IBM is amazing in the remarkable wealth of material they produce to
document and explain their products.  An area you may not yet have
explored provides an excellent introduction to newer facilities as
well as tutorials in the basics of the product.  That area is IBM
Education Assistant.  Go to the following link

 
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ieduasst/tivv1r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.iea.tsm/tsm/

and click on Tivoli Storage Manager in the left pane, then explore the
Flash video, and PDF presentations.  These may be particularly helpful
to customers who are new to TSM.

  thanks, IBM

     Richard Sims