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Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS)

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Being able to define an IP white listing to access the Defender Services DMS and DRS

DMS and DRS are SaaS based services which are widely accessible from the Internet. Although there are strong authentication, MFA and other security mechanism controlling the access, some clients are requesting the possibility to restrict access to...
over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

Support RHEL as OS for Storage Sentinel SCAN server

Now, it is only supported SLES 15.4 as OS for Storage Sentinel SCAN server. But, my client and many customers in the world are using RHEL(x86_64) as OS for IA-Linux environment. Providing additional SLES, not RHEL is an unacceptable requirement fo...

Hyperlink SP4C login from Defender landing page

Customers who are seeking to purchase an end to end data resiliency platform have also indicated a need to backup cloud workloads from the same pane of glass. Storage Protect for Cloud is the best SaaS cloud backup solution in the market and by me...
about 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 2 Future consideration

Add AIX support to Storage Defender

Storage Defender lacks AIX support. Both are IBM products and why one IBM Product doesn't support another IBM product used by many IBM customers?
almost 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Needs more information

Integration between Defender DRS and IBM Concert

There is more and more focus on security, there is a need to automatic information gathering for everything that is helpful to manage CVE and Security Certificate (SSL/TLS) . DRS is being connected to different Data sources, from infrastucture com...
7 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

Disable attempts to cleanup IBM Flash array snapshots after Devender SAN backup/restore

When the current version of Defender runs a backup or recovery operation for a SAN source, a snapshot will be created of the configured storage, the backup/recovery operation completed and then a cleanup of the snapshot is attempted. Normally this...
4 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Under review

Defender Sensor: Add OS support for AIX/Power platform

For the last couple of years and probably decades, we have told customers that their very business-critical applications should be running on Power/AIX platform. With our Defender strategy, we want to specifically tackle those business-critical ap...
over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Planned for future release

Integrate GKLM into Defender for Key Management/Monitoring

Integrate IBM Storage Defender with IBM Global Key Lifecycle Management (GKLM) to enhance key management and monitoring capabilities. Objectives: Enable Storage Defender’s Disaster Recovery Service (DRS) to recognize and interface with GKLM server...
10 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 2 Under review

Add support for Rapid7 SIEM

Storage Defender SIEM integration obviously provides many benefits.Rapid7's InsightIDR SIEM is used for our Production SIEM. Please add support for Defender to integrate with InsightIDR SIEM, or at least the capability to receive and log events se...
over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

Allow dynamic creation/modification of a DRS recovery profile

Let's imagine that the customer is having a changing environment that requires frequent update of its recovery profile, having a way to create,update,modify,delete recovery profile or its content would be helpful. The client , would then be able t...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Planned for future release