We performed a comparison between CA 1 Tape Management and NetApp OnCommand Insight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, IBM, NetApp and others in Storage Management."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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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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