Sounds like you had the same "people" that I started out with. :-O
'cause I had the same feelings about half way through our audit.

See Ya'
Howard


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of Bell, Charles (Chip)
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 10:36 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM being abandoned?
> 
> 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:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of Orin
> Rehorst
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 9:13 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT 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
> 
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