I haven't seen the pricing structure, but I suspect that containing costs
completely depends on your site.   Since they appear to be basing it on a
capacity model rather than server/product model, I would suggest that:

- if you have a large number/types of servers to backup, but aren't really
huge from a TB capacity perspective, you'll save money
- if you have a relatively small number of servers to back up and/or you
store a large amount of data on TSM, you'll spend money

I suspect that you'd have to model it out both ways for your site and see
what comes out of it...

Paul


On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:59 AM, David E Ehresman
<deehre01 AT louisville DOT edu>wrote:

> I haven't heard anyone talking about this recently announced offering.
> Is IBM finally responding to complaints about their pricing structure?
> Is it really likely to contain costs?
>
> http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/1/897/ENUS211-201/ENUS211-201.PDF
>