Compass is a new approach to data protection, harnessing analytics and automation to drive out cost and complexity while delivering reliable protection and valuable data insights to the business.
Deep Cyber Security. Unparalled Response.
Built-in Security
- 24/7 software-enabled problem detection
- Proactive problem avoidance
- Containment and immutability
- Elimination of common attack vectors
- Data governance – all transactions auditable
- Ransomware readiness, response, and recovery
Automation
- Automated license and compliance management
- Delivered as Software-as-a-Service
- Simple migration from Storage Protect to Compass
- Automated reports
- Automated alerts
- Managed software currency
Operational Simplicity
- Automatic updates
- Software managed backup infrastructure
- Multi-tenant architecture
- RESTful API integration
- Single dashboard to manage entire backup landscape
Savings
- Leverage existing Storage Protect licenses
- Up to 50% CapEx / OpEx savings from license management and hardware optimization
- Up to 80% reduction of management operations
- Only pay for what you need with easy growth model
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Capabilities
- Integration with IBM Backup Investments: Compass integrates directly with Storage Protect and FlashSystems to enhance and extend IBM’s data protection technologies.
- Enhanced Analytics: Offers detailed analytics not available in IBM Storage Protect or other data protection solutions, monitoring granular changes in backup data and preventing insider threats and ransomware attacks.
- Containment by Design: Creates a sealed barrier around your backup infrastructure, eliminating the need for direct access and blocking intrusion.
- Native Cloud Snapshots: Supports digital transformation and migration to the cloud.
- Faster Backup Processing: Designed for complex global enterprises with the capacity to handle petabytes of data, starting where others stop.
- SaaS Management Console: Integrates diverse backup silos into a unified environment with comprehensive dashboards, unified views, and audit-ready reports.
- Backup Cyber Resiliency: Features a unique, patented approach to ransomware protection, ensuring readiness for recovery and proactive defense against cyber-attacks.
- Automated Deployment: Automates installation and upgrades, eliminating the need for extensive professional services.
- Automated Storage Protect Tasks: Automates hundreds of Storage Protect tasks and analyzes rich metadata to self-optimize and prevent backup failures.
- Automated Updates and Patches: Ensures you always have the latest version of IBM Storage Protect, eliminating the need for detailed audits and annual maintenance fees.
- Instant Access to Healthy Backups: Ensures backups are instantly accessible for disaster recovery, with validated recovery points enabling rapid business resumption and eliminating the risk of reinfection.
- Zero Access®: Compass architecture implements eliminating all logins to the backup environment ensuring the security of your critical data.
“With this new enterprise backup solution, the CIO organization delivered a unified user experience by having a single-entry point for all application owners to configure and maintain the IBM backup infrastructure. About 400 application owners can now leverage a single portal to configure, schedule, create and restore backups. The Cobalt Iron portal simplifies the backup and restore processes for applications owners to protect petabytes of critical production application data.”
— IBM Chief Information Officer (CIO) Organization
