During our audit, I was commissioned to perform an exhaustively thorough search of the current backup vendors out there, and I included VTL and de-dupe technologies, etc. NBU or CommVault were a couple I was looking strongly at. Our true-up on licensing was THE #1 reason, as it shot a lot of our dollar figures way up. But truly, it's not like other products' licensing models are head and shoulders above TSM. It's management from the local level that TSM does not provide, and most of the other products I looked at do provide that within their product. And I did not appreciate the countless times I had to revise the spreadsheet the auditors asked to be provided, even though with each revision, I provided them with what was asked. I mean TSM already retrieves a lot of information from a clients host machine now. Can't they do anything with that and implement it into a near-future version of TSM?
BTW, my company decided to invest in our TSM environment instead, but I would have been fine with moving at the time. I was still hot under the collar. :) -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Orin Rehorst Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 9:13 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM being abandoned? A VTL vendor said he is seeing a number of mid-sized businesses migrating from TSM to NBU (Symantec). Do you think this is true? My concern is that the pool of support techs will shrink and put us in a bind. Regards, Orin Orin Rehorst Port of Houston ----------------------------------------- Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this email message is privileged and confidential information and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named in the address. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this information is strictly prohibited. If you received this information in error, please notify the sender and delete this information from your computer and retain no copies of any of this information.