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CA 1 Tape Management vs Dell VPLEX comparison

Broadcom and Dell Technologies are both solutions in the Storage Management category. Broadcom is ranked #3 with an average rating of 10.0, while Dell Technologies is ranked #5 with an average rating of 7.0. Broadcom holds a 10.5% mindshare in SM, compared to Dell Technologies’s 6.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Dell Technologies users who would recommend it.
CA 1 Tape Management
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100% willing to recommend
Dell VPLEX
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88% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between CA 1 Tape Management and Dell VPLEX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

CA 1 Tape Management
Ranking in Storage Management
3rd
Average Rating
9.6
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Dell VPLEX
Ranking in Storage Management
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of CA 1 Tape Management is 10.5%, up from 7.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dell VPLEX is 6.6%, down from 8.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Beyza Aksöz - PeerSpot reviewer
An easy-to-use solution with good technical support services
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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Sayed Zuber - PeerSpot reviewer
It's an excellent solution for data mobility and disaster recovery, but the CLI can be difficult for beginners
Dell VPLEX currently requires Flash Player to access the GUI. It would be better to have a web-based HTML management interface. The encryption could also be improved. When the host writes data, it goes from VPLEX back to the physical storage. The physical storage device will do encryption or use an algorithm called Data Address Encryption. If there are vulnerabilities between the host and the storage device, you can lose your data. I suggest encrypting the data before it is sent from the host to the storage. I would also recommend using the NVM protocol in VPLEX. It still has Flash Player and a local SATA disk built into the Flash Player. You need to Flash the disk to SAS and then SATA. The NVM protocol is better.
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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The tapes are mounted automatically. You can read a tape automatically without waiting for someone to insert it."
"With this product, it all becomes automatic: locating the data, backing up the data, restoring the data. We can automate all that with it."
"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."
"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."
"The solution is stable."
"Its mirroring capabilities allow for data to be mirrored across two different data centers, so if one center were to crash or fail, the other center could take over and keep everything running smoothly."
"The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."
"Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data."
"Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract."
"The solution works well. It's very reliable."
"The most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."
"Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement."
"The best feature of VPLEX storage is its ability to consolidate storage. It also provides the highest RPO and RTOs for replication technology. VPLEX enables application mobility."
 

Cons

"The product itself is fairly complex so the install is as well."
"The solution's cost needs improvement."
"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."
"VPLEX's engine-based architecture is complex, so the implementation is challenging and takes more time. It's also difficult to fix hardware issues. When an appliance fails, it takes Dell EMC a long time to fix it because spare parts are in short supply."
"Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."
"There can be delays in getting performance reports."
"With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom."
"I would like to have site-to-site replication capability for applications."
"The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors."
"VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption."
"The initial setup is complex."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its price could be better."
"We struck a great deal with Dell EMC, so for us, VPLEX was not very expensive."
"VPLEX is a little bit expensive in my personal opinion."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
34%
Insurance Company
22%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
6%
Computer Software Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Government
13%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about CA 1 Tape Management?
The solution is stable.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CA 1 Tape Management?
The solution's price needs improvement.
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What needs improvement with CA 1 Tape Management?
The solution's pricing could be better.
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What do you like most about Dell VPLEX?
Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell VPLEX?
This is an enterprise solution so licensing costs are generally on the higher side. There will be additional costs if you want to do a network cluster for business servers.
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What needs improvement with Dell VPLEX?
Dell VPLEX should improve its integration and user interface and be easier to configure. Any EMX product, be it PowerMax, VMAX, or DMAX, works based on the CLI. A person has to be very good at runn...
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Overview

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.

Broadcom
Wth EMC VPLEX you can deploy next-generation virtualization architecture to enable simultaneous information access within, between, and across data centers, move applications, virtual machines, and data in and between data centers without impacting users and deliver application and data availability within the data center and over distance with full infrastructure utilization and zero downtime.
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