IBM extends its partnership with Predatar to help infrastructure teams do more with less.
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You may have seen the recent news that the IBM storage portfolio is undergoing a major shake-up. The objective – to better align IBM’s storage solutions with the real-world challenges that businesses are facing.
Today, as part of that shake-up, IBM has announced that Predatar Ultimate and Predatar Backup Analytics & Automation are now part of the IBM Storage Software portfolio. This means that all 3 Predatar subscription ‘flavours’ are now available via the IBM channel. You can read the official IBM announcement here.
The business challenge:
It won’t surprise you to hear that cyber-crime remains one of the biggest challenges for businesses today. Economic pressures and a global technical skills shortage are compounding the problem.
Few departments are feeling the strain like infrastructure teams. Backup and recovery is a cornerstone of resiliency for every business, but infrastructure teams have been fighting shrinking budgets and a widening skills gap for years.
The skilled resources they do have are often overstretched – struggling to stay on top of the day-to-day operational maintenance of the ever-expanding backup environments they manage – let alone taking proactive steps to tackle cyber risks and boost resiliency.
IBM & Predatar:
Many IBM Storage customers will already be familiar with Predatar. Our Cyber Recovery Orchestration (CRO) tools have been available from IBM and its resellers around the world since July 2022. Today’s announcement means that all of Predatar’s capabilities are now available from IBM.
Predatar Backup Analytics & Automation (which is also included in the Predatar Ultimate plan) has been created specifically to empower infrastructure teams to do more with less.
Here’s just a taster of the features Predatar Backup Analytics & Automation brings to the table…
1. Powerful backup monitoring and alerts
With Predatar, backup administrators no longer need to log into different GUIs and spend hours looking for problems. Every day Predatar runs an automated 104-point backup health-check and raises an alert if any problems are found.
Users can see all of the critical backup and recovery metrics in the intuitive Predatar Dashboard and can quickly customise their view with just a few clicks to see the information that matters most to them.
2. Operational runbooks
Predatar allows infrastructure teams to easily configure runbooks to automate and orchestrate their most repetitive, complex, or time-consuming tasks.
Predatar also includes multiple pre-configured runbooks that work right out of the box, to help tackle the most common ‘time-sucking’ tasks. A great example is automated backup reruns…
Did you know, on average, infrastructure teams in enterprise organisations spend 3.5 hours each day investigating and resolving failed backup runs?
Predatar will automatically re-run any failed backups. Where a backup run failure persists, Predatar collates the relevant logs and shares them with whoever needs to see them.
3. Flexible reporting
With Predatar, infrastructure teams can say goodbye to hand-cranked reports. Predatar makes it easy for backup administrators to configure reports to focus on the metrics that matter most to their business.
Reports for non-technical stakeholders can be easily generated, and automatically delivered to their inbox based on triggers or a pre-defined schedule.
4. Capacity insights and usage forecasting
On average, businesses use 20% more storage than is necessary due to ineffective capacity management, and 36% of data is stored on a sub-optimal class of storage technology.
Because Predatar stores unlimited backup history data, the platform can develop a deep understanding of backup activity trends and future needs. By using this data to inform capacity management and infrastructure planning, businesses can save between 10 and 25% on their total backup storage costs.
The conclusion:
Every enterprise organisation can benefit from bringing automation and insights to their backup and recovery processes. From reducing dependency on hard-to-find experts, to reducing costs, and boosting resiliency – the benefits are extensive.
Wherever you are on your journey to cyber resilient backup and recovery, there is a Predatar subscription for you. Learn more at Predatar.com or ask your IBM rep or IBM reseller for more information.
