IBM Tivoli Storage Manager - Subproducts

Subproducts

The naming convention is to prefix every product name with "IBM Tivoli Storage Manager":

• Client aka Backup/Archive Client for most major operating systems at supported versions
• Server for most major server operating systems
• for Advanced Copy Services (Formerly ITSM for Hardware)- Hardware based snapshots for major database backups. Although it still exists as a product today the newer releases are re-branded as FCM (FlashCopy Manager)
• for Copy Services - Windows snapshots for Exchange and MSSQL.
• for Databases - An API for Oracle RMAN and a GUI & CLI tool for MSSQL backups.
• for Data retention - A zOS client to manage long-term archiving of data.
• for Enterprise Resource Planning - - Allows online backup of SAP R/3 stored in Oracle or DB2. Formerly backint developed by IBM Germany in Entwicklung by the Enterprise Service Division (ESD) as a "Support Offering" to back up SAP R/3 directly into TSM. This product was acquired by Tivoli as Tivoli Data Protection for R/3.
• for Mail - These are external applications that tie into the API for Lotus Domino (aka Notes) and Microsoft Exchange for online backups.
• for SharePoint - This is a repackaged copy of DocAve, still marketed by OEM AvePoint
• for Space Management - (HSM) for Linux and AIX. The Linux/Unix product uses the "MIGDESTINATION" hierarchy within TSM and has objects managed as "SPACEMG" types.
• for HSM for Windows - (HSM) for Windows. The Windows product is OpenStore for File Servers produced by INTERCOPE GmbH.
• for Storage Area Networks (SAN) - aka "LAN Free Storage Agent" This is a modified version of the TSM Server itself, offering no local TSM Database. Configuration is purely for server-to-server library sharing. This allows the agent to write to tapes managed by the primary TSM server without having to pass data over the network.
• for System Backup and Recovery - This is a standalone product for AIX bare metal recovery. The original name was Sysback/6000, produced by Tony Johnson in the 1990s and sold by IBM as a service offering through IBM Global Services. Sysback can back up and restore files, filesystems, volume groups, and entire systems to local or remote disk, local or remote tape, NIM servers, and TSM. Current versions can also recover systems via the files backed up using the TSM B/A client. There is a major branch of this product. When Tony Johnson left IBM in 1998, he started a company and product named Storix. Storix is feature rich and supports AIX and Linux, has a GUI management interface, and is very similar in origins to Sysback. Storix actively competes with IBM's Sysback due differing price structures and features.