CA Vtape Virtual Tape System (CA Vtape) vs SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor comparison

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We performed a comparison between CA Vtape Virtual Tape System (CA Vtape) and SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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out of 27 in Storage Management
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out of 27 in Storage Management
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CA Vtape Virtual Tape System (CA Vtape) is a completely software-based virtual tape system designed to help you improve tape utilization and processing performance.
It redirects tape mounts to direct access storage device (DASD) virtual volumes to accommodate instantaneous mounts and instant recalls from DASD.

Using existing tape and mainframe hardware, CA Vtape can maximize your current capital investments while eliminating or defraying further hardware purchases. This mainframe solution can help reduce bottlenecks in your enterprise, decrease floor space requirements and increase processing performance with:

Real-time tape monitoring
IBM System z® Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) virtualization and compression processing

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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Midsize Enterprise77%
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CA Vtape Virtual Tape System (CA Vtape) is ranked 18th in Storage Management while SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor is ranked 11th in Storage Management with 2 reviews. CA Vtape Virtual Tape System (CA Vtape) is rated 0.0, while SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor is rated 8.0. On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor writes "Provides a visual representation and drill down into your environment". CA Vtape Virtual Tape System (CA Vtape) 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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