Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Pros and Cons

Tivoli Storage Manager is a software that stores and backups and protects data from getting leaked. The software is profilerated by IBM. There are many reasons to use Tivoli Storage Manager and integrate it in your business processes. The software can be used by small and large businesses.

1. Tivoli Storage manager backups the data and protects data from getting leaked in any environment.

2. It has a feature where it eliminates duplicated data this feature helps to save storage.

3. It can be integrated with various applications and softwares.

4. To protect data from getting leaked, Tivoli Storage Manager has encryption policies which acts as shield from data getting leaked when it is transmitted.

5. Tivoli storage manager offers customer support, it offers technical assistance by phone, email and forums. It also offers them training to learn and get equipped with TSM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Setting up Tivoli storage manager can be difficult and require expertise. The maintaince cost of Tivoli storage manager can be quite high and small sized businesses can find it hefty. In the intial phases, it can be quite difficult to integrate the system with existing IT and it also requires intense effort and customization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It provide centralized management for backup and recovery operations across different kind of environment. It provide high end security while transferring data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It setting up and configuration process is to complex and hard to understand for new user as like me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rock solid backups for a wide range of systems such as databases, applications. It also handles massive datasets and complex environments with advanced options like deduplication,encryption, and disaster recovery. Best thing is set it and forget it with customized storage tierings and retention policies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Comparing to new age solutions command line heavy for advanced tasks. Web interface still lags in some areas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It major provide comprehensive solution for data protection, also offers backup, achieve and disaster recovery capabilities in a single platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is to complex to setup and configure, especially for large IT companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tivoli Storage manager is the best solution to secure your data as Centralized and in automated manner. the best feature of TSM is that it connects easliy to Server, SAN and NAS and reduce the risk to data to be loss. it used to be in high demand before 10 years ago. Offered this to lots of Happy customer. it is easy to use. it also give best archive policy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Need to work on pricing as there are cheaper solution are also available in market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the best thing about this tool what I like is incremental data/file backup.

Best suits for Servers especially in Virtual machines/infrastructure. Data recovery with perfection wrt data/time/seconds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Faced few regular backup failure due to VSS and RC12 errors.

Sometime due to writer/tape issues occurred.

Apart from these one of the best in this category.

Needs to improve the VSS issue in Windows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Flexible retention policy and backup on file level is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Expensive, less costly options available in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tivoli Storage Manager integrates with VMWare and provides file-level or image recovery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have like all the options that TSM provides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I appreciated most is the policy-based management of file storage and backups, with automatic data migration between storage tiers. It's a good way to save resources and therefore storage costs. I also really appreciated the deduplication functionality of source and destination data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The thing I appreciated least is the complexity of configuring the system. It is extremely granular and scalable, with customizable configurations possible to the extreme, but it requires solid knowledge of the product in order to be configured correctly and efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ho apprezzato molto il fatto di poter personalizzare e programmare interamente ogni singolo task di backup e ogni singola porzione dell'infrastruttura Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

E' un prodotto molto costoso e richiede un livello di conoscenza che si può avere avere solo se si possiedono certificazioni IBM; serve necessariamente il support di un consulente. E' un prodotto molto difficile da configurare e gestire. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.