IBM White Paper Sample

The emphasis on quickly restoring data is the key to maintaining mission and business critical applications. By delivering high RPO and RTO levels with lower costs, businesses gain a competitive advantage through increased productivity and performance, while meeting retention mandates. Increasing amounts of corporate data residing in distributed environments such as Remote Offices or Branch Offices (ROBO) compound the data protection issues.

Often, remote offices do not have a resident technical staff, or the bandwidth to support the requirements of user or application needs for effective backup and restore. This lack of resources often leads to an inability to correct problems before they lead to loss of data, or reduced service levels.

The common reliance on tape backup is an even greater issue in ROBO environments. While systems may be reliable, data protection processes may not be. Thus, traditional solutions coupled with a lack of dedicated remote staff may result in lower service levels or irrecoverable data loss. These problems grow as the amount of data and number of systems and sites increases.

ROBO environments also may have different applications that require different data protection strategies. TSM FastBack Xpress Restore enables single or multi-site environments to fully automate and centralize the management of all backup and recovery processes.