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Executive Summary
This paper outlines the ease of use and deployment of Riverbed
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Whitewater
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cloud storage gateway with IBM Tivoli Storage
Manager (TSM). Whitewater gateways provides a simple, efficient way to offsite data to cloud storage providers powered by
Amazon
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S3, AT&T
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Synaptic Storage as a Service, HP
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Cloud Services, Microsoft
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Windows
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Azure cloud storage, Nirvanix
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Cloud Storage Network, Rackspace
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Cloud Files, and general instances of EMC
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Atmos and OpenStack™ (Swift) Object
Storage. Whitewater gateways simply acts as a storage unit within a backup infrastructure managed by IBM Tivoli Storage
Manager, enabling organizations to eliminate their reliance on tape infrastructure and all of its associated capital and operational
costs, while improving backup windows and disaster recovery capabilities.
It is simple to set up the Whitewater gateway and start moving data to the cloud in a few hours, compared to setting up tape or
other disk replication infrastructures which can take days. Leveraging Riverbed’s industry leading deduplication, compression and
WAN optimization technologies, Whitewater gateways shrink data set sizes by 10 to 30x substantially reducing cloud storage
costs, accelerating data transfers and storing more data within the local cache, speeding recovery.
Security is provided by encrypting data on-site, in-flight, as well as in the cloud using 256-bit AES encryption and SSL v3.
Whitewater gateway provides a dual layer of encryption that ensures that any data moved into the cloud is not compromised, and
it creates a complete end-to-end security solution for cloud storage.
Since a Whitewater appliance is an asymmetric, stateless gateway, no hardware is needed in the cloud and you can recover the
last known good state of a broken or destroyed Whitewater gateway to a new Whitewater gateway. Whitewater gateways provide
flexibility to scale cloud storage as the business requirements change. All capital expenditure planning required with tape and disk
replication based solutions is avoided, saving organizations 30-50%.
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture Overview
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager software provides a wide range of storage management capabilities from a single point of control,
helping companies ride the information tidal wave. With its client/server design, Tivoli Storage Manager helps simplify the
protection and management of your data, addresses business continuity by helping to shorten backup and recovery times and
helps to maximize application availability with advanced data recovery management technologies.
In IBM Tivoli Storage Manager all aspects of operations from backups to server management are conducted via the IBM Tivoli
Storage Manager Administration Console. Administrators can run the Administration Console from any server in the network. See
Diagram 1 for an image of a typical Tivoli Storage Manager deployment.
