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Improve the security for S3 buckets & SPP including support for SAML authentication.

Currently many tools that implement SSO (Single Sign-on) allow the use of SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) technology to raise the level of security and automate authentication with various tools. SAML is a standardized way of telling ext...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Object Lock / Immutability with SP/P with Hitachi Cloud Scale

In alignment with our Cyber Resiliency sales play many of our clients are looking at ways to utilise the assets they already have purchased to "sure up" their infrastructure. We know data management solutions are a target of internal and external ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

More detailed warning message

We had a data loss on our SPP infra, when administrator removed vSnap server. From operational point of view, issue is clear human error, but we recommend to use more efficient warning message than the one curently used (for example RED instead of...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1

Spectrum Protect Plus backup support for VMWare Tanzu TKG container environment

An important italian customer with a large SP and SPP installation has already implemented OpenShift backup with SPP. He has also container environments based on VMWare Tanzu TKG and he needs to protect such environment. My request is about the su...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP 3.rd recovery

Customer wants a third site for recovery. They are planning for a 3rd site recovery site to start up the workload from backup. Today we can recover SPP catalog from vsnaps. And the vsnaps can store data as archive to OSSM/S3/SP (this will act as s...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Protection of namespaces under AKS - Azure Kubernetes Services

We have customer in Brazil which would like to protect just the namespaces which they have on AKS, storing this backup on Azure Object Storage. Currently, SPP does not support AKS.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SCDM: Import existing GMCV relationships into CDM - take ownership back after change

SCDM only lets you create brand new relationships when managing a GMCV configuration. If existing relationships are present on the volumes (even if they were created by SCDM) you have to destroy them and then recreate - full initial re-sync necess...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Need to sort VSNAP by name or by site in SPP GUI

We have more than 60 VSNAPs and we need to sort them by name or by site
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to import OVL into ESX host without vCenter

In previous versions with the CentOS based OVL it was possible to import the SPP OVL into an ESX host running without vCenter. For the latest 10.1.11, RedHat based OVL this function is not working.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

encrypted standard/archive copy to S3 like SP

If I want to save the data securely in the cloud - without extra encryption of the buckets by S3 Provider, then the vSnap encryption on the VSnap doesn’t help either. The bucket file is always stored unencrypted. We would like to implement a func...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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