However, many businesses cannot afford the luxury of fields of hardware, complex software solutions and a dedicated storage administrative team. You must operate as efficiently and effectively as possible on much smaller budgets and fewer staff. You need solutions that work out of the box, are affordably priced, easily managed and deliver reliable, robust backup and recovery services.
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Express is designed to meet your business needs. Competitively priced for all budgets, Tivoli Storage Manager Express uses the proven technology of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager to reliably backup and recover your vital data. It doesn't require a dedicated storage administer to run it, plus it provides email reminders and on screen guidance about what management tasks need to be done. Tivoli Storage Manager Express backs up directly to disk and uses the familiar "son-father-grandfather" hierarchy. Off-site backups can be created to tape at a time during the day that meets the administrator's schedule. It can be installed, configured and conducting its first full backup in less than 30 minutes.
Tivoli Storage Manager Express agents support backup for SQL and Microsoft Exchange applications, so you ensure your environment is protected.
Tivoli Storage Manager Express, unlike many small and midsized business solutions on the market today, integrates easily and cost-efficiently with Tivoli Storage Manager Enterprise Edition so your storage software investment is protected.