I spoke with sepaton, emc, copan, IBM, and sun over the course of 4 months starting in Jan. of 2006. I choose to go with sepaton for a number of reasons: they scale by size and PERFORMANCE (which is something none of the others could match), price was good and maint. was reasonable, roadmap for future products was excellent and wasn't dependent on what falconstor was doing, and I liked the way they approached doing large block I/0. All the vendors accept sepaton just ran falconstor on their hardware and I didn't like that approach. Copan I believe didn't use falconstor but their unit was so heavy that it couldn't sit on a raised floor in the datacenter if it was full. Sepaton was the only pure VTL vendor meaning that VTLs were all they focused on. I have not had any problems since the installation 3-4 months ago and like I tell others the sepaton vtl has literally "given my life back" meaning that I am not checking TSM every few hours daily even while on vacation anymore. I don't want to sound like an ad campaign for sepaton but in my opinion their leading the pack and their support team is excellent as well.
On Fri, August 11, 2006 3:02 pm, Larry Peifer wrote: > We've narrowed down our search for a VTL appliance to use with TSM to the > 2 subject vendors. I'd like to hear the pros/ cons from the TSM users > community on their experiences with these devices: Reliability, vendor > service, performance etc. All comments welcomed. > > Larry Peifer > TSM / AIX Administrator >
