One Platform.
Enterprise Workloads.
Zero Compromise.
Compass® protects IBM i, Power VS, AIX, Linux on Power, Windows, x86, VMware, SAP HANA, Oracle, and every major cloud — from a single console, under a single license. Zero Access® architecture leaves no login to the backup infrastructure to attack. And it includes the most flexible IBM-approved virtual tape library.
One product. Built for the way you run.
Compass is a single enterprise backup platform. Start with the path that matches your environment.
Protect Power workloads — on-premises or in IBM Cloud
AIX, Linux on Power, and IBM i under one policy engine. Deploy on Power Virtual Server from the IBM Cloud Catalog in under 15 minutes.
Explore the Power path →Replace tape and legacy VTLs — keep BRMS
Compass Tape Gateway™ is the most flexible IBM-approved VTL, built into the platform. No BRMS command changes. No separate VTL appliance to buy.
Explore the IBM i Path →Consolidate x86, VMware, and multi-cloud backup
Replace your stack of backup tools with one SaaS platform covering x86, VMware, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and more.
Explore the cloud path →Protect NAS shares and unstructured data
Back up file shares and NAS volumes alongside every other workload — one policy engine, one console, no separate tool.
Explore the NAS path →Application-consistent backup for critical databases
SAP HANA, Oracle, Db2, and Epic protected with application-aware, consistent recovery points you can trust.
Explore the application path →Multi-tenant backup as a service
One multi-tenant platform for every client and workload — centralized policy and margin-friendly post-dedup pricing.
Explore the MSP path →Five problems. One answer.
Too many tools, too much cost
Replace 3–5 backup products with one platform, one console, one all-inclusive license priced on post-dedup data.
Legacy tape and aging VTLs
Compass Tape Gateway™ replaces physical tape and legacy VTL appliances at network speed — with zero changes to BRMS.
VTL replacement →Ransomware targets backups first
Cyber Shield™ delivers analytics-driven anomaly detection, immutable WORM storage, and isolated Compass Vaults. Zero Access® means there is no login to your backup environment to steal.
Ransomware defense →Recovery is slow and unproven
Automated, validated recovery with a second-site DR copy available.
Recovery readiness →Compliance and sovereignty
Automated compliance reporting, full audit history, data sovereignty controls, and global policy management — built in.
Compliance & audit →The most flexible IBM-approved VTL.
Compass Tape Gateway™ is not a standalone VTL product — it is an included feature of the Compass platform. Your IBM i keeps backing up through BRMS exactly as it does today, but the data lands on disk instead of tape — so backups and restores run at network speed. Replicate off-site automatically, and retire your tape hardware and VTL appliance contracts.
- Fully BRMS-compatible, including Robot Save, SAV, and others.
- First SaaS-based VTL for IBM i, in the IBM Cloud catalog and on-premises.
- Included at no additional cost with Compass
- On-premises or in the IBM Power Virtual Server globally.
- Migrate physical or virtual tape to Compass Tape Gateway with Compass Tape Migrator
Trusted under the most demanding conditions on earth
Including IBM's own Office of the CIO.
"Compass replaced a fragmented backup environment with one platform we no longer have to think about." Read the IBM Office of the CIO story
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