CA 1 Tape Management vs. IBM Spectrum Control Comparison

Pros
package that manages all of your tapes. Create/write/catalog, retention, delete. There are queries and reports, which are needed to know when/where/length keeping, etc., in order to track them or find out current status.It has become easy to backup and archive all our system data and financial data. It helps us mainly in managing the backup of our databases, and it is easy to retrieve that data and find it in a secure place.The tapes are mounted automatically. You can read a tape automatically without waiting for someone to insert it.With this product, it all becomes automatic: locating the data, backing up the data, restoring the data. We can automate all that with it. Read more »	The benefits would be mostly the ability to diagnose a problem.The most valuable feature is the ease of use. The ability to get into a storage device and look at whatever you are trying to look at as far as performance, then obtain the reports that you need to do your analytical work.The installation was very easy. You just install an agent on a server, and you give that agent access to your storage device, then it just collects the data. It took five minutes to set up. Read more »
Cons
The product itself is fairly complex so the install is as well.When we want to interface the CA 1 product with other vendors, IBM or others, it is difficult to interface it with them, because you need some exits, you need to compile some assemblers. Read more »	If we were to add VM level performance being able to monitor VMs on a VM level, then that would be good.I would like to see is more information regarding the copy groups (the replication). Read more »

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6th out of 23 in Storage Management Views 132 Comparisons 55 Reviews 3 Average Words per Review 346 Avg. Rating 9.7	4th out of 23 in Storage Management Views 473 Comparisons 254 Reviews 2 Average Words per Review 694 Avg. Rating 8.0
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BrightStor Tape Management	Spectrum Control
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Overview
CA 1 Tape Management (CA 1) is designed to simplify and unify the management and protection of z/OS tape data sets and volumes. It automates day-to-day z/OS tape management tasks to save your organization time and money. It enables a higher level of integrity for tape data while providing comprehensive protection against the inadvertent destruction of tape files. CA 1 helps you maintain data integrity, providing tools to continually check your data and prevent overwriting. To give you greater control, a Web-based Graphical Management Interface streams detailed tape volume information and provides a common platform for more efficient management practices.	IBM Spectrum Control is a comprehensive solution that can significantly improve monitoring, automation and analytics capabilities in multi-vendor storage environments. IBM Spectrum Control helps manage storage systems, software-defined storage, storage-area network (SAN) fabrics and devices. Storage can be seen from multiple perspectives, including departmental, application and server views. IBM Spectrum Control helps simplify provisioning, tier optimization, performance management and data replication processes.
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Pricing and Cost Advice
Information Not Available	We were already licensing Spectrum Control. This was one reasons why we went to Control rather than using the other product.It is pay for the amount of storage that you are monitoring. The more that we use the tool and like the tool, we may want to extend it to other storage platforms. This is just a matter of cost. Read more »

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