Foglight vs. Paragon Hard Disk Manager

It really depends on why my colleague is evaluating Foglight. If it is for Database monitoring and management, I highly recommend it. If it is for anything else, I would encourage them to look at others in this space.

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Paragon Hard Disk Manager is a solution that makes working directly with hard drives a breeze. It is suited for entry level users through to experienced techs and covers most scenarios you can throw at it!

Incentivized

• VMWare Monitoring
• Custom use of scripts and dashboard
• Performance Analysis for Database
• Remote Monitoring for Linux and Windows.

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• When you have a hard drive that is physically failing with CHKDSK errors, it will often somehow still clone it and make it work on the new system.
• It can take a computer's operating system installation and make it work on dissimilar hardware.

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• Foglight allows detecting and diagnosing performance problems simplifying hybrid environments, it is a solution that has perfect features which work in a flexible and intuitive way, it allows database performance in a safe and fast way. It works perfectly with nothing else to add.

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• Sometimes it does not estimate time to completion properly.

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I've never had to contact Paragon support which speaks to the quality of their product.

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Foglight was chosen years ago as a replacement for Groundwork. After 2.5 years of implementing Groundwork things were still not complete and the decision to go with a more formalized solution was made. Foglight installed easily and quickly nearly across the board and the full implementation for complex infrastructure was completed (with no Professional Services) by us in under 4 months. Nagios is a wonderful toolkit but you have to be ready to build what you need. It's flexibility and breadth are excellent features but with that comes the need to define things very tightly lest you embark on the project that never ends (see above about Groundwork). Dynatrace is an excellent APM tool and has advanced analytics but as a general infrastructure monitoring tool it is actually very expensive and to be honest does not have the same focus and full feature set that it does on it's APM (which to be fair is it's wheelhouse). vROPs (we also have) is a wonderful tool but focused (and rightly so) on satisfying the VMware engineers in the crowd and doesn't put itself out there too far to make things palatable for the non-engineering crowd.

Incentivized

Google Backup and SYNC required a stable and fast internet connection, and the amount of data we could back up was limited. We use Paragon Hard Disk Manager to back up data to a NAS device - this method does not require an internet connection and the data we can back up is unlimited. Furthermore, we have greater control over our data

Incentivized

• Positive - near instant alerts help combat potential problems quickly
• Positive - minimizes business interruption
• Positive - limits disruptions to productivity

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• It has contributed to positive Return on Investment.
• It has catered for all our organization storage needs.