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IBM Bulks Up Data Protection: Page 2 of 4

The vendor is aiming TSM FastBack at two main target markets: remote offices and mid-market companies where TSM is typically not deployed.

”It’s an enterprise-class product [but] FilesX will push it more into the mid-market,” explains Vining.

At least one analyst thinks that this could indeed open the door to remote office CDP.

”FilesX has been used by small-to-medium sized companies, primarily, and some of their larger customers use them for remote office backups,” says Noemi Greyzdorf, research manager at IDC. “So this could now be an integrated component of TSM."

IBM is putting TSM FastBack up against Symantec’s Backup Exec and Microsoft’s Data Protection Manager (DPM), although there are some big differences between the offerings.