Look into Storage Based licensing as an alternative.  We switched to that
model for the large majority of our backups (535TB). Also worked out a
hybrid setup where we purchase n-PVU licenses for boxes that are really big
(>50TB each)


On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Lamb, Charles P. <cplamb AT nppd DOT com> 
wrote:

> Hi.................
>
> We are switching from IBM servers (x3650-Mx) to CISCO Blades (UCS B200-M3)
> in our VMware environment.  We are receiving pricing from our IBM VAR for
> the CISCO blades that very high.   CISCO blades have twice as many cores
> than the IBM servers.  Boss is very upset about the issue.
>
> Does anyone have alternative to TSM clients and TSM TDP for Database which
> would interface with TSM servers and be less costly??
>
> Your thoughts??
>



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