These days, every company has a data protection solution in place, and will need to explore numerous software options each hardware refresh cycle. To help make your refresh decisions go more smoothly, we have some points to consider. These basic features should be relatively equal across the industry leaders: The efficacy of data protection The…
STORServer, a provider of proven enterprise data backup solutions, today announces the release of its converged data protection appliances leveraging IBM® Spectrum Protect™ Plus. Providing a method to simplify data protection, the STORServer appliances use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, designed for easy setup, management and recovery. Created for virtual machine (VM) backups and administrators, IBM…
For today’s government agencies, the days of relying on traditional tape storage may be numbered. Many federal, local and state government organizations have been transitioning to the cloud for a more responsive and convenient backup solution. Here are four important reasons government agencies should move their data backup to the cloud. Eliminate the inconvenience of…
As part of my role as a technical writer and user advocate at STORServer, I need to understand and document changes in behavior between different versions of our software. While doing that recently, with STORServer Console (SSC), I decided to uninstall the latest test software from engineering and install an earlier, released version of SSC…
My husband, Jeff, has been in the heating and cooling industry his entire career. He started out as a dispatcher for an HVAC company during college, has worked for a large manufacturer of HVAC units and now owns his own company. In the HVAC industry, buyers need the best deal and the highest quality equipment…
The enhanced STORServer backup appliances extend STORServer’s commitment to deliver simplicity, power and trusted support for enterprise data protection, enabling customers to begin corporate-wide backup operations in less than one day.
“STORServer and IBM continue to offer the only built-to-order enterprise backup appliances with guaranteed data protection and recovery,” said Bill Smoldt, president at STORServer. “By simplifying the management of backup, archive and disaster recovery with STORServer’s proven architecture, enterprises can quickly adapt and respond to rapidly changing business needs.”
If you’re currently a STORServer IBM® Spectrum® Protect, formerly IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager (TSM) appliance customer with a processor value unit (PVU) license today, and are facing issues with spiraling data growth, now is a good time to consider converting to a capacity licensing strategy. Three important reasons why a capacity licensing model may make…
It was all over Twitter the other week, so I tried it. Me- the media-centric, math-disliking, non-scientific, non-techie, employee of STORServer. Last month, I coded. The idea of coding always managed to stake some fear into my heart. My dad is in IT, and the man is smart. I also have a vivid memory of my…
As a followup to our previous post on choosing DR solutions I wanted to focus on cloud-based DR. Backing up data in the cloud has become a common theme for businesses who are striving to keep up with the changing times. Cloud backup or storage, as a whole, has become technically simple and economically viable…