With ever increasing data requirements, companies need to protect and manage mission-critical information across all environments. Tivoli Storage Manager is an industry-leading storage management product set designed to address all your storage backup requirements.

The Tivoli Storage Manager product set provides companies a single backup solution for all of their data requirements across heterogeneous platforms and complex environments that include both traditional Local Area Networks (LANs) as well as Storage Area Networks (SANs).

Tivoli Storage Manager server is provided on AIX, Solaris, Windows 2000, Windows NT, AS/400, OS/2, OS/390, MVS, and VM/ESA. It can protect the following backup-archive clients: AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Windows, NetWare, Macintosh, OS/2, Linux.

Some of the features TSM include are:

• Shared tape pools reducing number of tape libraries required and optimises utilisation of the tape libraries.
• Disaster Recovery Manager
• Lotus Notes® or Microsoft® Exchange backups
• Oracle database and DB2® backups
• Automated incremental and subfile backup, archive and retrieval
• LAN-free and server-free backups using SAN
• Use of advanced copy features such as Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) FlashCopy® to alleviate short backup windows

1. Phase one would be an in-depth review of your current IT environment and backup solution, as well as your future data requirements. With this information we will then be in a position to put forward our backup and recovery recommendations.
2. Phase two, implementation phase. Tivoli Storage Manager would be installed at your site, with customized storage policies for your environment. This includes new recovery procedures and explanation of Tivoli Storage Manager parameters and policies.
   During the second phase we actively encourage skills transfers from our team of consultants, enabling your own support staff to take ownership of the new backup and recovery solution in a controlled manner.