StorageTek Virtual Storage Review - why 3.4 stars?

StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager Review
ITQlick Score: 54/100
ITQlick Rating:
Pricing: 4.4/10 - average cost
Category: Sales -> StorageTek Virtual Storage review
Ranking:Ranked 105 out of 121 Sales systems
Company: Oracle Corporation
Typical customers: Small, medium and large size businesses
Platforms: Desktop, Cloud
Links: StorageTek Virtual Storage pricing, StorageTek Virtual Storage alternatives
Shlomi LaviShlomi Lavi / updated: Oct 23, 2019

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What is StorageTek Virtual Storage?

StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager is a mainframe virtual tape storage system for businesses of all sizes. The system provides a single point of management for the entire system. It is a product of Oracle Corporation headquartered in California, United States.

Who is it best for?

The software is a useful virtual storage product for all business sizes where centralized management of the system is required. Businesses form all major industries have successfully used the system. These industries include automation, engineering services, banking and finance, business outsourcing, education, manufacturing, automation, and government institutions etc.

Main features and functionalities

Efficient virtual storage management allows the system to significantly increase the amount of data stored one each cartridge. The system adopts a modular approach in order to maintain tape visualization. It offers four main modules of tape libraries, tape drives, virtual take disk buffers, and accompanying software.

The software offers replication channels with a single set of channels communicating with both host and drive.

What is the actual cost?

ITQlick pricing score is 4.4 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). Access ITQlick pricing guide for StorageTek Virtual Storage.

Pros

  • Other than software services of disk buffers, StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager also offers tape libraries for added assistance.
  • The system uses a single set of channels for communicating both host and drive.
  • StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager supports synchronous as well as asynchronous replication.

Cons

  • StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager offers only 2-note clusters compared to higher number on some other alternatives.
  • The system does not offer traditional VTS replication with a disk cache.

How it stacks up?

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Is it the best Sales system?

StorageTek Virtual Storage is ranked 105 out of 121 software in their category (Sales systems).

How they are rated on ITQlick?

The rating of StorageTek Virtual Storage is 3.4 stars out of 5 and the total score is 54 out of 100. The rating score is based on our unbiased data-based algo. Learn more - rating methodology page.

Is it an easy to use Software?

Yes, StorageTek Virtual Storage makes it fairly easy to use. This product is user friendly and intuitive.

Is it cloud-based?

Yes, they offer cloud based hosting, which means IT resources are retrieved through web-based tools and applications and you don't need to buy servers and additional hardware equipment.

Can it be used on mobile?

No, currently StorageTek Virtual Storage can't be accessed on mobile, you would need to access it from your computer.

Differences between StorageTek Virtual Storage and alternatives?

The most popular alternatives to StorageTek Virtual Storage in 2023: Powerdialer, Xactly Express, Satori, Sofon Sales Configurator, Daylite. Access the complete competitors analysis here - StorageTek Virtual Storage VS Sales Software alternatives.

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