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Cobalt Iron - Secure Automated Backup with Compass

Simple, secure, automated backup and restore to protect IBM PowerVS data powered by IBM Storage Protect.

  • Cobalt Iron
  • Third Party
  • Date of last update: 05/27/2025
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  • Cobalt Iron
  • 05/27/2025
  • Storage
  • IAM-enabled
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Disclaimer
This third-party product is provided by a vendor outside of IBM and is subject to a separate agreement between you and the third-party, if you accept their terms. IBM is not responsible for the product and makes no privacy, security, performance, support, or other commitments regarding the product.

Pricing plans

Prices shown are for country or location: United States
PlanFeatures and capabilitiesPricing
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  • Per gigabyte hour of stored protected data
  • Pricing is calculated hourly but will be billed monthly at 0.16 USD per month per gigabyte
  • Automated backup and restore for diverse workloads including Power VS accessed via multi-factor authentication and IBM Cloud Single Sign-On
  • Data validation integrity checks at block and object / file level with in-flight, to-storage, and at-rest encryption
  • Stored protected data is used capacity after deduplication and after compression
  • $0.00022 USD/Gigabyte hour

Priced per gigabyte hour

  • Per gigabyte hour of stored protected data
  • Pricing is calculated hourly but will be billed monthly at 0.16 USD per month per gigabyte
  • Automated backup and restore for diverse workloads including Power VS accessed via multi-factor authentication and IBM Cloud Single Sign-On
  • Data validation integrity checks at block and object / file level with in-flight, to-storage, and at-rest encryption
  • Stored protected data is used capacity after deduplication and after compression

Priced per gigabyte hour

single-copy-pricing
  • Per gigabyte hour of stored protected data
  • Pricing is calculated hourly but will be billed monthly at 0.12 USD per month per gigabyte
  • Automated backup and restore for diverse workloads including Power VS accessed via multi-factor authentication and IBM Cloud Single Sign-On
  • Data validation integrity checks at block and object / file level with in-flight, to-storage, and at-rest encryption
  • Stored protected data is used capacity after deduplication and after compression
  • $0.000165 USD/GIGABYTE_HOUR
  • Service
  • Cobalt Iron
  • 05/27/2025
  • Storage
  • IAM-enabled
  • Sydney (au-syd)
  • Dallas (us-south)
  • Frankfurt (eu-de)
  • London (eu-gb)
  • Madrid (eu-es)
  • Osaka (jp-osa)
  • Sao Paulo (br-sao)
  • Tokyo (jp-tok)
  • Washington DC (us-east)
  • Docs
  • Get help
  • Terms

Summary

Powered by Cobalt Iron Compass®
A single, unified, SaaS-based offering to backup and restore IBM PowerVS workloads and more!

With IBM Storage Protect, Compass protects a variety of PowerVS platforms, applications, and data classes including:

  1. AIX
  2. Linux
  3. Oracle on AIX
  4. Db2 on AIX
  5. SAP HANA on Linux
  6. IBM i (coming soon)

Compass delivers a variety of differentiated features and functionality:

  1. Simple, automated, instant-on
  2. Cloud backup service
  3. Resilient and compliant
  4. Usage-based pricing
  5. Native application integrations

The Compass offering provides a variety of integrated security and operational features including:

  1. Alerting, notifications, and ticketing features and integration
  2. Automated auditing and validation of backup server landscape
  3. Backup server automation – hands-free automation of all backup server tasks
  4. Centralized policy management
  5. Complete governance
  6. Customer data is encrypted in all phases from in-transit, to-storage, and at-rest
  7. Multitenancy and unlimited sub-organizations
  8. Role-based access control management

Features and capabilities

Key Compass Differentiators
  1. Begin Backing Up in Minutes
  2. Simple, Automated, Instant-on
  3. Automated Backup for PowerVS
  4. Simple & Intuitive User Interface

Compass Commander User Experience: Simple and intuitive user interface with exception-based management and insightful reporting

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Getting support

Cobalt Iron Compass Support—which is included as a part of the Compass solution—provides setup and problem resolution assistance from highly trained Compass specialists via our ticketingsystem. Our Support team offers help with:

  • Agent Provisioning and Reporting
  • Policies and Options
  • Agent Installation
  • Agent Protection Event Errors
  • Any issue with the Cobalt Iron Accelerators and
    associated storage

Compass Support is available during normal business hours, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. CT, excluding U.S. holidays. Customer tickets opened as urgent priority are responded to 24 x 7 x 365, as are Compass monitoring alerts for isolation of problems
and identification of faults or errors in the solution.


If you're experiencing issues with this product, use the following support information.

https://www.cobaltiron.com/cobalt-iron-support-for-powervs/
cisupport@cobaltiron.com
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Monday

1:00 PM - 10:00 PM UTC

Tuesday

1:00 PM - 10:00 PM UTC

Wednesday

1:00 PM - 10:00 PM UTC

Thursday

1:00 PM - 10:00 PM UTC

Friday

1:00 PM - 10:00 PM UTC

1 hour

https://support.cobaltiron.com
24 hours / 7 days a week

1 hour

888-584-4766
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24 hours / 7 days a week

1 hour

Support locations

Support locations refer to all of the countries in which product support teams are located.

  • United States
  • You must wait 1 hour after you contact this product's support before you can begin the escalation process.

    Tim Whited tdwhited@cobaltiron.com, Ken Smith - kwsmith@cobaltiron.com
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    1 hour

Summary

Cobalt Iron - Secure Automated Backup with Compass

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