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Add application aware backup and restore for Guardiaum Insights application

Client is running Guardium Insights in their OCP cluster, and are challenged with current data protection process, and need an enterprise level, automated application aware Backup & Restore solution for this environment.
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Support CEPH as S3 target on "cloud storage tier"

IBM is pursuing CEPH as one of the S3 solutions ( additional to IBM COS) We are wondering if we could certify CEPH S3 interface as TS7700 offload target for TS7770C so we have the chance to use IBM COS or CEPH when deploying IBM S3 solutions onprem
11 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Lack of anomaly scanning integration with IBM Spectrum Protect Family

Lack of anomaly scanning integration to detect, diagnose and recover clean copies from a Cyber attack with IBM Spectrum Protect Family.Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption an IBM supported Cyber Resiliency solution.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

Disable alerts when SLA has no VM

We would like an option to disable alerts when SLA has no VM
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SafeGuarded backup allocation using a pool concept

Customer is running Safe Guarded backups for a month (31 days) worth of backups on a daily schedule. They have around 3500 volumes. Many of these are involved in DB2 and ADBAS databses. These database volumes (as well as some system volumes) under...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

SPP progress on Job's

SPP does not show any proper progress details like for other admin job's
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

FS7200, use interfaces more dynamically

FS7200 network configuration is not suitable for our network design and security aspects.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

selectable DIO/nonDIO-Support on Storagepools

we are working now in our TSM-Environment with a complete implementation of GPFS as the the filesystem layer for our TSM-Plattfom on AIX and Linux. With the possibility to use many performance function in gpfs we can massively enhance our performa...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Retain last X backups beyond date based expiration

Retain a configurable amount of backups beyond date based retention, requiring administrator action to delete.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

CSM support for cascaded 4-site replication

Our 4-site environment is a cascaded replication from A-B-C-D where A-B is metro mirror, B-C is a Global mirror, C-D is a global copy. I see in CSM 6.2.6, there is a 4-site support added but it is a MMGMGCreplication., which is A-B (MM), A-C (GM),...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Future consideration

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