CA 1 Tape Management Reviews

Name: CA 1 Tape Management
Brand: Broadcom
Rating: 4.8 (6 reviews)

Vendor: Broadcom

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What is CA 1 Tape Management?

CA 1 Tape Management (CA 1) is designed to simplify and unify the management and protection of z/OS tape data sets and volumes. It automates day-to-day z/OS tape management tasks to save your organization time and money. It enables a higher level of integrity for tape data while providing comprehensive protection against the inadvertent destruction of tape files. CA 1 helps you maintain data integrity, providing tools to continually check your data and prevent overwriting. To give you greater control, a Web-based Graphical Management Interface streams detailed tape volume information and provides a common platform for more efficient management practices.

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CA 1 Tape Management is the #5 ranked solution in top Storage Management solutions. PeerSpot users give CA 1 Tape Management an average rating of 9.6 out of 10. CA 1 Tape Management is most commonly compared to IBM Spectrum Control: CA 1 Tape Management vs IBM Spectrum Control. CA 1 Tape Management is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 80% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 33% of all views.

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Mainframe System Programmer at Türkiye İş Bankası

We use the solution to manage virtual tape volumes The solution is easy to use. The solution's pricing could be better. We have been using the solution for eight years. I rate the solution's stability an eight out of ten. We have 20 solution users in our organization. Also, we plan to…

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Randall Brower

Systems Administrator at SunTrust Banks, Inc.

Tape Management is as vital to a shop as anything else. It has more features than I could name, but no other tape product is better. CA 1 Tape is a complete 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. Each of these functions is managed for every tape there is, one being required for the next. Each is a bit more involved than it may seem, but 100% necessary. Beyond these functions, each of them vital, are "fix" types of jobs. These are not a daily thing, but if anything is broken such as pointers, then we would need to get a copy of the pointers and follow them backward and forward to fix it/them. Literally everything about the product is great! Now that I think about it, CA 1 Tape did introduce, in 14.0, a new group of functions in CTS that could be used or not. We do not because we have other things in place. The messages/alerts it can watch for would be handy, we just haven’t set it up.

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it_user814485

Mainframe Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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. It has become easy to locate the data and to secure it. Before we started using CA 1, we used manual tape management. It's a big machine. We would insert the tape manually. After we bought a virtual library, we were able to interface it with this product. It's pretty difficult to configure the interfaces and CA 1. But when it is done, it's very stable, since we don't touch it again. Now that we interface it with this virtual tape, it has become automatic. The tapes are mounted automatically. You can read a tape automatically without waiting for someone to insert it. That has helped us a lot. The manual management of the tape was harder for us because we have a lot of tapes. With the product, it all becomes automatic: locating the data, backing up the data, restoring the data. We can automate all that with the product.

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CA 1 Tape Management mindshare

As of February 2025, the mindshare of CA 1 Tape Management in the Storage Management category stands at 10.7%, up from 6.8% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"The solution is stable."
"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."
"With this product, it all becomes automatic: locating the data, backing up the data, restoring the data. We can automate all that with it."

Room for Improvement

"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."

Pricing

"Its price could be better."

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Financial Services Firm

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Insurance Company

24%

Computer Software Company

13%

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CA 1 Tape Management was previously known as BrightStor Tape Management.

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