CA Allocate DASD Space and Placement vs Coraid EtherCloud comparison

CA Allocate DASD Space and Placement (CA Allocate) enables more efficient use of DASD by enforcing allocation policies and procedures and redirecting inaccurate allocations for proper grouping, optimum space or best-fit usage.
In addition, X-37 resolution can prevent application failures to help save your enterprise time, resources and money. CA Allocate can help your enterprise maximize tape and DASD usage and optimize tape management resources with dynamic storage management for new allocations, and flexible, user-defined rules for allocation management.

Coraid EtherCloud makes every aspect of storage management and control programmable via REST API. Using the API, cloud administrators can easily automate workflows related to storage provisioning and management, and integrate the management of storage with the rest of the infrastructure.

EtherCloud has a powerful policy engine that allows storage to be dynamically allocated and managed according to application requirements and business policies with end-to-end visibility and control. This allows IT administrators to reduce infrastructure-provisioning times from days to minutes.

EtherCloud allows application owners to deploy storage with one-click provisioning in a multi-tenant environment without having to deal with the complexity of underlying storage operations.