It wasn’t long ago that IBM posted a blog that discussed accelerating your hybrid cloud journey with IBM PowerVS. Since that time, many organizations have made the transition to IBM Power Virtual Servers (IBM PowerVS). A part of that journey for many has included discovering the use of virtual tape libraries (VTL) in helping with the process.
IBM and FalconStor announced their strategic relationship in May 2022 to jointly provide validated solutions to help IBM Power customers leveraging their existing data protection infrastructure. The solutions span from optimizing on-premises backups, cloud native backups, hybrid cloud backups, migration to the cloud and cloud disaster recovery solutions.
FalconStor recently announced their new version of StorSafe VTL software with new features that continue to help IBM PowerVS and IBM Power on-premises customers to optimize protecting their data, whether the data is on-premises, hybrid cloud or multicloud environments. Here are some answers to the most pressing questions about the new release of StorSafe VTL.
The new release of FalconStor StorSafe VTL not only includes support for Power10, but introduces FalconStor’s hybrid cloud management console, StorSight. StorSight provides centralized management across on-premises sites or virtual IBM Power environments. It provides a single-pane-of-glass view for organizations to efficiently manage all instances of StorSafe VTL and includes real-time visibility into backup status, health, integrity, historical trend through insights and reporting. The addition of secure multi-tenancy with role-based administration enables MSPs (Managed Service Providers) the ability to offer backup-as-a-service or organizations to deploy chargebacks easily.
Ransomware protection also continues to be top of mind for organizations worldwide today with data breaches often making top story news. Data security in general is every organization’s concern. So, the enhanced ransomware protection in StorSafe VTL provides organizations with the peace of mind knowing they can recover with immutable copies of data for both on-premises and leveraging IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS).
Multicloud support to extend secondary PowerVS support for disaster recovery
True multicloud support is also new with this new StorSafe VTL release. Support for IBM Power Virtual Server instances in IBM Cloud or other public or private cloud platforms enables simplified workload migration and enhanced protection with secondary PowerVS support for Disaster Recovery.
Hope this answers the pressing questions around the latest release of StorSafe VTL for those leveraging IBM Power and IBM PowerVS!