IBM Spectrum Virtualize vs. Paragon Hard Disk Manager

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Spectrum Virtualize
Score 10.0 out of 10
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IBM Spectrum Virtualize supports provides data storage security and control across hybrid environments.N/A
Paragon Hard Disk Manager
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Paragon 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
Pricing
IBM Spectrum VirtualizeParagon Hard Disk Manager
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM Spectrum VirtualizeParagon Hard Disk Manager
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
IBM Spectrum VirtualizeParagon Hard Disk Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(2 ratings)
8.5
(5 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Spectrum VirtualizeParagon Hard Disk Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
Saves hours of staff time copying data from one Disk Array/Block Storage to newer system without impacting the servers that are using the SAN. We have virtualized storage like VMware/HyperVee virtualizes servers. Takes the complications out of being a SAN administrator.
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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
IBM
  • 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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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
IBM
  • 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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Paragon Software
  • It can be upgraded to offer cloud storage services.
  • The performance of the current features is stable.
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Usability
IBM
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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Paragon Software
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Support Rating
IBM
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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
IBM
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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Paragon Software
Paragon has much more flexibility to manipulate partitions and clone drives
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • Positively, it has generated good initial sales for us and with proper management, the growth of application operations generates more services to manage.
  • Positively, the growth of the operation has also helped the team to update its capabilities in order to grow.
  • The only possible disadvantage is that since the equipment is very reliable and durable, technological change is not easy to make. Clients prefer to grow the equipment while they can rather than make a complete change, but even so, the time comes when all this produces more services.
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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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