IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Express - license

TSM Express uses straightforward Web-based management, intelligent data move-and-store techniques, and comprehensive policy-based automation that work together to protect data while substantially decreasing administrative time and cost. It provides easy system-wide administration of data backup and recovery from one centralized location. With automatic installation, easy client software deployment, automatic configuration, and device discovery, TSM Express can complete the first full backup just one hour out-of-the box. Easy management and low entry cost make TSM Express uniquely positioned to provide superior value to mid-market companies seeking affordable data protection for every workstation, notebook, and server on the LAN.

Features and Benefits
TSM Express incorporates a robust feature set including:
• Support for up to 20 servers
• 1 Hour from install to first backup
• Automatic installation and configuration
• First Steps (how to guide)
• Default preconfigured best practices
• Easy to use administrative interface
• Integrated Tivoli Data Protection for mail and DB
• Image Backup/Restore
• Dynamic multi-session backup & restore
• Small resource and installation footprints
• Calendar Based Scheduling
• Collocation for file data stored on disk
• Compressed backups
• Storage health monitor
• Include/exclude lists
• Integrated operational reporting
• Ability to stack multiple clients on the same media copy
• Support for Progressive Incremental backups or traditional Grandfather-Father-Son hierarchies
• Under-the-covers tape management tools for off-site backup (LTO, DLT, 4mm, Sony AIT 8mm)
• Aggressively priced and easily implemented upgrade path to enterprise-class TSM Extended

TSM Express provides the following benefits:
• Superior data preservation
• Faster time to recovery
• Immediate time to value
• Lower TCO for storage system
• Backup without crippling bandwidth
• Save time and cost spent re-creating data
• Free up IT resources to pursue strategic business goals
• Maintain consistent, system-wide data protection policies
• Improve regulatory compliance for data protection
• Reduce the need for expensive outside expertise
• Automation eliminates human error, never “forgetting” to initiate backup
• Easier storage health assessment and reporting
• Implementation won’t interrupt normal operations

Platforms
Operating Systems
• Windows Server 2003 (Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions)
• Windows XP (TSM Express client installation)

Hardware
• x32 single or multi processor based systems
• x64 single or multi processor based systems


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