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Defender Data Protect/Replica

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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...
over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 2 Future consideration

Add ability in Data Management Service to perform most common Storage Protect actions

Monitoring of Storage Protect is very basic in the current release. The product shows how many alerts on the Storage Protect server but not what they are. Operations Center is still 100% necessary for Storage Protect management. Would like to allo...
almost 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Future consideration

Data Protect/DMS - support denser x86 servers, external JBODs, Fibre Channel attached storage (i.e. FlashSystem)

Ready Nodes not dense enough per RU in current iteration for large enterprises. Number of nodes also adds number of networking connections needed / TOR switches. This adds complexity and cost. We want to use dense COS-like tech with external JBODs...
almost 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Future consideration

DMS/Data Protect - Add DB2 backup support for other architectures (ppc64, s390x)

Today, DB2 backups are only supported on x86. Mainframe and Power customers would like to see DB2 for other architectures supported.
almost 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Future consideration

Support Linux on Z for DMS / Data Protect

Currently today the Defender Data Management Service / Data Protect only supports backups of x86 and Power. The IBM CIO team needs support for Linux on Z. They'd like to see the backup agent ported to Linux on Z. Other mainframe customers may want...
almost 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Future consideration