Abstracts of TSM 2015 Exhibitor's Talks

The abstracts of vendor talks are sorted by vendor name.

Dr. Stefan Radtke, Concat AG and EMC-ISILON

TSM Storage Pools on the ScaleOut NAS System EMC Isilon have become very popular in large enterprises around the world. During this presentation we’ll briefly highlight how EMC Isilon and dsmISI simplify the TSM management significantly and how the solution provides scaleable performance, capacity and reliable SLAs. The dsmISI solution addresses the fact that TSM is somehow unaware of the nature of a ScaleOut Filesystem. Side effects of this are that TSM does not automatically leverage multiple paths to it’s volumes (unless you configure it to do so) and that the used paths would be static. To optimize the operations in such an environment, Concat provides a solution called dsmISI which simplifies ond optimizes the TSM management with EMC Isilon even further. Backup/Restore can leverage dynamic paths to Isilon without the need to manually configure and maintain device class definitions. Operations become extremely easy to manage and performance will be always optimized in such an environment.

Andy Loydell, Cristie Software

With increasing interest in embracing the cloud and virtual environments for disaster recovery and business continuity, Cristie’s product portfolio meets the challenge of protecting, recovering, moving and cloning systems. Andy Loydell, Sales Manager, Cristie Software, will explore how Cristie system recovery for Spectrum Protect (TBMR) and Recovery Simulator can give users complete recovery assurance.

Alina Mot, Empalis Consulting GmbH

Everyone using IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot (ISPS - former known as FlashCopy Manager) appreciates the advantages of the snapshoting technology used therein, but also knows how much work the administration of every single instance of ISPS can bring with it.

Our product ISPSManager allows you to easily monitor any existing ISPS instances from a central WEB based console, avoiding therefore the overhead related to administering each single ISPS instance individually. A server process performs regular scans to detect changes in the instances defined in ISPSManager and their hosting server infrastructure (like changes in the operating system, ISPS version, etc) and to check the execution status of the planed ISPS backups and/or clones.

The integrated role based identity and access management allows you to group users and instances in a "many to many" manner, providing maximum flexibility in assigning of different authorizations.

Bruno Friess, eXstor GmbH

In times of backup-as-a-service, cloud services and node replication it is still worth to hear and learn why a reliable cluster solution for TSM is still required. We have integrated the node replication as an "add-on" to the normal behaviour in the current version 5.3 and in addition a tough integration of Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS). The upcoming version 6.1 of the product will introduce new capabilities for the next TSM server versions.

Norbert Postler, Fujitsu Technology Solutions

ETERNUS CS8000 radically simplifies data protection in heterogeneous IT environments allowing consolidating backup systems on a large scale and offers an easy way to introduce disaster resilience for backup and archiving. As an integrated appliance it centrally manages backup and restore of data from mainframes, UNIX and x86 systems combining the best of disks and tape in a uniform way.

Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is IBM's company-wide storage management and backup application that supports backups to local tape storage media, local disk storage, or NAS storage.

Together, Fujitsu ETERNUS CS8000 and IBM TSM supply an ideal solution for storage consolidation, data exchange, data backup and disaster resilience.

Lars Henningsen, General Storage GbR

TSM probably is the most advanced storage management solution on the market - yet your VMware colleagues want Veeam, your NAS colleagues want SnapVault, your SAN colleagues want you to leave them alone, all of them complain about TSM performance and you’re busy just managing storage pool capacities? Fear not.

Josef Weingand, IBM Deutschland

IBM Germany is pleased to be present with its Spectrum portfolio putting an emphasis on Spectrum Protect and Archive as well as presenting its Storage driver product IBM FlashSystems. Our competent specialists look forward to interesting and encouraging conversations with the symposium visitors.

Gregor Woerle, Netapp Deutschland GmbH

It is still a challenge to get Spectrum Protect (TSM) backups as soon as possible, effective & secure to another Data Center to be prepared against any kind of disaster. The NetApp AltaVault solves it in a smart way, by offering a local virtual or physical appliance, which overtakes the Deduplication & Encryption workload to his local disk cache, while only the new blocks are moved in parallel to a Cloud Storage of your choice. The virtual or physical NetApp StorageGrid WebScale appliance is expected to be one of your favorite target Cloud Storages, as it allows you to build the whole functionality within your own data centers. And you are not limited to backups only – you may use the systems for Archive and as Object Store in addition.

Philippe Flueler, Oracle Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG

New market demands, regulatory and compliance requirements as well as the need to preserve massive amounts of data flows are drivers for secure, compliant, and economic storage solutions. This changes the requirements for recording processes towards consolidated and integrated solutions and standardized processes. In addition to classic features - such as capacity and throughput - new aspects become today evident in the context of long-life-cycles. In the presentation you'll learn about the extended features of modern tape technologies which provide reliable, efficient processing and storage of massive data sets.

Tomas Dalebjörk, Repostor AB

By using Data protector you are able to do backup and restore on open source databases!

We have created a “plug-in” module tailored for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. This means you can continue to use your existing solution without having to invest in new backup systems in order to secure your data. At the moment we support the following databases:

  • MySQL
  • Sybase ASE
  • Sybase IQ
  • PostgreSQL
  • Ingres
  • Interbase/Firebird
  • Progress OpenEdge 4GL


And more to come as the market evolves! 

Amédée Potier, Rocket Software

This presentation will cover how Rocket Servergraph helps companies to monitor their entire global backup infrastructure. Rocket Servergraph includes cross-vendor reporting for all major Data Protection software and Virtual Tape Libraries. Reporting includes trend analysis and forecasting. For day-to-day Spectrum Protect administration, the Servergraph Admin Center for TSM is the only tool needed.

Stefan Schröder, Schmitz RZ Consult GmbH

Control, verification and proof of all daily backups and documentation of the backup configurations are essential. Nevertheless, these tasks are often neglected. The reasons are firstly the high expenses and secondly, the type of work (routine tasks). BACKUP EAGLE® reduces the daily effort to check all failed backups. BACKUP EAGLE® ensures easy control, secure verification and complete evidence of backup operation. The configurations of TSM servers and TSM clients including all changes are automatically documented - no effort needed.

Main ideas, guidelines, concepts and components of BACKUP EAGLE® will be explained within the presentation.

Marek Bradac, USER Software Works

We are proud to announce several new solutions we developed with focus on enrich existing IBM Spectrum Protect implementations and to give a new ways of using TSM/SSAM based solutions. We will show you new TSM Admin mobile app (iOS, Android), where you can easily manage IBM Spectrum Protect from your smartphone, introduce you new TSMPoint solution, which is space management solution for SharePoint server and last but not least PureArchive box which succeeds discontinued IBM Information Archive, enabling clients keep trusted archive on IBM platform and do not leave to competitors.