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consolidated ticket overview

In environments with many devices it would be very handy to have a consolidated view showing the status for all tickets of all devices. A simple table view would do, showing for example the device name, number of open tickets, number of closed tic...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Under review

Interactive performance charts

My general approach to performance cases is to select a rough wide timeline, and then to zoom in on the time of interest. The time selection in SI is a bit fiddly and not always the best user experience, especially if you have to do it multiple ti...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

Roadmap to integrate Storage Defender with Fusion

As clients move from VMWare to OpenShift, the workloads are more data intensive and mission critical. Fusion backup and recovery is market leading for container workloads. OpenShift VM backup and recovery is supported with guest agents from IBM St...
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Remote monitoring functionality for the IBM Storage Protect instances to avoid storage capacity shortages and address performance issues

IBM Storage Protect should provides a way to remotely monitor its insataces to storage capacity shortages and address performance issues. While I believe the best solution is to employ IBM Storage Insights to monitor capacity and performance stati...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

IBM SP4C - Automatically recover Microsoft Teams Tabs on the restore process

Customer has requested the ability for IBM SP4C to automatically recover Microsoft Teams Tabs on the restore process. While the current restore functionality works, it does not automatically restores tabs to their previous state, requiring users t...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 1 Under review

SP4C - Backing up Google Meet recordings & logs

The customer is considering SP4C to manage backups of Google Meet recordings and logs as part of their information governance strategy. As Meet recordings are typically stored in the organizer's Google Drive, the customer intends to utilize SP4C a...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Under review

REST API to get performance metrics (including RPO) for volume groups

Need a REST API to get the performance metrics for volume groups that are displayed in Storage Insights. This includes the RPO metrics.
6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

SP4C - Enhancement to the SP4C Exchange Online restore tab to match with the Microsoft 365/Outlook user experience

In the Exchange Online restore tab using Calendar Mode, the SP4C tool currently displays only the "Name" column when viewing user mailbox contents (Inbox, Archive, Calendar, etc.). The client desires an enhanced user experience within the SP4C res...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Under review

Support of X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD-TRAILER] in SP Object Agent

We backup up native Kubernetes workload with native Velero to SP Object Agent. Since Velero Version 1.13 the backup to SP Object Agent is not working anymore. Velero 1.14 uses AWS 1.10 plugins which internally uses X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

Enable DS8K range and TS7700 range to interface with Cyberark (password vault)

Currently we (Barclays) use Cyberark as a password repository. We store all our system userids (Admin/Customer) in cyberark and they are meant to be system managed i.e cyberark will change the passwords for those userids without manual interventio...
10 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review