Sounds like you had the same "people" that I started out with. :-O 'cause I had the same feelings about half way through our audit.
See Ya' Howard > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Bell, Charles (Chip) > Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 10:36 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM being abandoned? > > During our audit, I was commissioned to perform an exhaustively > thorough > search of the current backup vendors out there, and I included VTL and > de-dupe technologies, etc. NBU or CommVault were a couple I was looking > strongly at. Our true-up on licensing was THE #1 reason, as it shot a > lot of > our dollar figures way up. But truly, it's not like other products' > licensing > models are head and shoulders above TSM. It's management from the local > level > that TSM does not provide, and most of the other products I looked at > do > provide that within their product. And I did not appreciate the > countless > times I had to revise the spreadsheet the auditors asked to be > provided, even > though with each revision, I provided them with what was asked. I mean > TSM > already retrieves a lot of information from a clients host machine now. > Can't > they do anything with that and implement it into a near-future version > of > TSM? > > BTW, my company decided to invest in our TSM environment instead, but I > would > have been fine with moving at the time. I was still hot under the > collar. :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Orin > Rehorst > Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 9:13 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM being abandoned? > > A VTL vendor said he is seeing a number of mid-sized businesses > migrating from TSM to NBU (Symantec). Do you think this is true? My > concern is that the pool of support techs will shrink and put us in a > bind. > > Regards, > Orin > > Orin Rehorst > Port of Houston > > ----------------------------------------- > 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.
