Front-safe Plus IBM High IOPS Adapters Equals an Efficient and High-performance Cloud Solution for Tivoli Storage Manager

Posted: 12/13/2011

Front-safe, a dedicated supplier of backup and archiving solutions, offers a “Ready for Tivoli” validated TSM Portal that enables datacenters to take the advanced IBM Tivoli Storage Manager data protection solution to the next level. This portal is a cloud solution that makes TSM easily available to large and small businesses.

Delivering its best-in-class service to businesses became challenging as Front-safe’s customer base and data volume grew beyond what its disk-based system could handle. Front-safe needed to reduce time spent on database maintenance tasks, improve the utilization of server resources, and consolidate IBM Tivoli Storage Manager servers.

Fusion-io delivered on all fronts. It reduced query times from hours to minutes, so its DBAs could focus on more important work than tuning. The High IOPS Adapters even sped the upgrade from an expected one to three days down to just five hours.

“The savings were enormous,” Senior Systems Engineer Geirr G. Halvorsen told us. “We are now able to fully utilize the processors in our TSM servers. This allows us to cut our server footprint by two-thirds. At the same time, we’ve increased the speed of database backups and tasks like inventory expiration jobs, which makes our servers more responsive. Our customers have noticed the difference.”

On top of everything, Front-safe improved the workload capability of each server to cut its footprint by two-thirds.

Want to learn more about Front-safe’s Fusion Powered system? Read the case study here.

You can also check out the press release here.