We performed a comparison between CA 1 Tape Management and IBM Spectrum Control based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Dell Technologies, NetApp and others in Storage Management."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."
"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 solution is stable."
"With this product, it all becomes automatic: locating the data, backing up the data, restoring the data. We can automate all that with it."
"The tapes are mounted automatically. You can read a tape automatically without waiting for someone to insert it."
"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."
"The benefits would be mostly the ability to diagnose a problem."
"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."
"Technical support is quite responsive and helpful."
"Spectrum Control's scalability is fine - we can extend it for the backup requirement."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The solution's cost needs improvement."
"The solution must support multi-vendor storage."
"I would like to see is more information regarding the copy groups (the replication)."
"Spectrum Control could be more user-friendly."
"If we were to add VM level performance being able to monitor VMs on a VM level, then that would be good."
"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."
"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."
"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."
CA 1 Tape Management is ranked 7th in Storage Management with 6 reviews while IBM Spectrum Control is ranked 1st in Storage Management with 8 reviews. CA 1 Tape Management is rated 9.6, while IBM Spectrum Control is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of CA 1 Tape Management writes "An easy-to-use solution with good technical support services". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Control writes "Scalable but not user-friendly". CA 1 Tape Management is most compared with CA TLMS Tape Management (CA TLMS), CA Allocate DASD Space and Placement and CA Vtape Virtual Tape System (CA Vtape), whereas IBM Spectrum Control is most compared with IBM Storage Insights.
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