
Designed to manage the most demanding and complex data environments
The STORServer Converged Data Protection Appliance is a first-of-its-kind appliance that can be configured with both IBM Storage Protect and IBM Storage Protect Plus data protection to offer the widest breadth of features and benefits available.
Powered by one or both IBM Storage® Protect and IBM Storage® Protect Plus, the STORServer Converged Data Protection Appliance offers the widest range of benefits and features of any STORServer appliance.
Depending on your data protection requirements, these appliance platforms can be configured with several different software options:
- IBM Storage Protect only
- IBM Storage Protect Plus only
- IBM Storage Protect and Storage Protect Plus running as virtual machines on the same platform
- An IBM Storage Protect vSnap storage server for large environments requiring >500 TB of backup storage
The exact features and benefits of your STORServer Converged Data Protection Appliance are dependent on your software and hardware configuration.

Supported Use Cases
Backup and Recovery
Protect important business data from loss
Disaster Recovery and Replication
Eliminate loss risks from localized disasters
Long-term retention and archival
Meet and exceed data retention regulations
Development and Test
Maximize benefits with easy data reuse
Compliance and Privacy
Air-gapped protection, vulnerability management
Scale-Out Storage
Consolidate workloads and simplify management
Supported Workloads
Virtual
VMware \ Hyper-V \ Kubernetes \ Cloud \ IBM \ AWS \ Azure
Physical
Windows \ Linux \ UNIX \ NAS \ Acropolis (AHV) \ AIX \ OpenVMS \ Netware \ Spectrum Scale
Databases
SQL \ Oracle Database \ Oracle Rdb \ Mongo \ DB2 \ Distributed Databases \ SAP HANA
Applications
Oracle \ Microsoft O365 \ SAP \ Exchange \ Epic
STORServer Appliance Advantage
Features
- Complete solution for data backup, restore, and archive
- Manage the most complex data environments
- Support a wide spectrum of workloads and use cases
- Top manufacturer hardware and software components
- Built reliable, scalable, and simple to manage
- Pre-assembled, configured, and tested
- Fully deployed and protecting data in 2-3 days
- Total solution support for all components of the system
Benefits
- Reduced Overhead: fast deployment, automation, one-call support
- Meets RTO and RPO: data availability, instant restores, custom policies
- Reliable Disaster Recovery: DR plan, cloud options, air-gap malware protection
- Meets Regulatory and Compliance Requirements: policy-based retention, easy search and restore, encryption

Simplified data recovery and reuse for Virtual Machines, databases, applications, and containers.

Scalable data protection for physical file servers, applications and virtual environments.