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CA 1 Tape Management vs IBM Spectrum Control comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

CA 1 Tape Management
Ranking in Storage Management
4th
Average Rating
9.6
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM Spectrum Control
Ranking in Storage Management
5th
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of CA 1 Tape Management is 9.8%, up from 7.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Spectrum Control is 7.9%, down from 8.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Storage Management
 

Featured Reviews

Beyza Aksöz - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 16, 2023
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…
Aamir Jameel - PeerSpot reviewer
May 27, 2022
Scalable but not user-friendly
Spectrum Control could be more user-friendly. IBM also needs to provide proper training to handle Spectrum Control because it's a complicated solution I've been using Spectrum Control for almost three years. Spectrum Control's stability is fine.  Spectrum Control's scalability is fine - we can…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use. The ability to get into a storage device and look at whatever you are trying to look at as far as performance, then obtain the reports that you need to do your analytical work."
"The granularity of this solution has been most useful. Customers can click on a single item and get the information only for the single item they choose."
"In my opinion, it's the best monitoring and report creation tool for IBM storage devices. You can do a lot of performance stats and reports with very nice tools for IBM storage devices."
"Technical support is quite responsive and helpful."
"The installation was very easy. You just install an agent on a server, and you give that agent access to your storage device, then it just collects the data. It took five minutes to set up."
"Spectrum Control is highly secure and competitively priced."
"Spectrum Control's scalability is fine - we can extend it for the backup requirement."
"The benefits would be mostly the ability to diagnose a problem."
 

Cons

"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."
"The product itself is fairly complex so the install is as well."
"The solution must support multi-vendor storage."
"If we were to add VM level performance being able to monitor VMs on a VM level, then that would be good."
"The initial setup for IBM Spectrum Control is a bit complicated. They should also make it easier to integrate and use the Cosmos Analytics tool, which is very complicated."
"The pain points were, and may still continue to be, the fact that there are multiple components of the product which are installed, you might say, somewhat individually."
"Spectrum Control could be more user-friendly."
"I would like to see is more information regarding the copy groups (the replication)."
"The database could be improved so that the complexity of installation could be easier. We would also like to have more granularity in the profiles and products for users. We would like to link the users to the tool to managers or auditors."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its price could be better."
"The solution is reasonably priced."
"We were already licensing Spectrum Control. This was one reasons why we went to Control rather than using the other product."
"It is pay for the amount of storage that you are monitoring. The more that we use the tool and like the tool, we may want to extend it to other storage platforms. This is just a matter of cost."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
28%
Insurance Company
24%
Computer Software Company
12%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
21%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Computer Software Company
13%
University
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

 

Also Known As

BrightStor Tape Management
Spectrum Control
 

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Sample Customers

TravelPort, AlphaServe, Rogers Communication
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