Why not have HP come in or better yet, have them set up a lab/demo environment up for you? Explain to them that your company has gone through an acquisition and that you now own/manage/maintain two infrastructures and that your goal is to consolidate down to a single platform. My guess is that they will do whatever they can to help you to understand why Omniback is superior to NBU. This will put you in a better - not ideal, but better position to evaluate the HP solution in light of your organization's requirements.
By going through this process, your recommendation, whatever it is, should be much more credible to your management team, than it would be otherwise. --Steve =================================== Steven L. Sesar Lead Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst Storage Architect UNIX Application Services R101 The MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Road - MS K101 Bedford, MA 01730 tel: (781) 271-7702 fax: (781) 271-2600 mobile: (617) 519-8933 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================== -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 6:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] HP Omniback vs Netbackup Can you quantify this a bit? I agree in principle, now I need to sell where NB crushes HP like the niche product it is. -M -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peacock Dennis - dpeaco Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 2:15 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] HP Omniback vs Netbackup Run from Omniback.....run fast and hard. Netbackup is your solution. Shoot, I'd rather use TAR and DD rather than Omniback. Thank You, Dennis Peacock EBCA Acxiom Corporation -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of spaldam Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 3:07 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] HP Omniback vs Netbackup What little experience I've had with Omniback tells me that it's not as fully featured as NetBackup, but that it works really well for remote sites (one of the reason's NetBackup came up with Pure Disk - to better compete in that area). I'd suggest reading up as much as you can on Omniback, so you can explain the differences, and tell give them specifics about how NetBackup is better. Switching out a backup solutions is never a simple task either. Believe me, I've done it a few times. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ************************************************************************ *** The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please resend this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system. Thank You. ************************************************************************ **** _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu