Operations Center updates

New features are available in IBM Spectrum Protect™ Operations Center Version 8.1.3. By using the updated Operations Center, you can schedule automatic updates of IBM Spectrum Protect backup-archive client software and automatically move data from disk storage to cloud storage for long-term data retention.

The following enhancements were made to the Operations Center:

You can create schedules to update one or more backup-archive clients. As new update packages are released, they are automatically downloaded. When an update schedule runs, installation files are copied to the client system and the client is updated to the specified software version. You can also use the Operations Center to monitor, cancel, or reschedule updates.
You can create storage rules to automatically move data from directory-container storage pools to cloud-container storage pools based on the age of the data. The different types, or tiers, of storage offer different price and performance tradeoffs. You can archive older data in lower performance storage in the cloud, and retain recent data backups on high-performance disk for faster restore operations.

For more information about these enhancements, see the Operations Center help.