Last week IBM announced a new set of products under the Tivoli brand to tackle the problems in backing up large amounts of corporate data.
Traditional back-up of vital information has so far happened nightly in data centres. This seems no longer sufficient for many companies, so IBM has come up with Continuous Data Protection, or CDP, proving that there is no end in sight to IT three letter acronyms. With CDP, the software can be set to save data every few seconds or whenever something is written.
If a computer virus or natural disaster strikes, a file's state can be rapidly "rewound" to the point just before the problem occurred. Hey, I could do with a bit of this, or maybe Google could, as I just lost my previous post re Sony for no good reason. If only!
IBM has apparently been keen to steal a march on their competition by announcing their CDP solution first and pricing aggressively at $35 to protect a desktop. Mind you, the fact that Microsoft and Symantec are apparently only announcing KCDP, i.e. 'Kinda CDP', because it is not really continuous, just every few hours, means IBM may not need to steal quite such a march. Their product sounds better. Either that or all these acronyms have just confused the hell out of all of us.
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