Funny
you asked the question as I am going thru the same procedure. DPM is
really targeted to the smaller – midsize environment they are by no means
an enterprise backup / recovery tool. Gartner group has CommVault and Symantec
rated as one two respectively. DPM has it’s limitation such
as it only backs up Microsoft products. No Oracle client, no SAP, no AIX,
no LINUX etc. Additionally DPM will not backup itself so DR might be a
little tricky. We just had CommVault in to give their speak…let me
tell you, it what they said is 100% true, Symantec has their work cut out to
keep up. CommVault will tell you straight up that the cost to implement
their product is by far more than Symantec yet they guarantee a TOC savings
over a two to three year span. They are basically a one stop shop with
Data replication, Data Archiving, fully operational reporting, extremely
scalable to name a few. CommVault’s support is suppose to be top
notch, based in the US with both first line and backline in the same physical
location. They offer the ability to perform multiple restores simultaneously
even if multiplexing was engaged performing the backup. CommVault offers
a real priority schedule where it doesn’t matter what policy is driving
the backup, if a job has a high priority, it will pause the running job so the
higher priority will take precedence. Especially useful when doing
restores. They offer Single Instance Storage, message level restore for
exchange as well as file level restore for SharePoint. Actually Microsoft
uses CommVault to backup their DPM servers…go figure. This is not
meant to say Symantec is a bad product as it has served me well for a few
years, simply saying it is good to see competition on the market. We have
been pretty satisfied w/ NBU, however there are items that are lacking or difficult
to manage and again if what CommVault states is true I’d bet CommVault
will be seeing more and more of the Market share in the Enterprise solution
space.
A
good site to visit for more CommVault information is http://documentation.commvault.com/
Cruicer.
From: Martin, Jonathan
[mailto:JMARTI05 AT intersil DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 9:43 AM
To: Randy Samora; VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup vs. The Rest of the World
I don't know very much about HP's Data Protector but I'm confident
that Microsoft's DPM isn't up to enterprise class after I evaled it last
year. That said, is there a reason you are not considering
Commvault? If Netbackup has a competitor in the enterprise space, from my
perspective Commvault is it.
-Jonathan
From:
veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Randy
Samora
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 3:32 PM
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup vs. The Rest of the World
I guess ’08 is the year my company wants me to justify
everything and now I’m having to defend NetBackup. I honestly
don’t think anyone here is wanting me to replace NetBackup but the check
signers want to see some comparisons with HP’s Data Protector and
Microsoft’s DPM. Does anyone have any experience with one or both
of the others and can you give me compelling reasons why you chose
NetBackup? From what I’ve read so far, the other two don’t really
appear to be true “Enterprise” sized solutions. I have over
800 clients, 4 remote installs and the home installation, and over 60TB of
data. While cost is probably the driving force behind me being tasked
with evaluating other options, the cost of changing out applications would obviously
not be cheap. But I need more ammunition. Anyone care to share
their good and/or bad experiences with any of the other backup applications?
Thank you,
Randy Samora
Team Lead - Enterprise Backup & Recovery
Enterprise Server and Storage Systems
randy.samora AT stewart DOT com
Mobile: 713.256.8224
Office: 713.625-8369