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[Veritas-bu] Anyone with Recent CommVault Experience?

2010-06-14 15:40:43
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Anyone with Recent CommVault Experience?
From: kenrblan1901 <netbackup-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
To: VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:25:39 -0400
I just changed employers and am now managing an existing NBU 6.5 deployment 
which I will be upgrading to NBU 7. I had built the backup solution at my 
previous employer on CommVault 5.0 and upgraded it to Simpana v7. Had I not 
switched employers, I would have upgraded to version 8.

As far as I can tell, the products have very similar feature sets, but very 
different user interfaces. Commvault has a much cleaner approach when it comes 
to backup job scheduling, at least in my opinion. Unless Commvault had changed 
their licensing structure, they might be trailing Symantec in terms of cost. 
Netbackup can now be licensed on a capacity basis rather than a per application 
and client basis. That has the potential to create some cost savings for many. 
I am looking forward the the client side and media server deduplication 
features in NBU 7. Reporting was much better in Simpana than Netbackup (at 
least comparing Simpana 7 to NBU 6.5). 

I definitely would not call myself an expert in backup (yet) as that was one of 
a dozen repsonsibilities I had at my old employer. With my current company, I 
will be focused on just backup for the foreseeable future.

HTH,
Ken

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