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    Support for Azure MFA and other MFA providers

    Given the focus on security, it would be of real benefit if the Spectrum Suite of applications (but specifically Protect, Protect Plus, Operations Centre) could support MFA for administrator logon, in particular Azure MFA.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Use raid or erasure coding when storing data on tape

    As tape media grows in size, the loss on one tape, maybe 40Tb of data, can be a very harmful. Data should be stored on tapes using erasure coding or raid5 technology. Then data can be recovered and the lost tape can be regenerated. This will great...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    vSphere Web Client Integration

    VMware admins and operations work in vSphere Web Client. Customer need to be able to perform the backup/recovery duties from vSphere Web Client.SPP need an extention like DP for VMware provides.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    SAEE - Ability to change behavior of tape drive selection mechanism for transparent recalls to use also redundant copy and distribute workload to all copies

    Customer can use all available HW resources - all tape drives in all tape libraries for transparent recalls and increase throughput of recalls. It could be fine If I can set copies which will be available for transparent recalls. Customer faces pr...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

    Provide additional protection when using the decommission command against Oracle or DB2 nodes.

    Spectrum Protect Oracle and DB2 client decommission can lead to immediate data expiration and data loss. Due to the copygroup settings required for Oracle and DB2, the risk of using the decommission node command can inadvertently lead to data loss...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Reflink/ficlone support

    reflink/ficlone is a system call for making clones of files, where all data blocks is initially shared, and changes are then done through copy-on-write/redirect-on-write. This can be done through "cp --reflink", or IOCTL_FICLONERANGE system call. ...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Multiple tenants SPP catalog backups to single external vsnap

    Add support for replicating multiple SPP catalog backups to a single external VSNAP that is only visible the source server account.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    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...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Add Nutanix Acropolis AHV as supported SPP Hypervisor

    Please add Nutanix Acropolis AHV hypervisor to the supported Spectrum Protect Plus hypervisors.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Protect S3 object client via storage rule for copying data

    We are using SPP and want that the VMs are directly restorable in a DR case. Currently we are using on the ISP server a directory container and protect it with "protect stgp" via copycontainer and stgrule (copy data -> offsite tape) to be prepa...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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