IBM on Friday unveiled a new product that allows computer users to continuously back up their data, protecting it from crashes or virus attacks. The software, which goes by the long-winded title IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection For Files, will be available on September 16 and sell for $35 per laptop or desktop and $995 per server processor.
The software, which targets a growing segment of the $2.6 billion backup and archive software market, tracks real-time changes of a computer's data and saves records of these changes locally as well as on remote servers, offering more protection than traditional once-a-day backups.
"This is really a whole new world," said Ron Riffe, IBM's director of storage software strategy.
IBM said it will sell the software on a stand-alone basis to smaller companies and as an add-on to customers of its well-entrenched Tivoli Storage Manager product, which backs up and recovers data for corporate systems. The core market is the growing legion of remote workers. Riffe said IBM is also in talks with internet service providers and others about bringing the technology to consumers.
Continuous backup technology, however, isn't entirely unique. Rivals such as Symantec Corp and a number of startups, have similar products on the market, said Anne MacFarland, an analyst with technology consultant The Clipper Group. But IBM says these rival products don't provide the same type of real-time protection of IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection For Files and aren't as easy to use.
"It's really simple, which is important to the target market," said Riffe.
This simplicity, IBM's vast market presence, as well as the low price will encourage adoption, Clipper Group's
This program seems cool... not to lose anything... BUT if you bootleg or Privacy... for this to logged your shit... And your shit gets Raided or so... I don't know!!
And why the FUCK is the Laptop 35 bitches and PC is about 1000? That's Horseshit!
oh its $1000 for servers since businesses have computers running 24/7 with critical data and stuff....i think wat they need is a remote RAM type system on computers where data is backup but you cant use it as regular storage..only for backup and restore. somthign like PuRAM. also, Microsoft needs to learn to not run windows as admin, they need to make it like unix where you need root password if u want to isntall stuff on a computer adn this way you will less problems. they are goin go implement this feature in Windows Vista but its kinda late when apple and most linux operating system have been doing that for years..micrsoft developers are sleepign or i guess htey are more focused on counting money. Now we all know Mac OS can run on pentium processors and they are slowly going to start selling Pentium based computers. Microsoft needs to start thinking cuz apple is catchign up like crazy
08-30-2005, 01:18 AM
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