On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 11:12:59AM -0500, Loyless, Maureen wrote:
> Has anyone had experience working with the Advanced Reporter option
> and/or Command Central?  I was curious on your thoughts of either or
> both.  We are looking at both of these products and wanted to gather
> some thoughts on functionality, differences, usefulness, etc.

There are 2 other commercial products that you should consider if you're
looking at Advanced Reporter:
BackupReport from Bocada (http://www.bocada.com)
StorageConsole from Aptare (http://www.aptare.com)

I've started the evaluation for our purposes here and am running a demo
of BackupReport now.  I haven't started the eval for StorageConsole yet.
The products take rather different approaches to try and accomplish the
same thing, for better and for worse.  BackupReport also supports data
from multiple backup products, not just NetBackup.  StorageConsole
appears to be NetBackup only.

If anybody out there has done a side-by-side comparison of the two, I'd
love to see the results and compare them with what I'm working with.

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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