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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure StorSimple

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AStorSimple was acquired by Microsoft in 2012. The StorSimple storage gateway appliance is now a part of Microsoft's Azure StorSimple Hybrid Cloud Storage solution.

    $4.11

    Per Day

    Precisely Assure MIMIX

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AAssure MIMIX from Precisely (formerly Syncsort) offers IBM i high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) for companies worldwide, from small businesses to global enterprises, who can use Assure MIMIX to prevent data loss and eliminate planned and unplanned downtime. Assure MIMIX provides scalable real-time replication with options for automating administration, monitoring and alerting, customizable switch automation, and a graphical…N/A
    Pricing
    Azure StorSimplePrecisely Assure MIMIX
    Editions & Modules
    Virtual Appliance
    $4.11
    Per Day
    Cloud Array
    $4.11
    Per Day
    Physical Appliance
    $43.84
    Per Day
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure StorSimplePrecisely Assure MIMIX
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Azure StorSimplePrecisely Assure MIMIX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Availability
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Azure StorSimplePrecisely Assure MIMIX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Onsite storage needs and backing up to Azure.
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    Precisely
    MIMIX is clearly the best IBMi solution for most high availability and disaster recovery situations. It provides rock-solid replication and agile ability to switch quickly. In its earlier days, some organizations used it as a primary daily system backup method. With the advent of Ransomware, this is no longer advisable. The strength of MIMIX real-time replication becomes a weakness if IBMi data becomes infected. As in any real-time replication product, at that point, two systems are infected.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Performance via the SSD drives.
    • Writes back to our Private Cloud via Azure.
    • Easy to Admin via Web client interface.
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    Precisely
    • Redundancy - needs to be available at a moment's notice.
    • Protection - the business would be greatly impacted, therefore protection of production systems is key to the business succeeding.
    • Usability - needs to be user-friendly, easy to navigate and operate, as it will be required at any given time.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Additional fail-over functionality
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    Precisely
    • Possible false sense of security for ransomware attacks.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    If I wanted to use just onsite storage the StorSimple device is already paid for.
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    Precisely
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
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    Precisely
    MIMIX is software built for availability. By its nature it is must be available. As long as the underlying system and communication network are available MIMIX is working. And if there are failures in either of those, MIMIX is designed to allow for a quick and resilient recovery once underly systems or communications are restored
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    Performance
    Microsoft
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    Precisely
    I have never seen MIMIX itself be a performance bottleneck. However it is important to consider the network in overall performance of any remotely replicated systems. MIMIX can only replicate as fast as the network allows. But a strong capability of MIMIX is its ability to "buffer" its replication, so it can be sent without error as the network allows
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Precisely
    Support is available and efficient. Response time is good and likelyhood of a quick resolutiion is high. However the mature solid product and proactive management tools, fortunately make support requirements relatively rare. The support for version upgrades is also strong, but again the basic upgrade process is usually straightforward and well documented.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Easy to use and highly compatible with our MSFT Hyper-V environment
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    Precisely
    We used MIMIX for its role for iSeries high availability. We used Double Take by Vision Solutions for our production Windows environment. MIMIX is designed for iSeries, and Double Take was designed for Windows. We had VMware virtual environment, running multiple VMs for production ERP Lawson M3, now Infor. Both MIMIX and Double Take played the role well for what needed to be done. Without either MIMIX or DoubleTake, the business would have been impacted.
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Precisely
    MIMIX works to its intended functionality. It provides real time data replication across multiple partitions and systems as defined. I have never witnessed any problems with MIMIX in scaling to larger systems or adding new data groups. In conjunction with the inherent scalability of IBMi scalability and configuration flexibillity are rather quick and easy.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Great Folks on the MSFT Implementation team
    • Great value on year 2
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    Precisely
    • MIMIX had a positive impact, as the organization has had to rely upon the unplanned switch.
    • MIMIX definite must if organization is running i Series, and business needs are 24/7.
    • Without MIMIX in place, the downtime impact to the business would have been great.
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