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Storage Management
April 2024
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We performed a comparison between CA Allocate DASD Space and Placement and IBM Spectrum Discover based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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It's a space recovery product that helps us fix problems before they happen so we work on them after running a job,...
One of the biggest benefits of CA Allocate is in the cost. We initially went with BMC MainView, which is a great product and a little more user... Read more →
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Overview

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.

IBM Spectrum Discover is modern metadata management software that provides data insight for petabyte-scale unstructured storage. The software easily connects to IBM Cloud Object Storage and IBM Spectrum Scale to rapidly ingest, consolidate and index metadata for billions of files and objects. It provides a rich metadata layer that enables storage administrators, data stewards and data scientists to efficiently manage, classify and gain insights from massive amounts of unstructured data. It improves storage economics, helps mitigate risk and accelerates large-scale analytics to create competitive advantage and speed critical research.

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CA Allocate DASD Space and Placement is ranked 14th in Storage Management while IBM Spectrum Discover is ranked 15th in Storage Management. CA Allocate DASD Space and Placement is rated 6.0, while IBM Spectrum Discover is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of CA Allocate DASD Space and Placement writes "It's a space recovery product that helps us fix problems before they happen so we work on them after running a job, but I don't want to have to touch a file to make changes or updates". On the other hand, CA Allocate DASD Space and Placement is most compared with CA 1 Tape Management, whereas IBM Spectrum Discover is most compared with .

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