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Would you please post the following request for information to your
Would you please post the following request for information to your
mailing list? I am not authorized to do so. The information will be very
useful in the research I am doing for an article on backup and storage
management for my newsletter, the Best Practices Report.
My deadline for the article is Feb. 20, so the sooner the request gets
posted, the more helpful it will be for me. Your assistance would be
greatly appreciated.
-Jon Bines
> The forthcoming issue of the Network and Systems Managers' Best Practices
> The forthcoming issue of the Network and Systems Managers' Best Practices
> Report is doing a special focus on backup and storage management. Our
> focus is on commercial solutions for large, heterogeneous, networked
> environments. I'd appreciate your help in selecting a backup product as
> best-of-breed in this category.
>
> The products under consideration in the article include Legato NetWorker,
> Epoch's backup/storage mgmt. products, IBM ADSM, Open Vision NetBackup,
> Computer Associates' backup/HSM tools, and several others. We may also
> cover tools such as BudTool and ArcServe, although these seem to be more
> "domain" than "enterprise" products, in terms of scalability and
> robustness. I'm especially interested in hearing from anyone with
> experience with the new ADSM products running on an RS/6000 or OS/2
> server.
>
> I'd greatly appreciate hearing about any good/bad experiences you've
> had with any of these products, or others you feel are worth mentioning.
> Our readership is primarily CIOs and top-level IS managers, so I'm not
> looking for anything too technical. Specific questions I'd like to hear
> about include:
>
> 1. How reliable is the product?
> 2. How does it scale?
> 3. What are its particular strenghts and weaknesses?
> 4. How well is the product supported?
> 5. What are the most important issues for CIOs to consider when
> implementing an "enterprise" backup strategy?
>
> Some info about the newsletter is below, FYI. Thanks in advance!
>
> -Jon Bines
>
> * * * * *
>
> ABOUT THE BEST PRACTICES REPORT:
>
> The Best Practices Report (BPR) is the newsletter for top-level
> managers of distributed networks and systems. BPR's charter is to capture
> the experiences of pioneering users and make that knowledge available to
> companies, government agencies, and univ ersities attempting to implement
> distributed, networked, and client/server computing. The newsletter
> provides CIOs, project managers, and other IS managers with a wealth of
> information on all aspects of managing distributed systems, including:
>
> - Metrics and Benchmarks which Define Best Practices
> - Profiles of Pioneering Users
> - Focus on Problem Areas in Sys/Net Management (Security
> Backup, Perf. Monitoring, etc.)
> - Staff Management Issues
> - Cost-Justifying IS Budgets
> - Comparative Analyses of Management Platforms and
> Applications
> - Best-Of-Breed Product Selections
> - Coverage of Major Conferences (ComNet, UniForum,
> ComDex, etc.)
> - Other Fun Stuff.
>
> BPR covers management issues at a fairly high level--it's not a
> technical newsletter (After all, the tech community already has a terrific
> best practices group: it's called the Internet). So if you're a SysAdmin,
> I'd appreciate it if you'd pass word a long to your boss/es. In return,
> we'll try to include a few articles about why they should be paying you
> more.
>
> Please feel free to send any queries/information/leads to me at
> jonbines AT panix DOT com. I'd be especially interested in hearing from
> organizations that are implementing leading-edge management solutions for
> their distributed systems--if you are from such an organization, or can
> direct me to one, I'd be grateful. Also, if you'd like complete info on
> the newsletter, send me your postal address and I'll mail you our
> brochure.
>
>
>
> Jon Bines (jonbines AT panix DOT com) ^ "I don't want to achieve immortality
> ^
> NSM Best Practices Rept. ^ through my work, I want to achieve it ^
> 203 1st Ave #1 NY NY 10003 ^ through not dying." ^
> Phone/Fax 212-254-7064 ^ -W. Allen ^
>
>
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