To all:

They were using HARBOR here at this company before I arrived, but there had
never been a move to upgrade or use the system much beyond its original
installation features. When I came on board, I reviewed HARBOR against a
number of other backup/archive software systems including ADSM, and simply
found that HARBOR was (1) slow to respond to changing technology on the few
platforms it supported; and (2) that concerns from other users were
mounting about its ability to gracefully handle large transfers of data
(either from a backup or a restore) in any scenario. This was a little
unnerving with a higher emphasis on disaster recovery looming over most
companies.

IMHO: I believe HARBOR may be a good product for smaller organizations that
are not expecting large amounts of storage growth or mad switches in
preferred platforms over an non-specific period of time.

I will admit the first version of ADSM was cumbersome and tedious, and
other products were serious contenders for the same markets during that
first year or so. But IBM has taken on a gigantic task in keeping ahead of
the storage management crowd with updates to ADSM, and responding to users'
requirements (and demands in many cases). Support for such a large number
of platforms in both the client and server arenas is a major plus --- there
were no other products that came close to the numbers of platforms (and
versions) supported. And upgrades really do provide the fixes and features
that create a better storage management environment.

The main thing ADSM brought to the table was experience: none of the other
products could promise to have such a broad band of knowledge involved in
the development and support of a multi-function, multi-platform software
solution for an increasingly more visible component of any business. At
least IBM had the forethought to get on the right horse BEFORE the race
this time....

C.L.Cannam
Storage Management
GENAM/St. Louis, MO/USA




"Smith, Richard" <smithrr AT MARITZ DOT COM> on 02/11/98 08:02:41 AM

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>

To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
cc:    (bcc: Cindy Cannam)
Subject:  Re: ADSM alternatives




        Just a note... We are using Harbor for one of our NT servers and
about
10 Novell servers, and plan to replace it with ADSM.
Rick Smith
Maritz, Inc.
Storage & Security Administration
smithrr AT maritz DOT com
(314) 827-1584
> ----------
> From:         Hauenstein Peter[SMTP:Peter.Hauenstein AT AID.ZH DOT CH]
> Sent:         Wednesday, February 11, 1998 3:17 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: ADSM alternatives
>
> If you are looking for another solution, have a look at Harbor from
> Interlink.
> web: http:/www.interlink.com
>
> Peter
>