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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...
5 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Fusion B/R Support for Vanilla Kubernetes

Add support to backup and restore Vanilla Kubernetes into Storage Fusion SDS & HCI.
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Provide backup and restore capabilities for data residing on S3 on/off prem buckets with Defender Data Protect

Many customers are using object storage thru S3 as repository for important data like surveillance, financial documents and other critical workloads. Although object storage has its own resiliency features, they're most liked focused on replicatio...
3 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Rebalance client nodes between multiple IBM Storage Protect instances to avoid storage capacity shortages and address performance concerns

IBM Storage Protect should provides a way to transparently rebalance nodes between multiple IBM Storage Protect instances to avoid storage capacity shortages and address performance concerns. Currently, IBM Storage Protect, unfortunately, lacks th...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Two-person Integrity for Safeguarded Tape in the RestAPI

Because of our Safeguarded Tape implementation we see many gaps in the security of the current ts4500-java-cli.  As stated with dev the goal is to implement all the security requirements on Rest API.  These changes include addi...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Future consideration

Dark site - Airgapped installation of S. Defender

There are multiple situations where SaaS deployment cannot be done per security restrictions. We need an option to have S.Defender control plane deployed onprem as not always cloud deployment is possible
over 1 year ago in Storage Defender 1 Planned for future release

Password rules should not apply to ID'S with no GUI access

We have an automation ID that does not have GUI access, but we want to implement password rules. Currently the version of 6.3.12 only provides an all or nothing feature for password rules. I would suggest excluding automation ID'S from password va...
17 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Submitted

DNS names instead of IP addresses in TS4500

In TS4500 I can not use DNS names for define Syslog or encription server, Only IP addresses are allowed. It's problematic when using certificates signed by our authority and use IP address in SAN is not common.
about 2 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Is a defect

command line for the admin console gui for IBM Storage Copy Data Management software

We would like to automate the backup of the Catalog Manager in the Backup Catalog . Currently we need to log into the gui and click backup daily. We might miss this over weekends and would be a big issue if we restore an old catalog. We have used ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Under review

Increase consistency group 512 volume maximum to at least 2048

Current IBMi client has 498 volumes running on FS9500. Existing DS8K systems each have over 1,500 volume, preventing them from using more FlashSystems. Minimum # of volumes would need to be 2,048 but more would account for future growth.
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

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