I have been to both. Storage Symposium is good, but SHARE is much better for what you are looking for. I am one of the Deputy Project Officers at SHARE on the Distributed Storage Project. There were many sessions at SHARE on TSM in the Distributed Storage Project. The quality of the people to network on TSM is excellent at SHARE. I highly recommend an TSM Administrator to attend these sessions. The main advantage to SHARE is you can submit requirements to TSM Development and get the vote of many people pulling for you.
Yes, I am a person that believes in SHARE. Besides SHARE only costs about $900. The Storage Symposium costs a lot more. The reason, SHARE is a non-profit users group formed in the 1950s and very well off. Storage Symposium is an IBM Learning for profit offering. If you have an Education Ticket from IBM, then going to the Storage Symposium is basically free, but the ticket costs over $4K. -----Original Message----- From: Kai Hintze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 12:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Which conference do you recommend? Looking at next year's education budget. My boss says he will send me to one (and only one) conference. The two leading contenders at this time are SHARE (March in Nashville) and the Storage Symposium (August in Salt Lake City). >From people who have been to one or both, which do you recommend and why? Is there another conference I ought to look at?* My job is largely TSM administration, but also a fair amount of general Unix System Admin. Also, does anyone know where I can get information from the two sessions titled "Everything you always wanted to know about TSM Database, parts 1 and 2" in last years Storage Symposium? Thanks, Kai. * I know about the TSM Symposium at Oxford, but I don't think he will spring to send me across the Pond. I also glanced at the Usenix/ACM FAST, but that seems rather more oriented to computer scientists, and less to do with Information Services.
