Author: Ksenia Schevjeva

Paragon Software partners with Idealstore to deliver an unparalleled level of protection and backup portability for Windows servers, virtual machines, databases and desktops

Idealstor, a leading manufacturer of removable disk-to-disk backup solutions, now offering Drive Backup Server software from backup and recovery publisher Paragon Software Group as an integrated component of all of their backup systems.

Combining the best attributes of Idealstor and Paragon, this new offering promises to deliver an unparalleled level of protection and backup portability for Windows servers, virtual machines, databases and desktops.

With the addition of Drive Backup Server from Paragon Software Group, Idealstor is now able to offer a revolutionary hardware solution that lets you fully recover your servers or virtual machines anytime, anywhere. Drive Backup Server from Paragon Software utilizes sector-based backups, giving server administrators the ability to image an entire server including files, data and applications. When the backup is complete, Paragon lets you dial in the level of recovery you need including file-based recovery, bare metal system restore and even individual email recovery for Microsoft Exchange.

“We are happy to welcome Idealstor as our newest partner,” said Tom Fedro, president of Paragon Software Group. “Idealstor hardware paired with our Drive Backup Server software provides a complete turnkey solution for customers.”

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Paragon Software and Insight Integrated Systems partner to bring a solution to companies suffering from storage perfomance issue due to partition misalignment

Paragon Alignment Tool Optimizes Systems by Aligning Affected Drives after Transition from 512-Byte to 4K-Byte Sector Partitions

Paragon Software has partnered with Insight Integrated Systems (IIS), a division of Insight Investments LLC, the industry expert in technology solutions and financing options, to provide the Paragon Alignment Tool (PAT) to companies suffering from disk drive partition misalignment. Insight Integrated Systems will also offer Paragon’s popular Hard Disk Manager (HDM) 11 Server for disaster recovery and as a cost-effective tool for system migration and virtualization projects.

With the transition from the 512-byte to the 4k-byte sector storage standard, many drives are experiencing performance degradation between 20 and 40 percent due to partition misalignment. Misalignment can appear under a number of different scenarios. For companies utilizing virtual environments, performance problems are amplified.

“As a leading IT services companies in the U.S., we are in the trenches working side-by-side with our clients and as a result, we are at the forefront for offering only the best software solutions for our customers,” said Rob Flannery, SVP of National Sales “We decided to partner with Paragon because we found their service and products to be top-notch and at an attractive price for our clients.”

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CES 2012 Flash: Incompatibility between digital multimedia devices is eliminated with Paragon’s UFSD Cross-Platform Technology

Paragon Software to Demo UFSD Cross-Platform Technology for Consumer Electronics Market Needs at Showstoppers @ CES 2012

Paragon Software showcases its Universal File System Driver (UFSD) – a cross-platform software tool providing full support for exFAT file systems in all types of consumer electronics devices, regardless of the platform on which they are running, at ShowStoppers @ CES 2012. Paragon’s UFSD technology solves incompatibility issues between NTFS, HFS+, and exFAT file systems and popular operating systems, including Android, Linux, ThreadX, and Windows CE. With Paragon’s UFSD support for all popular file systems built into modern digital devices, consumers can enjoy issue-free compatibility between their media centers, digital televisions, set-top boxes, or any digital device with USB, SD, or Micro SD sockets and those used to format storage media, such as portable HDDs, in order to freely playback recorded video and audio regardless of file system type.

Modern multimedia systems based on popular embedded operating systems provide the ability to play multimedia files. Common storage incompatibility issues arise when launching multimedia files from storage media formatted on Windows, Mac OS or from modern high-capacity SD XC cards on devices that do not support the media format, such as Linux multimedia stations that work only with FAT or Linux-native file systems. With Paragon’s cross-platform technology, barriers between multimedia devices and media file systems are eliminated, allowing users to enjoy multimedia devices that can write data to and read data from external media of any file system. Paragon’s UFSD technology makes it possible to process unsupported partitions to browse contents, read and modify files, copy and create new files and folders, and more, while maintaining high-performance read/write access and speedy file transfers.

For more information on this and other cross-platform solutions, please contact technology@paragon-software.com, or visit us at ShowStoppers @ CES 2012, Table B11.

Paragon Software to demo UFSD Cross-Platform technology and discuss the coming Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 Suite at ShowStoppers at CES 2012

UFSD cross-platform technology

The bad news: Modern multimedia systems — including set-top boxes, portable media players (PMP), smart phones and tablet PCs — based on Android, Linux, ThreadX, Windows CE and other embedded operating systems, provide the ability to play multimedia files. Common incompatibility issues arise when launching multimedia files from storage media formatted on Windows, MacOS or from modern high-capacity SD XC cards.

The good news: With Paragon’s Universal File System Driver cross-platform technology, compatibility barriers are eliminated, allowing users to enjoy multimedia content (including space-consuming HD movies) stored on external media of ANY file system (exFAT, NTFS, HFS+, FAT32) on multimedia systems based on virtually any operating system: Android, Linux, ThreadX, Windows CE and others.

Hard Disk Manager 12 Suite (coming in February 2012)

Hard Disk Manager 12, the high-end, all-in-one software that manages, maintains and protects your hard disk data, is intensified with new, compelling features based on award-winning Hard Disk Manager 11.
*Interested media are invited to SIGN UP for receiving exclusive pre-release reviewer licenses and get first-hand information on new features at the Showstoppers@CES 2012.

WE WISH YOU…

Paragon Software prepared special greetings for their loved Facebook fans and valued customers!

Dear Friends,

Christmas is a magic time when people all over the world join with their families, close friends and loved ones no matter the distance spacing beetween them.

In much the same way, members of our Paragon Software FAMILY, that live in different parts of the planet and speak the variety of languages, ONCE a YEAR got together to WISH YOU all the BEST for this wonderful CHRISTMAS season!
Find our very special DAILY greetings prepared by Paragon FAMILY members for each of you at Facebook page

Would you like to wish something special to us as well or just say “Hi” to all the fans and friends of Paragon Facebook community? JOIN us on FACEBOOK and feel free to share your greeting cards or photos on the WALL any time during the Christmas season.

*Do not hesitate to use your native language and tag your photo with friends and family 😉

Smooth migration of 64-bit Windows Vista/7 to a modern GPT/UEFI platform is now open to you!

Users of motherboards with UEFI support are now able to use large-capacity drives as primary drives and change boot mode from BIOS to UEFI without reinstalling Windows.

Home and small-office users who move their 64-bit Windows Vista or Windows 7 software environments from the dated MBR/BIOS configuration to a modern GPT/UEFI platform find that there is no simple way to replace and adjust booting without reinstalling the operating system from scratch. While Windows Disk Management supports conversion to GPT for empty drives only, there is no way to convert the system drive to GPT without losing any data. Windows Management tools do not provide an option to adjust boot files for UEFI, making it impossible for users transferring established data or system components within a single computer directly from a BIOS boot mode to a UEFI-based mode.

Paragon Migrate to UEFI was especially designed to cover all issues caused by migration to new UEFI-based boot mode, helping users easily transfer their data and significantly simplifying all system migration operations. In four quick steps, users can migrate a physical system to any new hard drive or a modern large-capacity drive, and use this GPT-partitioned disk as a primary boot drive. An easy click-through wizard allows users to select the source MBR system drive for migration to a new (up to 3TB capacity) drive and copy the data while the software automatically adjusts the system. Paragon Migrate to UEFI works with all 512 sector type drives, both external and virtual.

Paragon Migrate to UEFI is available for immediate download, FREE of charge as part of the Early Adopter Program. Interested parties are invited to run pre-production software to help validate features of the new technology.

CHRISTMAS FAIR from Paragon Software!

Dear Friends,
Paragon Software invites you to visit Family Christmas Fair!
Find the best gifts for your loved ones on our CHRISTMAS web page! Here you will find a variety of Paragons top-sellers packed in special FAMILY license editions!
Want to get extra 5% discount? Make your cherished purchase via Paragon Facebook page!

Vote for the most valuable ITEMs to be safety kept for future generations

Dear friends and participants,

The registration for the “Capture your Legacy” project is over. Thank you for your participation and sincerity! Each ITEM shared by you is really “special” and definitely worth keeping for future generations.
Now it’s time to choose the TOP 10 ITEMS to be safety kept in the Paragon Backup Capsule! Help us to select the most precious ones!

How to vote:

1 – Go to the photo album “My Legacy” on Paragon Facebook page
2 – Click “LIKE” under every picture you really like — you can LIKE one or several pictures
3 – Invite your family and friends to vote for the most special items!

10 items collected the most of your LIKEs will be kept in the capsule!
Missed a registration stage? Not a problem! Join now by sharing your opinion — vote for the the best once! We still need your opinion!

The voting finishes on December, 5th 2012