Look at Avamar from EMC. I don't know how expensive it is, and it'll take a re-architecting of your Storage (from tape to Disk), but it's one of many.
See Ya' Howard > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Conway, Timothy > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:31 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ADSM-L] Alternatives to TSM > > IBM just doubled our maintenance, so we're getting rid of TSM wholesale > and rearchitecting all pending IBM purchases for other platforms. > I had made and won the case for keeping it as our solution despite the > expense, at the level we were at through 2007, but there's no > discussion > for this change. I can't show an instantaneous doubling of the value > derived. An economic downturn is not the time to try to double your > margin on an existing product and customer base. > > Any suggestions? > > > > > 73, > > Tim Conway > Unix sysadmin, TSM admin > Swift & Company > 9705067998 > [email protected] >
