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CA 1 Tape Management vs NetApp OnCommand Insight comparison

Broadcom and NetApp are both solutions in the Storage Management category. Broadcom is ranked #3 with an average rating of 10.0, while NetApp is ranked #8. Broadcom holds a 9.7% mindshare in SM, compared to NetApp’s 6.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of NetApp users who would recommend it.
CA 1 Tape Management
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100% willing to recommend
NetApp OnCommand Insight
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92% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between CA 1 Tape Management and NetApp OnCommand Insight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

CA 1 Tape Management
Ranking in Storage Management
3rd
Average Rating
9.6
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
NetApp OnCommand Insight
Ranking in Storage Management
8th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of CA 1 Tape Management is 9.7%, up from 7.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp OnCommand Insight is 6.2%, down from 7.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Beyza Aksöz - PeerSpot reviewer
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…
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Anuj_Jain - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"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."
"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 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."
"OnCommand Insight's most valuable feature is the ability to see figure applications."
"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."
"I am very happy with the stability. When your customers don't notice anything wrong, that's the biggest win for a product."
"This gives me better performance numbers and gives me more information about where my loopholes are, where I need to target my customers, where I need to go back and retain storage."
"Scalability: If you're from a large enterprise, it's easy for us to go into customer environments and pull the data out. It's very security-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is the security. When we identify a vulnerability, it is easy to mitigate it. NetApp provides the solution. It's also easy to create and move volumes."
"It gives us the ability to look at our storage and figure out what we are doing with it. Without it, we are sort of blind."
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Cons

"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."
"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."
"Enhance SNMP monitoring in order to broaden the number of storages that can be discovered."
"It's the interop matrix. And if there was a chance to orchestrate on a heterogeneous structure using OCI, that would be a great start; or at least a plugin to each one of them, that would be a great start too."
"A little bit more from technical support would give us a little bit more insight."
"OnCommand Insight lacks AI to protect against ransomware and identify users accessing things abnormally."
"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'd like it to be more stable, simpler, and get Java out of it."
"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?""
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its price could be better."
"Pricing for NetApp OnCommand Insight could be cheaper. On a scale of one to five, I would rate its price a four."
"We like that it is one license and everything is bundled in together."
"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."
"For me, it is always too much. Licensing is on TBs, and I think, nowadays that is outmoded."
"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."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
34%
Insurance Company
22%
Computer Software Company
12%
Government
6%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Government
12%
 

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about CA 1 Tape Management?
The solution is stable.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CA 1 Tape Management?
The solution's price needs improvement.
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The solution's pricing could be better.
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Also Known As

BrightStor Tape Management
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Overview

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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NetApp OnCommand Insight management software delivers consistent insight across your data center so you can monitor and manage your hybrid IT multivendor storage, compute, and switching infrastructures.

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Sample Customers

TravelPort, AlphaServe, Rogers Communication
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