Cove Data Protection vs. Paragon Hard Disk Manager

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cove Data Protection
Score 9.7 out of 10
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Cove Data Protection (formerly N-Able Backup) is designed to cover servers, datacenters, applications, and workstations, and is provided to ensure business continuity and at-a-glance assessment and fast issue resolution via customizable dashboard.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
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cove Data ProtectionParagon Hard Disk Manager
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsCove offers one flat rate per server or workstation and one flat per-user price for Microsoft 365, with cloud storage included. Each license carries a defined amount of included storage that is pooled across an MSPs customers, so smaller devices that use less can offset larger ones.
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Features
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Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Cove Data Protection
9.4
19 Ratings
11% above category average
Paragon Hard Disk Manager
-
Ratings
Universal recovery8.616 Ratings00 Ratings
Instant recovery9.515 Ratings00 Ratings
Recovery verification9.517 Ratings00 Ratings
Business application protection9.016 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations8.717 Ratings00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification9.717 Ratings00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud10.018 Ratings00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression9.918 Ratings00 Ratings
Snapshots10.012 Ratings00 Ratings
Flexible deployment9.017 Ratings00 Ratings
Management dashboard9.519 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform support8.918 Ratings00 Ratings
Retention options9.919 Ratings00 Ratings
Encryption9.818 Ratings00 Ratings
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Cove Data ProtectionParagon Hard Disk Manager
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Score 9.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
Cove Data ProtectionParagon Hard Disk Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
(19 ratings)
8.5
(5 ratings)
Usability
9.7
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.8
(4 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cove Data ProtectionParagon Hard Disk Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
N-able
Solarwinds Backup is ideal for individuals looking to keep a consistent backup of devices in their environment. We used it primarily for networking equipment. It is easy to set up, as it is one of the steps available when adding a new device to solarwinds. It is probably not an ideal product to use for long-term (1 month+) backups.
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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
N-able
  • Backup Reporting: Email alerts, and a great, easy to read Dashboard with detailed error logs and an easy to search Solarwinds FAQ for a lot of them.
  • Restores: So far I have restored files, full VMs, and VMs to other hardware, and so far it has not only been flawless, but so flexible that I can't imagine going back to any other software.
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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
N-able
  • Restore complete settings: IP settings, the setting of CPU/Memory for VMs, etc. would decrease management during a restore.
  • Individual file backup: more granular settings for backup.
  • Change of device name after setup: at times, computer names change after restore so it would be great to rename the device name.
  • Option to recovery security key.
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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
N-able
Cove Data Protection is very usable as it's easy to tell that it is made to not only do backup very well, but it's also easy to deploy. The agent-based deployment allows for flexible deployment options while ensuring a minimal amount of manual work is needed on the dashboard end. Recovery is also very easy, especially as it relates to one-off file recovery
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Paragon Software
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Support Rating
N-able
We have an Italian support partner, they are been very good b7y the first moment.
All the partners are followed with a lot of attention, even the little ones.
there is a site where you can learn everything, the single parts of the product are described perfectly.
Every it specialist should evaluate it.
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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
N-able
Cove is able to cover all aspects of backup in a single package. From the same dashboard I can check servers, workstations, and even Office 365. Cove is a much better solution in terms of overall management for a company such as ours. It also provides integration options with N-Able's RMM and Take Control solutions. This allows us to offer our customers with a full service suite in a single package.
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Paragon Software
Paragon has much more flexibility to manipulate partitions and clone drives
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Return on Investment
N-able
  • There has been NO negative impact to out ROI, but it definitely helps our bottom line. Affordable pricing and solid support make Solarwinds Backup almost a no brainer. That interprets to a growing ROI.
  • The best thing to happen to our ROI is the growth brought in by very happy clients.
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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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