How large is your environment? Was Bocada not scalable to what you needed ?

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org] 
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 11:49 AM
To: John Meyers
Cc: Bobby R Windle; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup Reporting Software

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 09:20:08AM -0400, John Meyers wrote:
> Bobby R Windle wrote:
> >
> >Anyone no of any kind of Netbackup Reporting Software at a reasonable 
> >price?  I'm looking for something
> >that reports on clients as well as totals.  Files missed etc.   Anything 
> >but Advanced reporter!
> >
> >thanks
> >bobby
> 
>  Have you checked out Aptare? http://www.aptare.com/index.jsp  Not 
> sure about the pricing, but the specs look pretty good.  Anyone using  
> this product care to comment on it?
 
We evaluated both Bocada's BackupReport and Aptare's StorageConsole at the
same time.  Aptare wins in every category from installation, ease of use,
and vendor cooperation.  I started with BR and thought it was okay but not
great.  I then installed SC and the eval was effectively over - it wins
hands down.  We requested some features to be added to the product as part
of the purchase agreement and they did a great job in supplying those
features in a reasonable time.  The rest of you Aptare customers can thank
me for a few of those :-)

The pricing models between Bocada and Aptare are quite different so what's
cheaper for one customer could be more expensive for another.
The only way to know what you'll have to pay is to request a quote from
both.

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
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