Hi Bill,
We had a couple "CLOUD" vendors in here pitching the same thing.
I think the real question is "Is it cost effective?".

Based on the cost per GB per month and other compliance requirements we have 
that increase the "per month" cost, we found that our in house TSM solution is 
more cost effective than using cloud services.

With our recent expansion the subject came up again. 
This time we had real world numbers for annual cost from Iron Mountain for a 
specific amount of data.
We are able to meet our DR and Data retention requirements with TSM for 2/3 the 
cost.

But when you are talking in excess of 50TBs an in-house library seems to make 
more sense.


If we have a remote site with substantial data and in order to support with TSM 
we would have increase bandwidth, then the Iron Mountain solution would be much 
more attractive.




-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Bill Boyer
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:47 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: TSM and Cloud backup/recovery

I have a client that is currently TSM, but they are looking at alternative
solutions and Iron Mountain is in there briefing on their CloudRecovery
system and DPM. They are very interested in that whole "cloud" concept. Is
anyone out there using some kind of "cloud" recovery service/ provider and
TSM? We need to be able to counter and talk semi-intelligently about cloud
backup offerings.

TIA,
Bill Boyer