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    Threat Detection Sensor OpenShift

    IBM FlashSystem has RTD based on FCM4, Defender uses Sensor (in file-system) to detect threats. We should have similar functions in containerized Envirnments (Openshift) to detect and report an early attack
    about 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

    Provide vCenter Plugin for Spectrum Protect Plus

    ISPP is completely missing a vCenter plugin like ISP for VE. This is usually used by VMWare administrators and VM users to trigger ad hoc backups and restores by themselves. As ISPP is missing this plugin, this is not possible when moving from ISP...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    implement an "auto" setting for volume mirror sync rate

    currently the volume mirror sync rate can only be set to a fixed value. while it's great to have this real-time setting, it would be even more helpful to also have an "auto" setting for it to have the system decide at which rate it can sync/format...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Support for KVM

    We see more and more activity where people are leaving VMware for something that are better and cheaper. So we see more offend companies that want to replace VMware with KVM/oVirt so they can combine it with Openstack or similar automated hypervisor.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Allow editable threshold settings and client and/or type of client exceptions for security notifications

    Please make the thresholds for Operations Center Security notifications an editable setting. We have hundreds of security notifications daily that are not being reviewed since we can't manage them. Also many are API clients, which would typically ...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Future consideration

    TS7700 (TSSC) - Dual Control for operational activities

    Add Dual Control function to any operational activities on the TS7700 TSSC to increase resilience and protect from insider attacks as already implemented on the TS7700 HMC
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    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.
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Introduce new function to use native cloud bucket copy or replication function during our replication from cloud container storage

    Doing replication from cloud container storage is very challenge , slow and can cost $$. now more and more our users move data into cloud object storage, they also use our replication to replicate data to target server. this replication from cloud...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Scheduled Task action type improvements

    Use case: Proper automation of SGC backups in a MT topology. Backups are automated on Site 3, using GM secondaries H3 as SGC source. The automation should ensure to create backups, but prevent the DR RPO remains impacted if the backup task fails i...
    4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Request for a tape drive down function in the Storage Archive EE

    Request for a tape drive down function in the Storage Archive EE to prevent malfunction at the tape drive level when a drive failure is detected.
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Not under consideration

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