It isn't necessarily a marketing ploy, there are legitimate reasons to 
integrate.

First, EMC intends to fully integrate Avamar into the Legato platform in the 
long run, as far as I can tell from speaking with my guys.

Second, if you currently have a Legato infrastructure, and plan on adding 
Avamar to only a portion of your infrastructure (i.e. remote office), 
scheduling and maintaining Avamar from within Legato gives you a single console 
to manage all of your backups from, rather than having to open Avamar console 
while you're already in Legato.  This also helps to consolidate reporting as 
well, if you're using the internal reporting.

Third, if you would like to deploy Avamar, but it doesn't have the desired 
application plugins (Lotus Notes, Exchange, whatever), by managing the backups 
from within Networker, you can leverage all of its existing plugins.

I'm sure there are more, those are just a few.


Bruce Breidall wrote:
> Thanks Dave.
> 
> I think this is a marketing ploy for EMC to try and create some reason
> why a customer would actually want to hang on to Networker.
> 
> No offense, but I don't see this as a compelling reason to choose one
> version over the other, especially if you don't own avamar (which is
> very expensive).
> 
> Do you have a plan to get to avamar? Why would you even need NW if you
> have avamar? I am guilty of not knowing the benefits of having this NW
> and avamar arrangement.
> 
> It looks like 7.3 is a completely different set of code than 7.4, with a
> completely different set of patches and problems.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER < at > LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU] 
> On
> Behalf Of David Dulek
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 9:55 AM
> To: NETWORKER < at > LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] upgrade path
> 
> Avamar plugs into Networker in version 7.4.1 and is compatible with the
> 7.3.3 
> clients.
> 
> On Tuesday 01 April 2008, Joe Infantino wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 14:37:15 +0100, Davina Treiber
> > 
> > <Davina.Treiber < at > PEEVRO.CO.UK> wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there a good reason why you are going to 7.3.3 rather than 7.4.1?
> > > 
> > 
> Do
> 
> > 
> > > you perceive it to be more stable? If so, what particular bugs are
> > > 
> > 
> you
> 
> > 
> > > expecting to avoid?
> > > 
> > 
> > The rest of my environment, 40 Servers, are running 7.3.3 and I just
> > 
> wanted
> 
> > to get to a common platform before I switch to Avamar within the next
> > 
> year.
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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