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BrightStor DASD Space and Placement
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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.

The storage monitoring and capacity management software from SolarWinds gives you deep visibility into the performance of your multi-vendor storage arrays, and helps you closely watch the application stack for storage issues that affect application performance.

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CA Allocate DASD Space and Placement is ranked 14th in Storage Management while SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor is ranked 11th in Storage Management with 2 reviews. CA Allocate DASD Space and Placement is rated 6.0, while SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor is rated 8.0. 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, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor writes "Provides a visual representation and drill down into your environment". CA Allocate DASD Space and Placement is most compared with CA 1 Tape Management, whereas SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor is most compared with Veritas NetBackup and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain).

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