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    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

    Unitrends

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AThe Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliances are hardware developed for data backup and management. They cover enterprise backup, ransomware detection, recovery assurance, proactive monitoring, and cloud continuity into a single platform for organizations of all sizes.N/A
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
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    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Precisely Assure MIMIX and Unitrends
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    Ratings
    Unitrends
    7.5
    360 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Universal recovery00 Ratings6.8302 Ratings
    Instant recovery00 Ratings8.7290 Ratings
    Recovery verification00 Ratings7.3288 Ratings
    Business application protection00 Ratings6.5262 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings8.0268 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification00 Ratings8.3338 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud00 Ratings6.5213 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings8.0326 Ratings
    Snapshots00 Ratings7.3243 Ratings
    Flexible deployment00 Ratings7.37 Ratings
    Management dashboard00 Ratings6.17 Ratings
    Platform support00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Retention options00 Ratings7.57 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings8.36 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Precisely Assure MIMIXUnitrends
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    10.0
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    8.0
    (372 ratings)
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    8.9
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    8.3
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    Availability
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    Performance
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    Support Rating
    9.0
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    7.9
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    Online Training
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    8.7
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    Configurability
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    7.1
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    5.0
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    Product Scalability
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    We have a traditional stack and pretty typical needs as a manufacturer. I have used and evaluated everything out there, but the Unitrends solution fits very well and was competitively priced. I would think if it fits us, it could fit anyone like us with a similar stack.
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    Pros
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    • 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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    Kaseya
    • It has fully automated and customizable dashboards that can run with less administrative attention.
    • It should be able to run on virtual machines or be deployed as a virtual machine within MS Azure or AWS.
    • It's AI-based ransomware detection helps to understand data characteristics and alerts for ransomware attacks.
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    Cons
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    • Possible false sense of security for ransomware attacks.
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    Kaseya
    • Errors on backup jobs could be more clearly explained. As the administrator of the device for my company, I often don't know what caused an error, and can't tell from the error information what happened or caused the error.
    • Updates of the devices should have an automatic option. It takes to much time to do an update to the devices if updates haven't been maintained.
    • Shutdown and restarting the device should be available from the main UI screen to eliminate some time when doing updates or if you're doing some maintenance on the device.
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    Kaseya
    We have grown very attached to the Unitrends appliances and their use for recovery and other file restoration needs as well as data archival, data replication to other appliance and data migration to other servers or long term storage requirements. The appliances work well and the support for them is very good as well.
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    Usability
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    Kaseya
    I have never used such an easy product that is stable and scalable like Unitrends. I have been running backups for MANY years. On premise, tape, disk, cloud, you name it. Unitrends is very flexible, stable and has incredible reporting features. It's nice when management requests a report and it takes you 5 minutes to run it and dump it to PDF. How can you beat that?
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    Reliability and Availability
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    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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    Kaseya
    The appliances have been there when we need them and have rarely if ever gone down. Hardware issues have been resolved quickly.
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    Performance
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    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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    Kaseya
    The hardware is adequate and speedy. The user interface responds quickly. Backups complete quickly.
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    Support Rating
    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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    Kaseya
    They're incredible, attentive, thorough. They make sure my issue is resolved and follow up. I'm usually behind on giving them a reply or an update. They have always gone above and beyond for me, and I'll continue to do the same for them.
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    Online Training
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    Kaseya
    It was sufficient to get started. It was not super deep. We called support often to get going.
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    Implementation Rating
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    Kaseya
    The Unitrends employees involved in the installation were very friendly and knowledgeable. A certain degree of hiccups can be expected during any installation but never shook my confidence because of the friendly and knowledgeable team that was assigned to my project.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Kaseya
    Symantec Backup Exec was the primary tool used for backups for years. We also used Veeam for some Office 365/Exchange backups. Unitrends once configured and set up works very well against the competition. Backup Exec interface was more user friendly. The search tool for exploring backups was much better than Unitrends as well. Unitrends is much faster if you need to restore an entire VM or large file folders. Also once you have Unitrends all set up, it is very low maintenance, it just works. If something fails 9/10 it will correct itself on the next backup that is scheduled to run
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    Scalability
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    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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    Kaseya
    Once you exceed the capacity of the appliances, you have to forklift a new appliance. This is very expensive.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Kaseya
    • It has saved some deleted file server data for our business department.
    • We have lost some reports for the business department due to an overlooked setting that make the backup reports look great, but the server was not being backed up in reality.
    • Less anxiety for the IT department, we have backup plan and that is worth a lot to us.
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