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Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) vs. Paragon Hard Disk Manager

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    Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AHitachi Vantara offers the Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) as a virtualization management solution.N/A

    Paragon Hard Disk Manager

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AParagon Software headquartered in Irvine offers Paragon Hard Disk Manager, a storage management solution for physical and virtual drives, and disaster recovery framework solution for businesses of all sizes.N/A
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    Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)Paragon Hard Disk Manager
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    User Ratings
    Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)Paragon Hard Disk Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
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    8.5
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    User Testimonials
    Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)Paragon Hard Disk Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Hitachi Vantara
    Hitachi SVOS is well suited for all environment in todays world. Storage plays a pivot role in all services provided in the current digital age. The Hitachi SVOS along with their blade proides magnificient perfromance boost which is not comparable to any vendors. Companies which has a huge database should consider this an option to evaluate. In addition orgnization who has a highly virtualized enviroment could also look at this product during their evaluation stage. This product is less benfit due to its cost in an environment where they have more number of physical servers as there are other solution which can be leveraged at a lower costs as they would not be utilizing the full feature set provided by the appliance
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    Paragon Software
    Paragon Hard Disk Manager is suitable for use by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The graphical user interface helps to make the software easy to use, even by those with limited computer/technical knowledge and skills. The software will likely meet most, if not all, of the backup requirements of SMEs.
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    Pros
    Hitachi Vantara
    • Scaling Flexibility
    • Supporting Hybrid/Cloud environments
    • Improving cost efficiency
    • Simplifying storage management
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    Paragon Software
    • Disk wiping - quick and effective solution for simple wipe processes
    • Partitioning - the software allowed us to work more closely with the partitions in a GUI environment
    • Data Migrations - Paragon Hard Disk Manager made this process of data migration very easy and convenient
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    Cons
    Hitachi Vantara
    • Cost is too high
    • Documentation quality needs to be improved a lot. It is missing details currenty
    • Organize all the documents and tools related info in easy to read and understand manner
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    Paragon Software
    • It can be upgraded to offer cloud storage services.
    • The performance of the current features is stable.
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    Usability
    Hitachi Vantara
    It combines with enterprise level storages very well. Due to its high reliability & uptime, it is valued greatly by such institutes. Secondly, it's advanced virtualization reduces the complexity & cost, which in turn results in maximizing hardware utilization. Performance efficiency is amazing even under heavy workloads. Built-in cache optimization and automated tiering help ensure efficient data placement.
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    Paragon Software
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    Paragon Software
    I've never had to contact Paragon support which speaks to the quality of their product.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Hitachi Vantara
    There is definitely no comparison to any of the products when comparing to Hitachi SVOS. I beleieve this is the only unique product which can leverage older storage systems. Dell Avamar can be a great product if you are considering DR replication alone. The DR replication ratio is quite high in Dell avamar. However given that the current bandwidth available outweights this benefit
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    Paragon Software
    Paragon has much more flexibility to manipulate partitions and clone drives
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    Return on Investment
    Hitachi Vantara
    • Cost had bit of negative impact
    • Due to stable OS and live migrations support it has allowed us to dynamically tune the capacity of our test clusters leading to better COGS for our business
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    Paragon Software
    • Paragon Hard Disk Manager makes creating regular incremental backups straightforward. The ease of configuring the software to automatically perform backup jobs increases the likelihood that we will follow through with our backup strategy, thus protecting our data.
    • Any loss of important data would potentially be catastrophic to our business. Paragon Hard Disk Manager minimizes this risk.
    • The software's ease of use also means we can focus more on our core business activities (and spend less time and effort on data backups).
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