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posted on 01 August 2008 11:06

Three months after acquiring Israeli startup FilesX IBM has quietly made FastBack Center available as a product for SMEs and remote offices to continuously protect their Windows servers and restore them to any point in time on the same, different or virtual machines.

FastBack Center is part of the Tivoli Storage Management product set and gives IBM a product to offer the same highly granular protection and recovery that is offered by replication vendors Double-Take and NeverFail.

It is aware of Exchange and can restore a mail infrastructure on a server properly through its FastBack for Microsoft Exchange component, from individual messages to a full e-mail database. The FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery element provides recovery from a crashed server back to the repaired server, a different machine or to a virtual machine. It can also be used to migrate a server app environment to a new system.

The product is claimed to get users back up and running in minutes after a server crash with full recovery taking place in the background and completing in an hour.

Because it is integrated with Tivoli, IBM says remote office data protection can be integrated into data center protection and archiving.

FactBack Center is said to complement Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files which is targeted at desktop and notebook users. IBM may well extend platform support for FastBack Center to various flavours of Linux and Unix servers.

^{[Martin Edwards, news writer.]}