Re: [ADSM-L] TSM vs. Legato Networker Comparison

Interesting. We are doing the same thing, but with multiple vendors, for the
EXACT same reason you are. We are generating a single RFI that we will send
to each vendor, and get our comparison that way. Not done yet, and I'm not
looking forward to it. I like TSM as a product, and I'm not looking forward
to a possible migration, 'cause like you said, there will be a cost
associated with it (more media/drives?, hardware, fill in the blank).

We are supposed to be talking with EMC soon, and have already talked to
CommVault, BakBone, Syncsort, and Symantec.

Good luck with that.  :)

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Schneider, John
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:55 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM vs. Legato Networker Comparison

Greetings,
        We have been a TSM shop for many years, but EMC came to our
management with a proposal to replace our TSM licenses with Legato
Networker, at a better price than what we are paying for TSM today.
This came right on the heels of paying our large TSM license bill, and
so it got management's attention.
        We have an infrastructure of 15 TSM servers and about 1000
clients, so this would be a large and painful migration.  It would also
require a great deal of new hardware and consultant costs during the
migration, which would detract from the cost savings.
        So instead of jumping from one backup product to another based
on price alone, we have been asked to do an evaluation between the two
products.  Do any of you have any feature comparisons between the two
products that would give me a head start?  


Best Regards,

John D. Schneider
Email:  schnjd AT stlo.mercy DOT net

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