
Simplify Data Resilience Across your Storage Estate
IBM® Storage Defender is a software solution that keeps your data safe and your workloads available, with extensive data resilience and compliance capabilities, AI-enabled early threat detection, and safe and fast recovery.

Data resilience and compliance
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Always know the location and status of your backups and copies, and most importantly the clean and validated ones that are available for recovery.
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Use robust security features to secure your data and help address data compliance requirements.
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Gain scalability and flexibility to integrate with existing storage infrastructure and multi-cloud deployments.

Early threat detection
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Use advanced AI and ML algorithms to identify data anomalies faster, including zero-day vulnerabilities and other sophisticated attacks.
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Rapidly engage your security operations team when anomalies are detected with integration to popular SIEM tools like QRadar and Splunk.
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Synchronize hardware and software detection to detect attacks that might evade a single layer of protection.

Safe and fast recovery
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Leverage validated immutable backups, hardware snapshots, and copies with orchestrated recovery that connects your storage and security teams.
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Enable support for a clean room to conduct forensic investigations following an attack before data is restored to production.
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Restore your minimally viable company with an architecture that enables parallel operation across nodes to accelerate recovery.
APIS IT safeguards Croatia's critical government data
IBM Storage Defender integrates layered threat detection and recovery across primary and secondary workloads. With this solution, APIS IT gains visilibity into the location and status of clean, validated backups, enabling safe and rapid restoration through trusted copy identification, pre-recovery scanning, and clean room orchestration for backup testing before recovery.
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50% faster virtual machine backup performance*
62% improvement in exchange database backup performance*
(*compared to Storage Protect Plus)
