FWIW, a little while ago, a CA tech person was onsite for two days with the
operators here (unbeknownst to me, like the TSM admin should know,
anyway...) checking out our operation and set up.

Guess what-- he ended up calling the sales rep that was coming, to tell him
not to bother with the sales pitch for Brightstor, it wouldn't do anything
for us.

The only thing storage wise they ended up pitching was a Storage Area
Network manager product-- but the gotcha there was that it was how the
product was "supposed" to work-- it wasn't actually shrink-wrapped at this
point in time;-)



                    "Mr. Lindsay
                    Morris"               To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
                    <lmorris@server       cc:
                    graph.com>            Subject:     Re: Computer Associates 
- Brightstore Resource Manager for
                    Sent by: "ADSM:        TSM
                    Dist Stor
                    Manager"
                    <ADSM-L AT VM DOT MARI
                    ST.EDU>


                    10/29/2002
                    12:35 PM
                    Please respond
                    to lmorris






CA seems to buy tools / companies and market them like crazy, but not put
any energy into improving or supporting them.

I'd be interested in hearing your take on what features this product has,
and what it costs.
---------------------------------
Mr. Lindsay Morris
Lead Architect, Servergraph
www.servergraph.com
859-253-8000 ofc
425-988-8478 fax


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
> Jim Taylor
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 1:27 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Computer Associates - Brightstore Resource Manager for TSM
>
>
> Anyone out there heard of this CA product and have any experience with
it.
> We have just been bought out by a large company that has bought into CA
> tools, big time.  They want me to look at this CA component that
> was written
> for TSM.  My question is ' will it provide me with anything of value'?
>
> Skeptically yours,
>
>         Jim Taylor
> Technology Services
> Enlogix
> *  E-mail: jtaylor AT enlogix DOT com
> *  Office: (416) 496-5266
> * Cell:  (416)458-6802
> *   Fax: (416) 496-5245
>