No doubt. Cost was purely our reason, and I agree with everything else you said. IBM freaked out and came back with a drastically reduced price. So at this point, I'm probably doing "due diligence", but to my face they are saying that we may still replace our backup software, so rock-fetching I will go until told otherwise. <pant-pant-pant> RUFF!
-----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Lipp Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 1:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM vs. Legato Networker Comparison And besides cost, is there any apparent technical reason to undertake such a thing in the first place? I.e., are you or your management in some way unhappy with the backup processing? Again, except for the cost? I also think there is a golden opportunity to work with your current backup vendor to get the cost for you inline with what the proposed competition is offering. Doing this may forestall the entire rock fetch you've been asked to undertake. The real funny thing is that at the end of the day, the cost (when done over a period of years rather than a single purchase) will be nearly identical no matter which vendor you choose. But you will have been through the rock fetch, and perhaps a painful migration only to learn this simple fact. If only management (who should know better than to waste valuable time and money) understood this before sending us poor technical slobs on the mission... Kelly J. Lipp VP Manufacturing & CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM vs. Legato Networker Comparison Interesting. We are doing the same thing, but with multiple vendors, for the EXACT same reason you are. We are generating a single RFI that we will send to each vendor, and get our comparison that way. Not done yet, and I'm not looking forward to it. I like TSM as a product, and I'm not looking forward to a possible migration, 'cause like you said, there will be a cost associated with it (more media/drives?, hardware, fill in the blank). We are supposed to be talking with EMC soon, and have already talked to CommVault, BakBone, Syncsort, and Symantec. Good luck with that. :) -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schneider, John Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM vs. Legato Networker Comparison Greetings, We have been a TSM shop for many years, but EMC came to our management with a proposal to replace our TSM licenses with Legato Networker, at a better price than what we are paying for TSM today. This came right on the heels of paying our large TSM license bill, and so it got management's attention. We have an infrastructure of 15 TSM servers and about 1000 clients, so this would be a large and painful migration. It would also require a great deal of new hardware and consultant costs during the migration, which would detract from the cost savings. So instead of jumping from one backup product to another based on price alone, we have been asked to do an evaluation between the two products. Do any of you have any feature comparisons between the two products that would give me a head start? Best Regards, John D. Schneider Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------- Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this email message is privileged and confidential information and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named in the address. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this information is strictly prohibited. If you received this information in error, please notify the sender and delete this information from your computer and retain no copies of any of this information.
