Re: server based archive solution

From: Bob Christian (BobChristian_at_removethis.gmail.com)
Date: 10/26/04 

Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:05:41 -0500

Honestly, it all depends upon your environment and what your business
requirements are. One client had to find a financially/excutive stable
company that was not in danger of going under due to their fear of the
SarBox/SOX regulations. For that reason they excluded companies that had
recent problems with financials, layoffs, or executives and they excluded
companies that did not serve the Fortune 100 space. The stability kind of
limited the scope.

I have utilized most of the major products over the past 7 years working
with various organizations and software packages:
CommVault, VeriTas (BackupExec and NetBackup), Microsoft NTBackup, Legato,
CA ArcServe, and Tivoli.

Lately CommVault has been an impressive app and a hands-down winner for
large Windows-heavy environments that I have worked in. With small Windows
environments I always try to utilize Veritas Backup Exec or the built-in
NTBackup (Veritas Light). With heavy Unix environments I have seen Legato
or CommVault. With heavy AIX environments...Tivoli.

A few months ago I worked with a team of 2 engineers working full-time on
finding a new archival solution and CommVault won it for that environment
with a 4.6 out of 5.0 possible. The environment had AD, Netware, Unix, SQL,
homegrown app servers, Exchange, and just about anything else that could be
thrown on a network. The others were very close and Legato had the hearts
of the Unix folks...but management wanted something ran from the Windows
space that could be easily managed via GUI.

Veritas used to be hands-down the best, but they have laid off some of their
best folks One of the guys that I worked with from Veritas was laid off in
the middle of a conference call a few years ago.

As far as support is concerned, CommVault, Legato, and Tivoli/IBM have great
support in that order.

I won't even get into the nightmares with CA ....

Bob

"Sunish Abraham" <sunisha@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:OnJcMRquEHA.3948@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> i was looking for a good server based email archive solutions...we
currently
> have inidividual users using Outlook archive but i wanted to move the
> "responsibility" of archiving to the server-level ; the MSFT exchange
sites
> lists some vendors
> (http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/partners/archivingandcompliance.asp)
but
> i was wondering what other people had used and what they liked/disliked
> about the product they chose (or evaluated) ; thanks for any help!!
>
>

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