Hi Nancy,

for workstations and laptops, I've always been a fan of CDP for files:

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/continuous-data-protection/

especially for mobile workstations that don't have a permanent connection to 
the TSM server, that may be the solution you're looking for.

On 28 mrt 2011, at 21:17, Nancy L Leugemors wrote:

> Hello Group,
> 
> I would like to know what products other TSM folks are using to back up
> laptops and desk tops in their environment?   We have a business
> requirement that started out with only backing up  an average of '200'
> termed laptops/workstations and need to keep the termed employees data for
> 10 years.   Now the business would like us to look into backing up all our
> laptops and workstations(approximately 2,000 Wintel desktops and 600
> Wintel laptops).   We believe the average capacity used may be 5-10GB. Our
> laptops are already encrypted with encryption software.    We have some
> remote offices with laptops(maybe 20 laptops).
> 
> We are currently started looking into the EMC Avamar product and IBM so
> far?
> 
> Anyone using Avamar, if yes, how is it working out for you,any gotcha's?
> Anyone using other products that may fit our needs?
> 
> 
> Background of our current backup environment:
> TSM Server:  5.5.4.0
> TSM OS:  AIX, 5.3
> We eliminated our physical tape environment in our open systems and
> mainframe environment last year.   We replaced our EDLs and physical tape
> libraries with Data Domains.   We emulated VTL library for 95% of our
> clients and have an NFS share for database logs and important TSM files.
> Then we replicate our opens systems(TSM) data domain and our mainframe
> data domain to an offsite data domain for DR recovery.
> 
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Nancy Leugemors
> Enterprise Systems
> HealthNow, NY
> 716-887-7979
> 
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