Whether in the enterprise or small-to-medium sized firms, VMware IT administrators and storage management teams face an increasingly complex set of decisions when it comes to deploying, managing, protecting and supporting storage infrastructure. Hear about the emerging issues in the most rapidly changing part of the IT environment, virtual machine (VM) management and availability. Learn about IBM’s perspective on data availability and how it is addressing future challenges you may not even be thinking about today with the new, highly flexible IBM Spectrum Protect Plus VM backup and availability management solution.

1. Addressing VMware Data Backup
and Availability Challenges with
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
Devon Helms
Product Marketing Manager
IBM Spectrum Storage Software

2. Current Challenges With Virtual Environment Protection
32% say backup and recover for virtual environments is a key spending area
-- Why—
According to Backup, Storage, and VM administrators
• Reliable recovery
• Reduced backup and recovery time
• Reduced secondary copies
According to IT leaders
• Increased speed/agility of recovery
• Increased reliability of recovery
• Increased granularity of recovery
*According to the Enterprise Strategy Group 2017 Data Center Modernization Spending Priorities

3. Backup Strategy for Virtual and Physical Servers
We use a unified solution
today – and plan to continue
that way, 36%
We use a unified solution
today – but anticipate using
a separate solution for our
virtual environments moving
forward, 14%We use a unified solution
today – but are open to
considering staying unified or
separating, based on the
best fit for us, 8%
We use separate solutions
today – but are open to
considering a unified or
separated strategy, based on
the best fit for us, 10%
We use separate solutions
today – but anticipate
moving to a unified solution
moving forward, 19%
We use separate solutions
today – and plan to continue
that way, 13%
What is your organization’s strategy for backing up its virtual and physical servers? What is your organization’s forward-looking strategy for
backing up its virtual and physical servers 24 months from now?
(Percent of respondents, N=400)

4. Introducing
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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What Is IBM Spectrum Protect Plus?
The next wave in data
protection and recovery
• Virtualization
focused
• Simple to deploy
• Easy to use
• Rapid time to value

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• Pick, click and done simplicity
• Select recovery service level and
apply to VMs
• SLAs pre-defined or create-your-own
• Unprotected VMs identified in
dashboard view
Policy Driven,
SLA-Based Automation
Service Levels

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• Block-level incremental forever backups
• Supports VMware® and Hyper-V™
• Converged backup app and data target
platform (use any storage)
• Immutable backup snapshots
Rapid, Low Impact Data Protection
Scalable
disk target
VMs
Block-level
data copy

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• Recover rapidly from snapshot copies
• Suitable for all recovery use cases
• Multiple recovery points for all VMs
• No waiting for streaming restores
Instant Data and VM Recovery
Ransomware Human Error
Hardware Failure Data Corruption
Data Loss Scenarios

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• Automated copy transfer to Spectrum
Protect
• Long-term archive tier
• Single-step recovery
• Meets legal and regulatory
compliance needs
Archive Tier Using Spectrum Protect
Disk Tape
Cloud Object Store
Tiering Options

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• Unified, Google-like search across
files and objects
• Locate files, VMs, datastores
• Easy restore from search
• Search across VMware® and
Hyper-V™ in a single operation
Global Search and Recover

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• More than just a backup
• Derive real business value from your
backup data
• Spin up VMs and VMDKs for easy,
secure data access from backup
copies
Multi-Use Backup Copies
Test/Dev Reporting
Analytics DevOps
Backup Data Use Cases

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• Easily assign functionality based on
user roles
• Reduces load on IT staff
• End-users prefer self-service models
• Safe and secure access
Role-Based Management,
User Self-Service
Backup Admin VM Admin
Developer Help Desk

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• At-a-glance status
• Drill-down data on:
 Protection status
 SLA compliance
 Storage utilization
Dashboard and Reporting

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IBM Spectrum Protect Leadership
Accelerates restoration times by 92% , reduces backup management
times up to 80% and lowers data protection CapEx and OpEx up to 75%
Implemented a single turn key backup solution for their entire VMware
environment with 2.5 TB/hour restore throughput
Improved backup efficiency with integrated space efficiency solutions
freeing up 75% of administrator’s time and reducing system
recovery times by 80 – 90%
IBM named a leader in Gartner’s 2017 Magic Quadrant for Data
Center Backup and Recovery Solutions

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The IBM Software-Defined Storage Portfolio
Flexible, scalable and simple hybrid cloud object storage with
geo-dispersed enterprise availability and security
IBM Spectrum CDM
High-performance, highly scalable hybrid cloud storage for
unstructured data
Enterprise block storage for hybrid cloud deployed in minutes
instead of months
Fast data retention that reduces TCO for active archive data by
up to 90%
Reduces CAPEX, OPEX and management of multi-vendor block
environments through storage virtualization - stores up to 5x more data
Optimized hybrid cloud data protection to reduce backup costs by
up to 53 percent
Analytics-driven hybrid cloud data management to reduce costs by
up to 73%
IBM Spectrum Scale
IBM Spectrum Accelerate
IBM Spectrum Archive
IBM Spectrum Virtualize
IBM Spectrum Protect
IBM Spectrum Control
Flash
Any
Storage
Cloud Services
Family of Storage Management
and Optimization Software
Private, Public
or Hybrid Cloud
Storage Rich
Servers
Secure Efficient Hybrid
Cloud
High-
Performance
Manage copies to increase business velocity and efficiency

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IBM Spectrum Scale
IBM Spectrum Accelerate
IBM Spectrum Archive
IBM Spectrum Virtualize
IBM Spectrum Protect
IBM Spectrum Control
IBM Spectrum Storage Suite
Unlimited access licensing model,
priced per-TB
Benefits:
• Up to 40% savings
• Simplified financial planning
• Increased agility
• Speed deployment
• Improved productivity
• Simplified support

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49 of the top 50 banks
14 of the top 15 telecommunications companies
18 of the top 20 energy companies
9 of the top 10 global healthcare companies
8 of the top 10 automobile manufacturers
IBM Spectrum Storage client adoption
87 of the Fortune Global 100
use IBM Spectrum Storage

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