How well is your Tivoli Storage Manager Performing?
Implementing an IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (ITSM) solution is an important undertaking, however maintaining both effective and efficient performance is key!

Let’s ask a few questions to test how you are doing:

1. Is your ITSM software current and up to date?
2. Are you following “best practices” in your data management policies?
3. Is your current capacity of the ITSM server and its peripherals meeting growth requirements?
4. Is your current ITSM environment scalable?
5. Are you taking advantages of all of the ITSM features and functions for your environment?
6. Are your Disaster Recovery Plans current and do they include both ITSM server and ITSM Clients?
7. Are you meeting your backup windows?

IT managers must develop a strategic approach and implement best practices that protect their important asset: the data supporting applications. Many storage management tools are available to protect data through routine backups and centrally manage the information grid, but such tools alone are insufficient for organizations to maintain their data protection needs. The strategic approach, a distributed storage management solution, ensures not only that the data is backed up but also that the entire information grid can be recreated in business-need priority in case of disaster.

By implementing a strategic storage management approach, IT Managers can do the following:

• Minimize the resources consumed for storage management operations by transferring and storing the least amount of information necessary to protect the information grid

• Extend the life of their current network infrastructure and processing power

• Produce greater returns with lower media costs on the company’s investment in secondary tape resources

Every organization has unique needs.  IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager Operational Review will strategically capture “what you are doing” as well as “how you are doing”  A Tivoli Associates Storage Management Specialist will spend one week at your location to properly assess and tune your IBM Tivoli Storage Manager backup server environment.  The base service allows for one ITSM server, additional charges may apply for more than one ITSM server or inclusion of your client environment.