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CA 1 Tape Management vs NetApp OnCommand Insight comparison

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

Categories and Ranking

CA 1 Tape Management
Ranking in Storage Management
7th
Average Rating
9.6
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
NetApp OnCommand Insight
Ranking in Storage Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of CA 1 Tape Management is 5.7%, down from 6.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp OnCommand Insight is 8.6%, up from 6.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Storage Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
NetApp OnCommand Insight8.6%
CA 1 Tape Management5.7%
Other85.7%
Storage Management
 

Featured Reviews

Beyza Aksöz - PeerSpot reviewer
Mainframe System Programmer at Türkiye İş Bankası
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…
Anuj_Jain - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Team Lead at Kyndryl
Gives an end-to-end view of your environment and has a very good interface for report creation and customization
NetApp OnCommand Insight is a pretty good tool, and the only concern I have with it is the price. Its price is quite high and could be improved because the licensing feature of this particular tool is on a per GB basis instead of the price being for the complete tool itself. The more you discover, the more you need to pay, and this makes NetApp OnCommand Insight more costly when compared to other tools which are available in the market. My company doesn't have a cloud environment, so all storage is on-premises. I'm not aware of the integration of NetApp OnCommand Insight with the cloud environment, but the tool fits all the marks in terms of what I require and need. It checks all columns for me, so at the moment, nothing comes to mind in terms of additional features I'd like to see from the tool in the future.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"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."
"To me, the CA 1 tool is the industry standard."
"The tapes are mounted automatically. You can read a tape automatically without waiting for someone to insert it."
"Literally everything about the product is great!"
"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 solution is stable."
"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."
"It's centralized, it's got a lot of data in there, and we can utilize the data that's in there and the output to other systems to run scripts off of it, so it's pretty versatile."
"We didn't have good insight into what our systems were doing until we had that product."
"The Performance Manager: Where we get performance statistics, is about the best method we have right now for monitoring our individual virtual machines."
"The company has saved money by narrowing down issues faster using servers and performance."
"The most valuable feature is definitely the reports, the complete analysis of the data. We also like the scalability, since it can work with Hitachi, Isilon, etc."
"The benefit is that it is not just the storage itself."
"It gives visibility to the VMs."
"Once we gathered and saw what we were doing with everything, we saved close to a petabyte worth of data by being able to delete old data and move stuff around. Thus, we became more efficient."
 

Cons

"Sometimes it does not detect all chaining errors and the reporting on them could be improved as well."
"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."
"Installation and customization could be improved."
"I think one of the weaknesses is pulling in systems outside of virtual environments, of physical hosts, and the like."
"Just make it one product, not in pieces like performance and discovery. Stop having all these individual pieces."
"The initial setup is complex. There is a lot of stuff to set up. I had to teach my guys a lot of things, so there was a lot of learning."
"I think there was an issue with the actual usage of some of the storage, so that could be a little bit more detail we can get in to."
"From 7-Mode to C mode a migration happened and many features, like FTP and SFTP, were dropped. We have been using it, but there needs to be better communication when features are dropped because there are end users using it who might find it a shock: "Oh, why was that dropped?""
"Fairly straightforward, but after that, it's very complex to use and to learn and understand."
"Any increase in loading times, or anything like that, would be useful for us. It's slow, the user interface could be improved a little bit."
"You can build those out, but initially when you bring up the dashboard, that was one thing they couldn't take away. They couldn't change that. It just looks kind of kludgy. I'd like it to look a lot more clean when I first login."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its price could be better."
"We like that it is one license and everything is bundled in together."
"Pricing by terabytes, not the end of the world, and that's okay. Stop if I want this, I have to buy that. Just release it as a single product."
"We just made a major investment back in May of this year, so we'll have it for another four and a half or five years easily. Thus, we have a five year bumper to bumper agreement."
"The company has saved money by narrowing down issues faster using servers and performance."
"The cost: It is expensive as a solution. You need to be an expert to get anything out of it and we don't have that kind of expertise."
"For me, it is always too much. Licensing is on TBs, and I think, nowadays that is outmoded."
"Pricing for NetApp OnCommand Insight could be cheaper. On a scale of one to five, I would rate its price a four."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
12%
Construction Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
10%
Construction Company
17%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Healthcare Company
10%
Marketing Services Firm
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise31
 

Also Known As

BrightStor Tape Management
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Sample Customers

TravelPort, AlphaServe, Rogers Communication
Société Générale, TechnologyOne
Find out what your peers are saying about CA 1 Tape Management vs. NetApp OnCommand Insight and other solutions. Updated: September 2026.
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