example would be data backup and recovery where all the data and the processes are expected to be deployed in the cloud. But, this is not the only model that is possible. A hybrid model may be the preferred in certain cases.

In the case of data backup and recovery, for instance, the data can remain within the customer’s network and deployed off site at the customer’s choice location, while the processes are managed in the cloud. The benefit gained by deploying the data backup processes in the cloud is having the management of the data backup and recovery performed and scheduled remotely by data consultants that specialize in this field. An additional benefit is to remove the burden from the already stretched IT staff.

As we have discussed in previous posts, the alternative of moving the process of data backup and recovery to the cloud is all too often to pick the most junior IT professional on staff and assign that person the task of data backup processes. Picking a junior person for this task  ‘ticks the box’ for upper management and all is well. That is until disaster strikes and that data needs to be recovered. This is to say nothing of the daily and weekly inefficiencies that can be caused by data backup processes developed by an inexperienced individual.

There are Data Backup/Recovery Managed Service Providers (DB/R MSP) that provide remote management of the Backup process, along with professional Disaster Backup and Recovery consultation. Contracting a DB/R MSP with the model of remote DB/R management allows the SMB to maintain their data locally without the need to hire new staff or train existing staff in sophisticated data backup and recovery processes.