CA 1 Tape Management Reviews

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

Vendor: Broadcom

4.8 out of 5

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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 #2 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 83% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 28% of all views.

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May 2025

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Beyza Aksöz

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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it_user2991

z/OS system Programmer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We move tapes to a second location on a daily basis. The Vault Management function keeps track of where a tape should be and tells the operators which tapes should be sent offsite, and which ones should return Tape management, Vault management Installation and customization could be improved.…

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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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CA 1 Tape Management mindshare

As of June 2025, the mindshare of CA 1 Tape Management in the Storage Management category stands at 9.7%, up from 7.3% 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

28%

Insurance Company

22%

Computer Software Company

15%

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Government

Comms Service Provider

Real Estate/Law Firm

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Healthcare Company

Media Company

Aerospace/Defense Firm

Hospitality Company

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Energy/Utilities Company

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

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TravelPort, AlphaServe, Rogers Communication

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