IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Replicate backups to S3 object-lock repository (e.g IBM COS, IBM Ceph)

Many of our IBM clients have listened to our cyber resiliency messaging and looked to re-introduce a "3rd" copy of the data. In alignment with industry standardization for "321" backup methodology it is important to have an isolated and secure rep...
3 days ago in Storage Defender 1 Submitted

Data Protect as part of IBM Storage Defender and improvement for cluster-failover

Assume there are two Data Protect Clusters in metro-distance (<30km). Both clusters are loosely coupled only. Just backup data itself are mirrored asynchronously, but no meta-data. What are the issues with that? As a consequence, in case of a f...
3 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Allow dynamic creation/modification of a DRS recovery profile

Let's imagine that the customer is having a changing environment that requires frequent update of its recovery profile, having a way to create,update,modify,delete recovery profile or its content would be helpful. The client , would then be able t...
about 1 month ago in Storage Defender 1 Planned for future release

Add AIX support to Storage Defender

Storage Defender lacks AIX support. Both are IBM products and why one IBM Product doesn't support another IBM product used by many IBM customers?
about 2 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Needs more information

IBM CDM and IBM Sentinel with central management across multiple sites

Most european customers running a separation between primary and backup data centers. IBM CopyDataManagement + IBM Sentinel should be able to work and manage SnapShots across multiple sites. IDEA and REQUEST FOR ENHANCEMENT An application-consiste...
3 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

add a DMS portal for GEOs other than AWS-US.

The DMS portal of Defender is currently only available in AWS-US. For customers in Europe that have to deal with DORA, NIS2, GDPR and other topics find it hard or impossible to accept a critical application running outside of EU. Please roll-out a...
3 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

Hyperlink SP4C login from Defender landing page

Customers who are seeking to purchase an end to end data resiliency platform have also indicated a need to backup cloud workloads from the same pane of glass. Storage Protect for Cloud is the best SaaS cloud backup solution in the market and by me...
3 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

Expand Defender Data Protect capabilities to include agent support for Proxmox hypervisors

The concept involves utilizing Defender Data Protect to seamlessly integrate with Proxmox VE for VM-consistent backups, granular file recovery, and employing the same techniques as it does with VMware. This includes features such as instant mass r...
4 months ago in Storage Defender 2 Not under consideration

Being able to trigger/initiate replication from a target server

This idea is following a discussion with a customer who is asking our data protection solutions ( being Storage Protect and Data Protect) to have the ability to trigger data replication in a way that replication is initiated by the target replicat...
4 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Not under consideration

Data Protect: Logos and EULA indicate Cohesity

For Data Protect, logos and EULA still say Cohesity-. This could be confusing to customers.
5 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Not under consideration

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