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Re: [Veritas-bu] Aptare Storage Console vs. Veritas Backup Reporter
2008-02-05 07:06:35
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I would agree with Ed, that Aptare is a much better product
them VBR.
Depending on your size, check out backupVISUAL. It is
a very easy product to learn and it was extremely simple to
install.
Kevin
It's been a while since I've done the head-to-head but I recently
asked my salesrep for a quote on VBR to see if it might be worthwhile be
switching. VBR is considerably more expensive than Aptare's
StorageConsole. However, I will add that I just saw Aptare's new license
terms today and didn't like them one bit. I've got a query in to
them...
In terms of straight feature comparisons, I believe that Aptare
still wins (it wasn't even close when we purchased StorageConsole). I've
seen their 6.5 release although I haven't had a chance to install it yet and
it's quite impressive - I've been hounding my Unix admins to give me a
production environment to put it on (it doesn't support RHEL 3 which is where
I'm currently at on the portal).
The one thing I've noticed about backup
reporting products is that there are features in there that are very important
to some customers and very useless to others. There may be 1 feature in
there that you absolutely have to have so it's in your best interest to have a
detailed look at what you need and what each product has to offer. Start
with price quotes from both vendors, pick the cheapest, do a through analysis of
it, and if it meets all of your needs, you're done. If there's stuff
missing, then you may have to step up in price. What you'll find out,
though, is that in some cases you're paying for features you may never need and
that's just wasting money.
Aptare and Veritas aren't the only players in
the game these days either.
Yes, I know that both Veritas and Aptare are
listening :-)
.../Ed
On Feb 4, 2008 3:53 PM, Forester, Jack L < jack.l.forester AT lmco DOT com>
wrote:
I'm
looking at reporting tools for NetBackup, and was wondering if
anyone has
done a head-to-head comparison of Storage Console vs. Backup
Reporter.
Aptare has always received high praise here, and the Veritas
product,
well, has never been mentioned in the same breath as Aptare.
I've heard
that Backup reporter has improved over the years, but can it
yet hold a
candle to Storage Console?
--
Ed Wilts, Mounds
View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
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