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StorageTek EXPANDS BACKUP/RECOVERY OPTIONS

StorageTek and IBM are offering customers another weapon in the battle to manage backup and recovery.

In an effort to bring customers a wider choice of backup and recovery software, StorageTek (Storage Technology Corp), a storage services and solutions expert, is offering IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager, IBM Tivoli Software's flagship data protection storage management software.

"Including IBM's Tivoli storage software with our offerings reaffirms our commitment to broadening our ability to respond to the backup and recovery needs of our customers," said Angel Garcia, StorageTek corporate vice president of Global Services and International Operations. "Our customers can now get one of the most compelling storage management solutions on the market today, directly from StorageTek. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager helps automate data protection and recovery based on business priorities and data retention policies, making for a strong combination with our storage products."

The global alliance between IBM and StorageTek enhances StorageTek's Information Lifecycle Management solutions for both mainframe and open systems environments.

"The critical nature of backup and recovery makes optimizing storage management in heterogeneous storage environments more important than ever," said Laura Sanders, vice president of IBM Tivoli Storage Software. "Combined with the range of StorageTek tape drives, tape libraries and disk products, customers using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager benefit from an integrated solution that helps increase the availability of critical storage resources and improves resource utilization."

The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager solution provides extensive protection for more than 35 platforms of workstations and LAN file servers, spanning from mainframes to laptops. This storage management solution enables users to restore on-line data from an off-line data copy in the case of hardware failure, disasters or human error. Using a centralized control model with automatic scheduled data backup and archive capabilities, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager scales to handle many of the largest and most distributed networked organizations in the world. Optimized to reduce data transfer sizes for fast backups and restores, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager can use SANs, LANs, internet or dial-up connections to backup and archive data from computers running any of seventeen different operating systems.

StorageTek has performed compatibility testing with IBM Tivoli Software, a leading ISV, for many years. IBM Tivoli Certified StorageTek products include D-Series disk system, the new ATA mezzanine B-Series disk system, Application Storage Manager, all StorageTek mainframe and open systems tape libraries and tape drives, the StorageTek StorageNet 6000, Virtual Storage Manager, and V2X Shared Virtual Array.