On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 08:52:16AM -0400, Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) wrote:
> After some prodding by Management I've been looking into "Storage
> Resource Management" (SRM) tools to assist with monitoring backups,
> reporting, troubleshooting etc etc...  Currently under evaluation are
> the following three tools which each have their own strengths /
> weaknesses and I'm wondering what everyone else is using (if any.)
> 
> Bocada Enterprise 4 - http://www.bocada.com/
> TEK-TOOLS Profiler for NBU - http://www.tek-tools.com/
> WysDM for Backups - http://www.wysdm.com/

Aptare StorageConsole - http://www.aptare.com

I did a head-to-head comparison against Bocada and it wasn't even close
- StorageConsole won by a long shot.  Their support is top-notch - when
I wanted to upgrade my release last week, they set up a Webex to my
workstation and walked me through it.  Not that I couldn't have done it
by myself, but it guaranteed that it was working properly by the time I
was done.  When it came up, Graeme showed me some of the new features
right away.  

StorageConsole supports both NetBackup and TSM but I haven't used any of
the TSM pieces so I have no idea how well they work.

        .../Ed

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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