IBM Spectrum Virtualize vs. Paragon Hard Disk Manager

IBM Spectrum Virtualize is very suitable for the virtualization part since it is easy to connect the hypervisors with the storage, also for the video surveillance part since it connects with the recording applications easily, it is also easy to create groups of volumes or hosts for the management of many units at the same time.

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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!

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• Provision drives over fiber and/or iSCSI connections
• Perform volume replications between 2 storages efficiently
• The ability to virtualize other storage and make it easy to provision

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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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• Costly but worth every dime in staff hours saved
• Each generation has its limits on Fibre Channel speed it supports and one must upgrade the nodes to get to higher speeds
• User Interface is now light speed ahead of where it started.

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• Sometimes it does not estimate time to completion properly.

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The equipment is easy to configure, implement and manage, it does not require investing a lot of time to manage them since they are very reliable and secure.The equipment is easy to configure, implement and manage, and does not require a lot of time to manage it as it is very reliable and secure.Its components are not easily damaged and any alert that occurs can be quickly corrected without interrupting services.

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

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IBM Spectrum Protect Virtualize beats ALL competition hands down, and one does not need to deal with the complications that are put into some of the Disk Array/ block Storage systems. Excellent Storage management and can see performance of your SAN that goes thru it easily.

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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

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• Positive ROI and saves labor costs of engineers
• Fast to implement
• Worth the cost !!

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