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Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS)

    Sentinel Integration into Defender

    IBM Storage Sentinel must be functionally integrated with IBM Storage Defender, specifically with the Data Resiliency Service (DRS). This integration should allow Sentinel's ransomware detection results to be consumed directly by DRS, enabling aut...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

    allow automatic recovery group and application definition by integration with 3rd party CMDB

    customers need to manually build applications, even if they auto generate recovery groups. Recovery groups are not auto-generated from the CMDB
    2 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Future consideration

    Offline/manual install of Defeder Sensors in VMs

    Defender Sensors are currently only installable from the DRS UI. Installation/upgrade from DRS require network connectivity and FW openings from the on-premises Connection Manager(s) directly or through a Defender Sensor Control node to the VM(s) ...
    10 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Future consideration

    Additional OS Support for Storage Defender Sensors

    IBM Storage Defender includes Sensors that are invented by IBM Research and are first active AI-backed threat detection against malware filesystem activity tye of sensors in market. The additional file-level ransomware active threat detection prov...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 2 Future consideration

    Launch Defender Licensing calculator service to enable self-service license planning

    There's a need to launch a Defender Licensing calculator service within the platform to increase transparency and enable self-service for Defender customers The information and platform is already available within IBM and IBM Ecosystem organizatio...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 2 Future consideration

    Call home for Storage Defender

    IBM Storage Defender does not yet have an integrated call home solution to send hardware logs to IBM Support and thus facilitate the replacement of defective equipment. In this case, I suggest creating a solution that identifies if the client is u...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Planned for future release

    SCDM support on Other Hypervisors such as KVM, Hyper-V ... and also make it available as a standalone binary to de deployed on both PowerVM (Linux and/or AIX) and x86 Linux.

    With the recent VMware licensing changes a lot of customers has moved away from it and adopting other hypervisors. In Sentinel Bundle the SCDM component which plays the role of external orchestrator to the storage is only supported on VMware see h...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

    IBM CDM and IBM Sentinel with central management across multiple sites

    Most european customers running a separation between primary and backup data centers. IBM CopyDataManagement + IBM Sentinel should be able to work and manage SnapShots across multiple sites. IDEA and REQUEST FOR ENHANCEMENT An application-consiste...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

    Enable searching/filtering for VMware tags and folders during RG creation

    A lot of customers already use VMware tags and VMware folders to organize their VMware environment which could be used to leverage during grouping of Resources. For creating Recovery groups, it would be helpful to search/filter for those within ma...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Future consideration

    allow to update the Defender Connection Manager with a HTTPS certificate signed by client CA, 2 tier PKI, certificates must include correct CN and SAN with FQDN

    Related product: IBM Defender Connection Manager Idea: Establish a process in the Connection Manager GUI or on cmd line (similar to the backup / restore script) to create a new CSR = Certificate Signing Request and install a client provided certif...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Future consideration

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