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Storage Defender

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Defender Data Protect backup all Kubernetes OpenShift namespaces

Openshift namespaces which starts with a preffix "openshift-" are system namespaces and usually they do not contain any persistent volume claim or any significant YAML object which can't be reproduce on another cluster. On the other hand, there is...
14 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Defender data Protect KVM Support

Customer is asking us for a VM backup solution , we was thinking to propose defender with DataProtect , but He is using , as hypervisor , KVM-based (Sangfor OS) and unfotunatly it is not supported. More and more customers are looking for an altern...
6 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

add a DMS portal for GEOs other than AWS-US.

The DMS portal of Defender is currently only available in AWS-US. For customers in Europe that have to deal with DORA, NIS2, GDPR and other topics find it hard or impossible to accept a critical application running outside of EU. Please roll-out a...
about 1 year ago in Storage Defender 1 Planned for future release

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...
9 months ago in Storage Defender 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...
6 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

IBM Storage Defender Data Protect support for Oracle oVirt

Oracle oVirt (bought by Oracle from Red Hat). Per the documentation, oVirt (Red Hat) was supported until version 6.1.8. Now oVirt is part of the new Oracle, but not yet officially supported by Data Protect.
about 1 month ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Requesting Storage Defender Development team to expedite development of support for Defender Sensors for Aix Os

In most of the engagements in select accounts in India , there is at least a 50 % prevalence of Aix hosts , I suspect the case to be similar for multiple accounts in ISA & APAC region. While currently we have sensors for Rhel 9 , Suse & Ub...
8 months ago in Storage Defender 6 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
almost 2 years ago in Storage Defender 1 Planned for future release

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...
8 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 year ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

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