Hutchinson Regional Medical Center data backup success reaches 98.7% with IBM.

Utilizing IBM Tivoli Storage Manager on a private, hybrid cloud for data backup, protection and recovery the Hutchinson Regional Medical Center saves 12 hours per week in data backup time, while achieving 98.7% backup success and robust data restore and recovery capabilities. 

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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Hands-On Workshops

IBM Storage Management Labs

Wednesday, October 15th and/or Thursday, October 16th from 9am to 4pm in Dublin, Ohio

IBM is offering a local opportunity for interested parties in central Ohio to build technical skill using labs from the Pulse 2014 event.  Access to the labs is no cost to you.  These hands-on storage management labs are self-paced.  Perform one or more Pulse labs on either or both days.

Hands-on Labs:

• Hands-on labs provide an excellent opportunity to gain first-hand technical experience with IBM's products and solutions.
• Come to the lab room at your convenience and take as many of the labs as you like.
• Lab exercises are self-paced and designed to take between 45 and 90 minutes each.
• Don't miss this opportunity even if you have no gaps in your busy schedule.
• Subject Matter Experts will be on-site to point you to the topics that best fit your interest and to assist you with your lab exercises.
• Personalized Whiteboard Sessions are are available upon request.

Available labs in these technical areas:

• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager - Enterprise backup, archive, recovery, space management, database and application protection, and bare machine recovery and disaster recovery capabilities.
• TSM Operations Center Video
• TSM Suite for Unified Recovery Video
• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments - Provides advanced data protection and flexible recovery options for VMware vSphere ESX and ESXi servers.
• TSM for VE Video
• IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager - Perform and manage frequent, near-instant, non-destructive, application-aware backups and restore, leveraging advanced FlashCopy snapshot technologies in IBM and non-IBM storage systems.
• FlashCopy Manager Video

Click here for the specific labs to choose from.

Location:

• IBM, 4600 Lakehurst Court, Building One, Training Room C, Dublin, OH, 43016

Objective:

• Provide the opportunity for hands-on access to some our most popular software solutions in a lab/training environment.

Audience:

• The is workshop is appropriate for TSM administrators, storage administrators, VMware administrators, and SQL database administrators.

Cost:

• These sessions are offered free of charge.  
• Participants are responsible for their own business travel expenses. (*Meals are being provided for attendees who are permitted to accept vendor meals. For example, non-government employees and contractors.)

Schedule:

• October 15th and/or October 16th, 9am - 4pm

Enrollment:

• To request enrollment in one of our scheduled meetings, send an e-mail with the requested lab:
• Subject Line = "IBM Workshop Lab - Enrollment Request"
• Please be sure to include the following in body of email:  Your name, e-mail address, phone number, company/organization name, and lab session requested.
• Seating is limited.  Enrollments will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis.  A confirmation e-mail will be sent approximately one week prior to the workshop.

IBM Storage Software Hands-On Lab - You Are Invited!

Grand Rapids, MI   |   Wednesday, Sep 3   |   9am - 4pm

Clients only.  No Business Partners.

Come join us at the Grand Rapids IBM Center @ 2900 Charlevoix Dr Se Grand Rapids, MI 49546-7085 for a day of hands-on storage management labs that are self-paced, and designed with you in mind.  

Take advantage of these free services to hone your skills or to tackle areas that have long peaked your business interests. 

Hands-on Labs:

• Hands-on labs provide an excellent opportunity to gain first-hand technical experience with IBM’s products and solutions.
• Come to the lab room at your convenience and take as many of the labs as you like.
• Lab exercises are self-paced and designed to take between 45 and 90 minutes each.
• Don’t miss this opportunity even if you have no gaps in your busy schedule.
• Subject Matter Experts will be on-site to point you to the topics that best fit your interests and to assist you with your lab exercise.
• Personalized Whiteboard sessions are available upon request.

Multiple labs are available under the following lead topics:

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager – Enterprise backup, archive, recovery, space management, database and application protection, and bare machine recovery and disaster recovery capabilities.  

• TSM Operations Center - video
• TSM Suite for Unified Recovery - video

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments - Provides advanced data protection and flexible recovery options for VMware vSphere ESX and ESXi servers.

• TSM for VE - video

IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager - Perform and manage frequent, near-instant, nondisruptive, application-aware backups and restores, leveraging advanced FlashCopy snapshot technologies in IBM and non-IBM storage systems.

• FlashCopy Video - YouTube

IBM Virtual Storage Center - Storage virtualization resource management software for managing heterogeneous storage infrastructures through a centralized, web-based management console that helps with day to day storage provisioning, performance management, data replication requirements, with increased storage utilization and automated storage tiering.  Inclusive of Tivoli Productivity Center, San Volume Controller and FlashCopy Manager.

• IBM Virtual Storage Center – video

Lab Details

OBJECTIVE:  Provide the opportunity for hands on access to some of our most popular software solutions in a lab/training environment.

AUDIENCE:  This workshop is appropriate for TSM Administrators, storage administrators, VMware administrators and SQL Data Base administrators.

COST:  This session is offered free of charge. Participants are responsible for their own business travel expenses. (* Meals are being provided for attendees who are permitted to accept vendor meals, for example, non-government employees and contractors)

SCHEDULE:  This 1-day workshop will start at 9:00 AM and end at approximately 4:00 PM. The date is TBD, based on client interest.

ENROLLMENT:  If you are interested, please send an e-mail to me at jagaeta@us.ibm.com with the following information:

• Subject Line:  "IBM Workshop Lab - Enrollment Request"
• Your name
• Your e-mail address
• Your phone number
• You company/organization name
• Lab Session Requested (Tivoli Storage Manager, Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments, Tivoli Storage Flashcopy Manager, Virtual Storage Center)

Seating is limited. Enrollments will be processed on a first come first serve basis. A confirmation email will be sent approximately one week prior to the workshop.

IBM Reduces Storage TCO by up to 72% Compared to EMC

Read ITG's brand-new Executive Brief here.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Infographic

This IBM Smarter Backup and Recovery Infographic demonstrates how the Tivoli Storage Manager family of products, IBM's market-leading backup and recovery software, enables clients to reduce cost and complexity of data protection with simplicity, scalability and efficiency.

Learn more and contact me today @ ibm.com/myrep/jagaeta.

Free Webinar: Taking back your Storage Environment with IBM Virtual Storage Center (May 15th @ 2pm EDT)

The IBM Virtual Storage Center (VSC)  has long been recognized as the industry leaders in storage virtualization and data management.  VSC delivers enterprise-class disk storage virtualization providing clients with the ability to:

• virtualize and efficiently manage storage systems...from all major vendors!
• create opportunities to consolidate systems!
• increase utilization up to 100%!
• drive new levels of availability and significantly reduce storage costs!
• enable non-experts to manage and provision storage assets!

With the recent announcement of VSC 5.2 the innovation continues!  This release delivers significant enhancements in function, including IBM's first to market automatic tiering capability that allows data movement between logical storage pools without impacting application availability.  VSC now incorporates IBM's best of breed "Intelligent Analytics" software to make migration recommendations based on historical performance!  This unique Tiered Storage Optimizer function has saved IBM millions of dollars in our own internal storage environment and we're now providing our clients with the same business opportunity.  VSC also allows clients to take advantage of IBM's Real Time Compression technology, which can reduce database storage requirements by up to 85%, redefining the meaning of an efficient storage strategy.

But don't just take our word for it...join us on May 15th at 2PM ET when IBM will be hosting a Customer Webinar on Virtual Storage Center.  This webinar will include a customer speaker who can attest to the business value of VSC and IBM's Real Time Compression technology as well as a technical expert who will give you a real time demonstration of how these technologies are transforming thousands of customers storage environments.

Click HERE to access the registration link to our webinar: 

Taking back your Storage Environment

with IBM Virtual Storage Center.  

I hope you will take just an hour out of your day on May 15th to explore the possibilities with us.

In addition to the many functional enhancements we've made, IBM announced in March the Virtual Storage Center Entry Edition providing clients with smaller storage infrastructures the opportunity to experience extraordinary savings from an offering built just for them.

I hope you find this information helpful as you consider ways to reduce your storage infrastructure spend. Feel free to contact me to schedule a mutually convenient time to discuss the benefits of a virtualized storage environment and opportunities to save you money.

Tivoli Storage Manager User? Why should you upgrade?

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Check Out Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center!

The next generation of backup administration can dramatically improve simplicity, scalability and backup quality. See how IBM's advanced interface for Tivoli Storage Manager enables consolidation, intuitive problem resolution and integrated team collaboration.

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center: Maximizing Value with IBM Software Subscription and Support

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center is an industry-leading storage resource management software that provides comprehensive visibility, control and automation for managing heterogeneous storage infrastructures through a centralized, web-based management console.

Tivoli Storage Productivity Center is designed to provide storage infrastructure management capabilities such as automated system discovery, provisioning, configuration management, performance monitoring and replication for storage systems and storage networks. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center provides storage administrators a simple way to conduct device management for multiple storage arrays and SAN fabric components.

Contact me to learn more.

STORServer Wins 2014 IBM Beacon Award

STORServer, Inc. wins 2014 IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Solution for Midsize Businesses

IBM Beacon Awards recognize IBM Business Partners for driving business value with smart, innovative solutions

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 11, 2014) --STORServer®, a leading provider of proven data backup solutions, has been named a winner of a 2014 IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Solution for Midsize Businesses. Each year, this honor is awarded to a select number of IBM Business Partners who have delivered exceptional solutions to drive business value and transform the way their clients and industries do business.

"We are honored to be recognized by IBM a as a leader in delivering advanced solutions proven to drive business value for our customers," said Bill Smoldt, president and CEO, STORServer. "The true innovation behind the STORServer Backup Appliance is that the solution solves companies' backup, archive and disaster recovery challenges once and for all. We're proud to be a leader in this market and an IBM Business Partner."

The Beacon Awards are IBM's premier Business Partner recognition program. Announced at the IBM
PartnerWorld Leadership Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, and selected by leading industry influencers and IBM executives from among hundreds of nominations, IBM's Beacon Awards recognize IBM Business Partners who have demonstrated business excellence in delivering IBM-based solutions resulting in client transformation and business growth. This year's awards recognized Business Partner achievements across 27 award categories.

"This year's Beacon Award winners are Business Partners who have truly demonstrated their ability to develop new, advanced approaches to solving challenges while also transforming the way their clients and industries conduct business," said Marc Dupaquier, general manager, IBM Global Business Partners. "We're honored to recognize STORServer for winning the Beacon Award for Outstanding Solution for Midsize Businesses and consistently delivering value to our mutual clients."

Powered by Tivoli Storage Manager, STORServer offers a complete suite of enterprise backup appliances, software and services that solve today's backup, archive and disaster recovery challenges.

For more information on STORServer's line of data backup solutions, contact me.

For more information about the IBM Beacon Awards, including information about this year's winners and finalists, click here.

Three Killer Apps for Virtualized Storage

See how you can quickly turn existing storage into cloud storage, use Analytics Driven Data Management to reduce users' cost of storage up to 50%, and standardize advanced data protection capability across storage systems with IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center v5.2.

Video originally published on Sep 13, 2013 by the IBM Corporation.

Form more information visit: http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/us/en/vsc

Save Time and Valuable Resources with a STORServer Appliance for a Turn-Key Backup Solution!

What Is A STORServer Backup Appliance?
STORServer Data Sheet                     IDC Vendor Profile

• The Competitive Leader In Data Protection with Appliances:
• Turn-key solution for backup, archive, and disaster recovery. 
• Includes hardware, software, installation, training and support. 
• Scalable, full-feature solution for offices up to enterprise datacenters. 
• Network implementation, capable of backing up all popular machines.
• LAN, WAN, SAN, and DAS
• Automates Data Protection
• Easy to learn, manage and install (typical install is days, not weeks)
• OTTC (One Throat To Choke) Support
• Easy migration with technology evolution
• Maximizes Return On Investment and reduces Total Cost of Ownership

Scalable to meet the needs of small office environments – from 2-10 Tbytes up to large datacenters with many hundreds of Tbytes.  Based on “Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) for each customer the requirements will be different.  Plus, the Service Level Agreements for the type of support contract (SLA) each customer has their own expectations.

The STORServer appliances size more toward how much data changes in an environment every day rather than the total amount of data to backup or archive.  Since STORServer appliances only backup changes, keeping track of everything already backed up, this daily change rate establishes the processing power and appliance strength needed.

Each backup appliance can tackle up to 4 Billion objects at a time, so the sizing for any one appliance relies upon the daily traffic required.

STORServer’s models allow customers to tailor a solution combining the best of servers, storage (disk, tape or SSD), licensing and support.  Cloud locations for disaster recovery are also available in all models.

Scalable in every aspect, the STORServer will grow as you grow by adding new features, upgrading server, and storage options.

Contact me today to learn more!

IBM Tivoli Storage Management Solutions Help Manage Patient Data Availability

Published on May 11, 2013 by IBM Service Management TV.



By using the latest technology in IBM Storage Management, Kindred Healthcare is able to manage back-up and recovery and ensure the availability of growing volumes of patient data.

Download the Analyst Report here.

Hands-On Workshop: Tivoli Storage Manager Ops Center

An IBM Proof of Technology

The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center is a new web-based graphical user interface for managing your TSM environment.

• The TSM Operations Center provides a simple to use and easily navigated view of your TSM environment
• A new customizable alerting capability has been added
• Problems can be easily assigned and routed between administrators, operators and help-desks potentially reducing errors and costs

This workshop is designed to demonstrate the capabilities of TSM Operations Center. Attendees will receive hands-on experience with the Operations Center. The workshop shows how to navigate through the Operations Center, how to add a spoke server, how to utilize the command builder, and how to assign alerts to specific administrators.

This one-day workshop consists of:

• Presentation: Features and Benefits of TSM Operations Center
• Hands-On Lab: TSM Operations Center
• Presentation: Features and Benefits of TSM Reporting
• Hands-On Lab / Demonstration: TSM Reporting
• TSM Q & A Session
• Continental Breakfast & Lunch are provided*

OBJECTIVE

The objective of this session is to demonstrate the usability of TSM Operations Center. This Proof of Technology (PoT) will help attendees to evaluate the new TSM Operations Center capabilities while demonstrating its features through a hands-on lab.

AUDIENCE

This workshop is appropriate for TSM Administrators who would like an introduction to TSM Operations Center.

COST

This session is offered free of charge. Participants are responsible for their own business travel expenses.

(* Meals are being provided for attendees who are permitted to accept vendor meals, for example, non-government employees and contractors )

SCHEDULE

This 1-day workshop will start at 9:00 AM and end at approximately 4:00 PM. The following dates & IBM Classroom locations are scheduled:

• August 19, 2013 - Southfield, MI 
• 18000 West Nine Mile Road, Southfield, MI 48086: 15th Floor, Room 1505
• August 21, 2013 - Cleveland, OH 
• 6100 Oak Tree Blvd, Cleveland, OH 44131: 4th Floor, Classroom 102
• August 23, 2013 - Pittsburgh, PA 
• 11 Stanwix Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222: 9th Floor, Room 910-A
• August 26, 2013 - Columbus, OH 
• 4600 Lakehurst Court, Dublin OH 43016: Building 1, Auditorium A
• August 28, 2013 - Louisville, KY 
• 9780 Ormsby Station Road, Louisville, KY 40223: Suite 1400, Room 105
• September 24, 2013 - Boca Raton, FL 
• 8051 Congress Ave, Boca Raton, FL 33487:  1st Floor, Room 115
• September 26, 2013 - Tampa, FL  
• 3031 North Rocky Pt Dr. West, Tampa, FL  33607:  5th Floor, Rooms 595-597
• September 27, 2013 - Orlando, FL  
• 800 N Magnolia AVe, One Orlando Center, Orlando, FL  32803:  16th Floor, Room 1604

ENROLLMENT
To request enrollment in a TSM Operations Center Workshop listed above, please contact me via my rep page at ibm.com/myrep/jagaeta.

Let me help you find new ways to drive greater value from your storage software and hardware investments.

On September 24th of last year, IBM acquired Butterfly Ltd, in order to help our clients find new ways to drive greater value from its storage software and hardware investments.

The focus of the Butterfly assessment is about improving your total cost of ownership, reducing risk and allowing you to adapt to rapidly changing market factors that impact your storage needs.

Using the tools from Butterfly, IBM can provides automated discovery and analysis of your backup environment using empirical data gathered in minutes!  It is not speculative or estimated and unlike many assessments, does not require hours of interviews with your staff.

This data is analyzed and you are provided with a complete visualization of your current environment showing data growth projections, backup policies and occupancy by retention period. This snapshot also recommends a target environment based on a mapping of your needs and existing situation.

The target solution shows a unified solution designed to accommodate 36 months of growth, including legacy data, which as an option, also resolves problems reported by you during the date collection process. In addition to identifying resolved operational issues, a migration plan to the target solution provides high-level project planning.

A differential business cases is presented comparing this target architecture with the one currently installed providing operational and financial projections over a three year period to demonstrate growth and expansion effects both visually and in tabular format.  Consider Butterfly your 3-year Cost of Ownership Assessment for your backup & recovery infrastructure.

Click here to read the white paper.

Please contact me to discuss leveraging Butterfly to help lay the groundwork for improved storage infrastructure optimization at your company.

Amazing! IBM Makes a Movie Out of Atoms

The following article was originally published at Time.com by Harry McCracken on May 1st, 2013.

© 2013 Time Inc

A Boy and His Atom is less than 90 seconds long. It doesn’t have much of a plot, or any big laughs. And the animation is rudimentary — it’s monochromatic, blocky and generally reminiscent of the graphics I programmed on my Radio Shack TRS-80 computer in 1978, only not quite as fancy.

And yet IBM’s new cartoon — yes, IBM made a cartoon — is remarkable. It was produced at IBM Research’s Almaden Research Center in Northern California, by a bunch of scientists who used a scanning tunneling microscope as their animation tool. The pixels are individual atoms, nudged into place to form a picture. (The Guinness folks have certified this as the smallest movie ever made.)

IBM has been playing around with individual atoms for a long time: two of its Zurich-based researchers invented the scanning tunneling microscope in 1981 and won the Nobel Prize in Physics for it in 1986. The company’s Silicon Valley lab — where the hard disk was born in 1956 — uses the microscope to explore futuristic storage technologies. By using a tiny magnet, it’s shown that it’s possible to store one bit of information using 12 atoms, versus the 1 million atoms a hard drive needs to do the job. That discovery could eventually lead to digital storage that crams radically more data into far less space than any existing technology.

IBM’s atomic-animation equipment

The microscope needs “a low temperature in a very, very clean environment, so the only atoms that are there are the ones we want to be there,” says IBM researcher Andreas Heinrich. “The devil is in the details, as usual — it’s a complicated machine, but it can work very reliably.”

It occurred to the Almaden researchers that if you can use a subminiature magnet to flip bits on and off, you could also use it to create frames of animation. Over roughly 10 18-hour workdays, a team of four people created the cartoon, with storytelling assistance from an animation company called 1st Ave. Machine. Using the microscope to position individual atoms, Heinrich explains, is a bit like placing eggs in an egg cartoon: you push them in a general direction, and they plop into the precise spot where they want to sit.

The moviemakers had a total of about 10,000 atoms’ worth of resolution to work with, which didn’t seem like much at first. But “you can actually see his surprise when the trampoline appears,” says Heinrich, speaking of the movie’s stick-figure protagonist. “His hair is moving, his eyes are blinking — that’s the genius in the design.” The whole thing takes up 242 frames of action.

Here’s IBM’s own movie on the making of A Boy and His Atom.

Will IBM produce any sequels to its first atomic cartoon? It has no plans to go back to the, um, drawing board. “We don’t want to make movies for making movies’ sake,” Heinrich says. “Hopefully this will resonate, and people will get interested in science.” If the supershort tale has a message, it’s that “science can be fun — go study science, basically.”

Sprint Uses IBM Storage Solutions

Watch this video to learn how IBM Storage solutions helped Sprint slash maintenance costs

by 60%, increase utilization by 45%, and more effectively utilize lower cost tier 2 storage

and their existing infrastructure.

To learn more, contact me at ibm.com/myrep/jagaeta today!

How IBM Tivoli Storage Solutions Save IBM Money (And How They Can Help YOUR Company)

Learn how IBM leverages their own storage solutions to help manage their explosion of data growth of 25% - 40% year over year.

The IBM CIO office uses Tivoli Storage Manager to help them manage and protect data in 8 data centers and includes over 110 petabytes of data. Using new techniques that both Tivoli Storage Manager and Tivoli Productivity Center offer, the IBM CIO office can address data compression, data de-duplication, and storage virtualization to help manage data growth. They have experienced a cost savings of up to 50% in storage costs per gigabyte. Further, by leverage Tivoli storage cloud technologies for easier self-provisioning, they have experienced over 90% storage utilization.

Discussing Data Backup at IBM Pulse 2013

Todd Watson talks with Jason Buffington and Tom Hughes about three IT trends that are disrupting traditional data protection strategies and legacy approaches:

• Highly Virtualized / Private Cloud Infrastructures
• Cloud-based Solutions for backup & storage
• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) for endpoint protection

Are Your Backups Still Killing You?

Are Your Backups Still Killing You? Join CHATR, STORServer and IBM for an informative webinar to learn about the industry leading backup appliance technology. This is the all-in-one, automated backup solution! The award-winning STORServer solution provides: On-site install in 1 day 15 minutes a day to manage Built-in data deduplication Unified data recovery across broadest range of operating systems and hardware platforms Integrated DB2 database for rock solid reliability All support calls direct to US based engineers who only support STORServer appliances Data Protection Webinar 09/12/2012 - 10:00 EDT “We can now restore files in an instant and perform a full server restore in under four hours.” —Ankur Patel, IT Director, Housing Works IBM is the industry's leading provider of backup technology, Tivoli® Storage Manager (TSM). STORServer is the original provider of the Backup Appliance solution, a purpose-built, TSM driven backup appliance simplified for the mid-market. Yes! Ensure my seat at one of these events. I can't attend but would like to stay informed of future events.

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