>From a technical point of view I personally wouldn't think so in this case -
the TSM SAN Storage Agent is a significant piece of code in its own right
(pretty much a cut-down TSM Server I understand) to be sparingly used (in my
opinion) for very specific applications and scenarios to meet particular
backup and recovery requirements. It's quite a different beast from the B/A
client, requiring IBM development and support resources of its own I'm sure
on top of the BA client stuff, so it being an additional licensed item kinda
makes sense to me.

/DMc
London



-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Mehdi Salehi
Sent: 18 May 2009 11:26
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] LAN-free requirements

Is that based on marketing reasons that IBM don't try to merge some TSM
products such as B/A client and storage agent? Even the continuous
protection for windows-based clients.

Mehdi