We are just finishing a Proof of Concept on Avamar, EMC's deduplication
offering.  We have not made the decision to purchase, but the testing
went very well. 

It is better than most deduplication appliances because it actually has
it's own backup client, so you can eliminate TSM licenses and shrink
your TSM environment as you deploy it.  Along with Unix, Windows, and
Linux clients, it has special clients for Oracle RMAN, SQL, Exchange,
etc.

We do not have a goal to eliminate TSM entirely, but it is growing
rapidly and Avamar will contain the growth with better efficiency than
buying more regular disk and tape.


Best Regards,

John D. Schneider 
Phone: 314-364-3150 
Cell: 314-750-8721
Email:  John.Schneider AT Mercy DOT net 


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Howard Coles
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:06 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Alternatives to TSM

Look at Avamar from EMC.  I don't know how expensive it is, and it'll
take a re-architecting of your Storage (from tape to Disk), but it's one
of many.

See Ya'
Howard


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of Conway, Timothy
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:31 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Alternatives to TSM
> 
> IBM just doubled our maintenance, so we're getting rid of TSM
wholesale
> and rearchitecting all pending IBM purchases for other platforms.
> I had made and won the case for keeping it as our solution despite the
> expense, at the level we were at through 2007, but there's no
> discussion
> for this change.  I can't show an instantaneous doubling of the value
> derived.  An economic downturn is not the time to try to double your
> margin on an existing product and customer base.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 73,
> 
> Tim Conway
> Unix sysadmin, TSM admin
> Swift & Company
> 9705067998
> timothy.conway AT jbssa DOT com
> 
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