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CA 1 Tape Management vs Dell VPLEX comparison

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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
Dell VPLEX
Ranking in Storage Management
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Storage Management category, the mindshare of CA 1 Tape Management is 5.6%, down from 6.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dell VPLEX is 7.4%, up from 5.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Storage Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Dell VPLEX7.4%
CA 1 Tape Management5.6%
Other87.0%
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…
Sayed Zuber - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Storage And Backup Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
It's an excellent solution for data mobility and disaster recovery, but the CLI can be difficult for beginners
Dell VPLEX currently requires Flash Player to access the GUI. It would be better to have a web-based HTML management interface. The encryption could also be improved. When the host writes data, it goes from VPLEX back to the physical storage. The physical storage device will do encryption or use an algorithm called Data Address Encryption. If there are vulnerabilities between the host and the storage device, you can lose your data. I suggest encrypting the data before it is sent from the host to the storage. I would also recommend using the NVM protocol in VPLEX. It still has Flash Player and a local SATA disk built into the Flash Player. You need to Flash the disk to SAS and then SATA. The NVM protocol is better.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Literally everything about the product is great!"
"To me, the CA 1 tool is the industry standard."
"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."
"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."
"CA 1 is our intake management system, and it's just one of the best products out there."
"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."
"With the help of EMC VPLEX we simplified the architecture and improved the response time."
"It’s a great product; very reliable."
"The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."
"Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement."
"With VPLEX, we are able to automate this process where failovers between sites now occur automatically."
"Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data."
"The best part of the solution is the virtualization layer due to the fact that, for all our pain points during migration, we use the virtualization with VPLEX."
"Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract."
 

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."
"Sometimes it does not detect all chaining errors and the reporting on them could be improved as well."
"Installation and customization could be improved."
"Due to the bug with Broadcom, we have had a massive crisis on VPLEX. This little bug has caused roughly one thousand machines to go down."
"There can be delays in getting performance reports."
"The solution is expensive and requires more budget, so people in the SMB segment do not prefer it."
"The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors."
"I would like to have site-to-site replication capability for applications."
"We experienced increases in latency in accesses to disks and some bugs on engines."
"VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."
"Much room for improvement exists."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its price could be better."
"VPLEX is a little bit expensive in my personal opinion."
"We struck a great deal with Dell EMC, so for us, VPLEX was not very expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Construction Company
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Construction Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Healthcare Company
8%
 

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Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise12
 

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What needs improvement with Dell VPLEX?
Some of the products are very easy to implement, while others are more difficult, and our team seeks support help when required. Regarding the integration part, the delivery team handles all integr...
What is your primary use case for Dell VPLEX?
We are implementing Cohesity, Hitachi, Dell, and Nutanix, VMware, vSAN; multiple products. We have recently started working with Cohesity because there was not much presence in India for Cohesity, ...
What advice do you have for others considering Dell VPLEX?
Hitachi Systems Microclinic has been renamed to Hitachi Systems India Private Limited. The email address has been changed to shailendra.chaudhry.hd at hitachi-systems.com from shailendra_singh.chau...
 

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TravelPort, AlphaServe, Rogers Communication
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