I spent last Friday in the IBM labs in Mainz, to evaluate IBM's data deduplication engine, called ProtecTIER, and to see how well it integrates with IBM's backup flagship, TSM. Everything went quite smooth, though we lost quite some time due to a TSM bug - apparently it only scans SCSI attached libraries during startup, so it misses any online changes to these libraries.


Mainz's a lovely city, filled with cosy pubs and to restaurants converted churches. Shame we could only stay one night...