TSM Explorer v6.3

Siberia Software has released TSMExplorer (ver 6.3). TSMExplorer and TSMExplorer Collector are an easy and powerful product for managing and monitoring IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. The product allows you to manage many TSM servers from a single sign-on and supports Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.

Check out the demos:

http://www.s-iberia.com/demo/demo1.html
http://www.s-iberia.com/demo/demo2.html 

or go to the main site:

http://www.s-iberia.com

TSM Power Admin

I was just made aware of TSM Power Admin by a fellow adsm.org contributor and must say I like some of the features available. I hope to be able to test it soon, but just the ability to run commands against all the servers from the command line (without setting up a server group) is a nice touch. If I do test Power Admin I'll post a review like I did for TSMManager years ago. (Wow it's been that long?!)

EMC Backup Advisor

I am currently working a project to install and setup EMC Backup Advisor in our environment. If anyone has experience with the product I'd like to hear your thoughts and opinions. So far it seems like it can monitor almost anything. Hopefully it doesn't become such a huge/complex tool that we'll spend half our time trying to manage it.