IBM Spectrum Protect Extended Edition - Software Subscription and Support Renewal (1 year) - 10 processor value units

IBM data protection solutions, featuring IBM Spectrum Protect, enable advanced data backup and data recovery for virtual, physical, cloud and software defined environments - as well as core applications and remote facilities. IBM Spectrum Protect solutions enable software defined storage environments, by delivering file, block and object data protection for IBM Spectrum Storage and other SDS environments; enable cloud data protection with OpenStack and REST support, cloud portal for multi-tenancy, IBM SoftLayer integration and hybrid cloud optimization; integrate with VMware and Hyper-V for efficient virtual machine data protection that includes hardware-assisted snapshots, copy management, incremental 'forever' backups and new self-service restore portal, initially for VMware; mitigate the risk of data loss with frequent snapshots, multi-site replication and disaster recovery management and reduce the total cost of data protection.