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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.

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

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TravelPort, AlphaServe, Rogers Communication
Ausnet, Qualica, Fidelity National, Telco
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Small Business19%
Midsize Enterprise4%
Large Enterprise77%
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CA 1 Tape Management is ranked 7th in Storage Management with 6 reviews while CA Vtape Virtual Tape System (CA Vtape) is ranked 18th in Storage Management. CA 1 Tape Management is rated 9.6, while CA Vtape Virtual Tape System (CA Vtape) is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of CA 1 Tape Management writes "An easy-to-use solution with good technical support services". On the other hand, CA 1 Tape Management is most compared with CA TLMS Tape Management (CA TLMS), CA Allocate DASD Space and Placement and IBM Spectrum Control, whereas CA Vtape Virtual Tape System (CA Vtape) is most compared with .

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