IBM

The International Business Machines Corporation is an American multinational

technology and consulting corporation, with headquarters in Armonk, New York,
United States. IBM manufactures and markets computer hardware and software,
and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging
from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.

Products
1.IBM SmartCloud Storage Access
IBM offers IBM SmartCloud Storage Access, an easy-to-deploy, simple-to-use
software solution that features a self-service portal for storage provisioning,
monitoring and reporting. It is designed to provide users with a self-service fileserving facility over the Internet. With a few clicks, users can create an account,
provision storage and start uploading files.

Features
Feature

Benefits

Self-service storage
provisioning

Enables users to provision storage through a

nontechnical, easy-to-use web-based portal
Automated provisioning process provides
consistent and higher service quality
Enables cloud and department/customer
administrators to use the portal to manage either the
entire storage cloud or a region of the storage cloud
Provides strict, role-based access control for
security
Enable authorized technical users (such as
application owners and database administrators) to
quickly provision logical unit numbers (LUNs) for their
storage needs, such as for testing a new application
or expanding the SAN capacity for a database
application, without administrator involvement

Web-based access
Monitoring, reporting and
chargeback services

Enables access from any location at any time

Enables simple reporting per resource pool or
department
Enables cloud administrators to monitor

Feature

Benefits

capacity usage automatically by setting capacitywarning thresholds and by enabling automatic

system notifications when the threshold is reached
Enables reporting charts that provide history
usage information: cloud and department
administrators can clearly see the data used in the
past, which facilitates planning and rebalancing the
storage cloud as needed
Offers storage usage metric reporting that can
be easily used within metering and accounting
software for chargeback services
Enables end users to view their own datausage histories
Service catalog

Allows administrators to define storage classes

and make them available to departments where
users can then request storage on any storage class
available to that department
Enables storage classes to be defined with
different service profiles with the flexibility to
customize and define service levels based on
performance, capacity isolation or disaster-recovery
policy; profiles can be either predefined or
custom

Capacity elasticity

Makes additional capacity available either on

demand or via administrator approval, depending on
the setup
Allows cloud administrators to process
automatic approvals when needed

Approval process support

Automates the request process from end user

to department administrator or cloud administrator
Allows cloud administrators to define the
approval policy for provisioning actions
Allows cloud administrators to delegate
approval to department administrators

Feature

Benefits

Authentication

Allows users to use the existing authentication

server (AD/LDAP) for file access
Federated authentication support enables
multiple authentication servers to be integrated,
allowing for collaboration with other institutions for
content storage and sharing

Cloud storage integration

application programming
interface ( API)

Enables third-party ISVs, developers and

service providers to integrate IBM SmartCloud
Storage Access capabilities directly into their own
applications using Representational State Transfer
(REST) API

2.IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for

z/OS
IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS offers vital data protection while
helping to increase data availability. With effective auditing tools, secure recovery,
and improved day-to-day management, you can access your data, even in the event
of problems in the IT environment ranging from simple human errors to natural
disasters.

Features
IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS assures the entire ICF catalog
environment is protected to minimize outages and reduce recovery time. Its backup
and recovery capabilities and high availability features help to maintain integrity
and optimize business resiliency.

Infrastructure benefits

Backup and restore facilities that provide high integrity and fast processing.

A forward recovery facility for BCS and VVDS catalog structures that use SMF
data, merged with backup records, to update the BCS and VVDS from the time of
the backup to the current time.

A full-function backup and restore facility for VSAM files that allows attribute
changes during recovery and can back up damaged KSDS data sets.

An expanded diagnostic facility that enables frequent health checks of the

BCS, VVDS, VTOC, and tape management catalog structures. This facility contains
an audit-check and 'fix' capability to resynchronize entries that are in error.

A fast and safe "MERGECAT" facility that enables moving or copying of

individual BCS entries, alias groups of BCS entries, or entire catalogs.

A fast and safe split/merge facility that enables moving or copying of

individual BCS entries, alias groups of BCS entries, or entire catalogs.

The "Reorg While Open" and "Repair While Open" features reorganize and
repair ICF catalogs while applications are still active. These high availability features
can save hours of application downtime over traditional tools.

The feature to allow reorganization and repair of, and attribute changes for
ICF catalogs while applications are still active. These high availability features can
save hours of application downtime over traditional tools.

Application benefits

A diagnostic set of commands that provides a safe and easy-to-use

AMASPZAP-like facility to delete, print, and update BCS, VVDS, VTOC and VSAM data
set structures.

A powerful facility that allows users to change the VOLSER of online DASD
volumes in a single command, without requiring the user to unload and reload all
data on the volume.

A set of commands that provide several BCS/VVDS facilities which include

VOLSER changes to BCS records and BCS back pointer correction in the VVDS.

Search and reporting functions that provide a powerful, high-performance

search facility with extensive dataset naming and file attribute filters to identify
datasets of interest.

A simulation feature on most commands that enable users to check critical

catalog changes in advance in order to determine the effect of the command before
it is run.

A journaling facility for certain critical commands which can enable a 'restart'
or 'backout' option in the event of a failure or interruption during the execution of
the command.

3.IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery

IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS is an all-in-one solution for
backup and recovery of application data on z/OS. It identifies critical application

data, delivers reliable and accurate data backup, facilitates fast recovery of critical
data, identifies critical data that has not been backed up, monitors backups, and
features compliance and diagnostic reporting capabilities.

Features

It can help trim costs related to remote DASD replication by identifying critical
data for replication through its Automated Critical Data Identification component.

It offers the ability to consolidate and perform backups through its Aggregate
Backup and Recovery Support (ABARS) Manager component.

It can track backups, including IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for
z/OS backups, with its Critical Backup Tracking/Inventory component.

Infrastructure and Application Benefits:

Streamlines the backup process
The ABARS Manager component of Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS
helps streamline the process of backing up data from disk, tape and DFSMShsm
migration by employing a single interface for data movement as well as automated
features that provide a backup and recovery scheme for crucial application data.
The ABARS Manager includes powerful extensions to the ABARS DFSMShsm
function. For instance, it enables users to coordinate application backups for local
and off-site recovery and to recover applications in order of importance at the
recovery site. ABARS Manager performs full application backups from tape, disk,
and DFSMShsm-migrated data sets that organizations must be able to recover.
Because it eliminates backups of data that has not changed, backup windows are
significantly minimized, resulting in cost savings. In accordance with regulations
such as Sarbanes-Oxley, ABARS Manager automates backups of data that has
changed. It also reduces or eliminates the need for full-volume dumps, DFSMShsm
automatic back-ups, and backups performed during batch processing.

Tracks backups to meet audit requirements

The Critical Backup Tracking/Inventory component of Tivoli Advanced Backup and
Recovery for z/OS tracks and inventories backups performed in a z/OS environment
without requiring JCL changes. These backups include ABARS Manager and IBM
Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS backups.

Leverages Tivoli Enterprise Portal for integration of real-time and

historical data
Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS is seamlessly integrated with Tivoli
Monitoring infrastructure components, providing Tivoli Enterprise Portal with
important business performance metrics. This integration augments understanding
and coordination of new work spaces and other systems monitored by Tivoli
Monitoring. A single graphical user interface for many Tivoli monitoring and
management products is provided through Tivoli Enterprise Portal.

Deploys a unified solution for IBM System zStorage management

The Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS offering is part of the IBM
System zStorage management portfolio and the IBM Tivoli Service Management
Center for System z. The Tivoli Service Management Center is an IBM Service
Management methodology and product suite that helps increase availability of
business / critical IT services.

Reasons for choosing these products

Cloud and service management provides visibility, control and automation across
the enterprise. It is designed to reduce costs and decrease risk, and is targeted at
providing monitoring and performance management for new technologies like
Mobile, Big Data and Cloud on zEnterprise. Cloud and service management includes
monitoring, system and workload automation, and storage and network
management.

Reasons for those products development

Todays storage management needs go beyond traditional backup and recovery
solutions. Now, the IBM Storage solution has been bolstered by the integration of
IBM virtualization software and Tivoli Storage Management software into the IBM
Storage software family. The result is endtoend storage hardware and software
products that help you to optimize your heterogeneous environment impacting the
overall infrastructure as well as individual missioncritical applications.