We performed a comparison between CA 1 Tape Management, NetApp OnCommand Insight, and SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor 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."
"The solution is stable."
"The tapes are mounted automatically. You can read a tape automatically without waiting for someone to insert it."
"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."
"With this product, it all becomes automatic: locating the data, backing up the data, restoring the data. We can automate all that with it."
"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."
"It's stable and gives good feedback on 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."
"We haven't gone to the extent where we are using the anomaly detection, but from a reporting perspective and single-pane-of-glass perspective, to look at our heterogeneous infrastructure, it is doing a great job."
"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."
"The machine learning features help me troubleshoot faster."
"It gives visibility to the VMs."
"OnCommand Insight's most valuable feature is the ability to see figure applications."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"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."
"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."
"Enhance SNMP monitoring in order to broaden the number of storages that can be discovered."
"I would like them to develop voice commands so that I can say to the product, "Create a volume.""
"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."
"A little bit more from technical support would give us a little bit more insight."
"I would like to see better graphics. We have seen regular graphs and pie graphs. I am sure that there are better ways to show this information."
"The UI: They have been growing and changing. There's been some growing pains with that, but they are moving into the new HTML5 interface, which is fantastic."
"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."
"The solution could always be more easily scalable."
