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"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.""The solution is stable.""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."

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"I am very happy with the stability. When your customers don't notice anything wrong, that's the biggest win for a product.""It has helped us optimize our storage.""The Performance Manager: Where we get performance statistics.""It's stable and gives good feedback on performance.""Once we gathered and saw what we were doing with everything, we saved close to a petabyte worth of data by being able to delete old data and move stuff around. Thus, we became more efficient.""We haven't gone to the extent where we are using the anomaly detection, but from a reporting perspective and single-pane-of-glass perspective, to look at our heterogeneous infrastructure, it is doing a great job.""It gives visibility to the VMs.""Performance monitoring of hundreds of switches and being able to see results in one dashboard."

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"The solution's cost needs improvement.""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."

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"NetApp OnCommand Insight is a pretty good tool, and the only concern I have with it is the price. Its price is quite high and could be improved because the licensing feature of this particular tool is on a per GB basis instead of the price being for the complete tool itself. The more you discover, the more you need to pay, and this makes NetApp OnCommand Insight more costly when compared to other tools which are available in the market.""It's the interop matrix. And if there was a chance to orchestrate on a heterogeneous structure using OCI, that would be a great start; or at least a plugin to each one of them, that would be a great start too.""The UI: They have been growing and changing. There's been some growing pains with that, but they are moving into the new HTML5 interface, which is fantastic.""I would like to see better graphics. We have seen regular graphs and pie graphs. I am sure that there are better ways to show this information.""The initial setup is complex. There is a lot of stuff to set up. I had to teach my guys a lot of things, so there was a lot of learning.""When we first went to Cluster Mode, we had a lot of problems. Setup took a few months. We had people onsite, including one of the top guys from NetApp for a while. Going from 7-Mode to Cluster Mode was rough.""I'd like it to be more stable, simpler, and get Java out of it.""Enhance SNMP monitoring in order to broaden the number of storages that can be discovered."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Pricing by terabytes, not the end of the world, and that's okay. Stop if I want this, I have to buy that. Just release it as a single product."
  • "The cost: It is expensive as a solution. You need to be an expert to get anything out of it and we don't have that kind of expertise."
  • "For me, it is always too much. Licensing is on TBs, and I think, nowadays that is outmoded."
  • "The company has saved money by narrowing down issues faster using servers and performance."
  • "We like that it is one license and everything is bundled in together."
  • "We just made a major investment back in May of this year, so we'll have it for another four and a half or five years easily. Thus, we have a five year bumper to bumper agreement."
  • "Pricing for NetApp OnCommand Insight could be cheaper. On a scale of one to five, I would rate its price a four."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The solution is stable.
    Top Answer:The solution's pricing could be better.
    Top Answer:OnCommand Insight's most valuable feature is the ability to see figure applications.
    Top Answer:Pricing for NetApp OnCommand Insight could be cheaper. On a scale of one to five, I would rate its price a four.
    Top Answer:OnCommand Insight is really limited compared to what Cloud Insights is doing. It lacks AI to protect against ransomware and identify users accessing things abnormally.
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    Also Known As
    BrightStor Tape Management
    OCI
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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.

    NetApp OnCommand Insight management software delivers consistent insight across your data center so you can monitor and manage your hybrid IT multivendor storage, compute, and switching infrastructures.

    Sample Customers
    TravelPort, AlphaServe, Rogers Communication
    Société Générale, TechnologyOne
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm25%
    Insurance Company22%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Government11%
    REVIEWERS
    Energy/Utilities Company17%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Government8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Government13%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise4%
    Large Enterprise75%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business6%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise86%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise4%
    Large Enterprise82%
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    CA 1 Tape Management is ranked 7th in Storage Management with 6 reviews while NetApp OnCommand Insight is ranked 6th in Storage Management with 37 reviews. CA 1 Tape Management is rated 9.6, while NetApp OnCommand Insight is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of CA 1 Tape Management writes "An easy-to-use solution with good technical support services". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp OnCommand Insight writes "Gives an end-to-end view of your environment and has a very good interface for report creation and customization". CA 1 Tape Management is most compared with CA TLMS Tape Management (CA TLMS), CA Allocate DASD Space and Placement, CA Vtape Virtual Tape System (CA Vtape) and IBM Spectrum Control, whereas NetApp OnCommand Insight is most compared with NetApp OnCommand and Dell Storage Resource Manager.

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