Next-generation multimedia devices get a boost from Paragon Software

Paragon UFSD Cross-platform Technology Proves Critical for HD Audio and Video Playback & Recording in Digital Multimedia Product Lines

Paragon Universal File System Driver (UFSD) technology is now available to OEMs of consumer multimedia devices seeking cross-platform file system support. With Paragon’s UFSD support for all popular file systems built into modern digital devices, consumers can enjoy issue-free compatibility between file systems used on their media centers, digital televisions and set-top boxes, and those used to format storage media, such as portable HDDs, in order to freely play back recorded video and audio regardless of file system type.

Critical for reliable HD audio/video recording and playback, Paragon’s UFSD technology guarantees high-performance, cross-platform read/write access and speedy file transfer in digital multimedia devices. Paragon UFSD technology can be fully integrated into the VFS (Virtual File System) stack of the operating system, including ThreadX devices, enabling OEMs to ensure end-user access to files stored on externally attached NTFS, HFS+ and exFAT file system-formatted media.

According to Konstantin Komarov, CEO, Paragon Software Group, “File system incompatibility can be a real issue for a wide range of consumer products, often delaying or even halting consumer product development. We offer chipmakers an elegant, cost-effective way of solving the issue and meeting increased customer demand for high-performance access to large data files, such as HD video.”

Find more key features in the official announcement

For more information on this and other cross-platform solutions, please contact technology@paragon-software.com

Paragon is celebrating 11.11.11 by offering 11 bestsellers for $11.11 each for 11 hours only!

Happy 11.11.11! Paragon Software is celebrating this lucky day with our valued customers by offering 11 of our products for $11.11 each for 11 hours only! Happy coincidence? We hope so!

Take advantage of this timely offer and visit the 11.11.11 web page or the Paragon Facebook page today starting 7 am EST, or you’ll have to wait another hundred years for a chance like this!

11 bestsellers include:

Paragon Hard Disk Manager 11 Suite
Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X 9.5
Paragon Backup & Recovery 11 Home
Paragon Partition Manager 11 Personal Edition
Paragon HFS+ for Windows 9.0
Paragon CampTune 9.5
Paragon Migrate OS to SSD
Paragon Alignment Tool 3.0
Paragon System Backup 11
Paragon Disk Wiper 10.0 Personal Edition
Paragon Encrypted Disk 4.0

Take advantage of this moment in time to grab some of the best software in history!

The offer is available on 11.11.11 from 7 am EST till 6 pm EST at Paragon Software website or Paragon Facebook page.

Paragon Software’s backup and disaster recovery software used by RAND Worldwide for field and classroom laptop protection

Hidden and Protected Image Eliminates Unauthorized Backup and Restores

RAND Worldwide – one of the world’s leading providers of technology solutions and professional services to the engineering community – is now using Paragon’s backup and disaster recovery software to protect its remote and classroom laptops.

For field operations, one of the deciding factors behind selecting Paragon’s software was that the software could hold a backup image within a hidden and protected partition, while minimizing accessibility by anyone but an administrator. “Other software we evaluated required the product to be installed on the machine,” said Doug Dragich, senior systems engineer for RAND Worldwide. “We needed software that would allow us to prevent a user from running the program and changing any of the settings or carrying out unauthorized backups or restores. Paragon’s hidden backup capsule technology ensures the availability and integrity of the backup image, and guarantees a successful and quick restore when it counts.”

“More and more, companies like RAND Worldwide depend on Paragon Software’s backup and disaster recovery tools to simply and effectively protect their users’ systems and data,” said Tom Fedro, president of Paragon Software Group. “We are very happy to have such an acclaimed company as RAND join our list of quality clients.”

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Tame your new OS X Lion with Paragon’s latest optimization tools

Mac users strive to get the most from their latest hardware and software. Apple solutions are generally well written, and if you do encounter issues they are often easily and painlessly resolved. Our team has prepared a very special educational article in which we discuss a few Mac peculiarities you may encounter with the latest OS X Lion, and of course, some simple tips for their resolution.

We highly recommend this very useful educational article Tame Your New OS X Lion with Paragon’s Latest Optimization Tools to all sophisticated Mac users in order to find interesting tips to get most of their hardware.

What you will find out reading the article:

– how to make use of “Lion Recovery” feature if you have a dual-system Mac
– how to effectively work in two different environments
– the best way to convert old environments into a virtual clone
and more

We are happy to share our expert opinion with Mac community and aim to keep up with Mac users’ high level of expectations. We invite you to take a look on Paragon Camptune X betaa next-generation utility that changes volume sizes in dual-boot Mac OS X/Windows systems – and provide your feedback here

Find YOUR TREATS for Halloween!


Hey Firends,

you’ve got a few days to make use of the BEST Halloween DEALS from Paragon Software!

SAVE ON the most popular solutions to keep your PC secure not even this Halloween!

Partition Manager 11 Personal, usually priced at $39.95, will help you completely control and manage your hard disks.

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Backup & Recovery 11 Home – our newest backup solution, usually priced at $39.95, designed ideally for both accomplished and novice users.

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Running Windows on your Mac? Not a problem! We’ve got a special “TREAT” for dual boot users right HERE!

The offers expire November 1, 2011.

Happy Halloween!

CAPTURE YOUR LEGACY for future generations with Paragon Software

Paragon Software invites you to cultivate methods of keeping your legacy safe for future generations joining experimental project hosted on Paragon FACEBOOK

Watch the introductory video by CLICKing the banner and do not hesitate to SHARE it with your friends!

Do you possess something special, a keepsake you hope to share in the future? How do you capture distinct moments in the past — snapshots of fleeting instants, specks of time on the continuum? EVERY LIVING SECOND has the power to yield SOMETHING EXEPTIONAL, something that WE WOULD NOT WANT TO LOSE.

If you could save ONE ITEM FOR POSTERITY, what would it be?

Paragon Software has created a unique BACKUP CAPSULE to safely hold your precious pieces. BECOME a PART of this exciting experimental project and SHARE YOUR ITEMS or memories with future generations!

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

1. Click “LIKE” button on Paragon Facebook to START!
2. Simply post one item – a written description – to Paragon’s Facebook page that you think is worth keeping for the future. This item could be a concrete thing that you have created or own, or an abstract item like a certain experience or bit of knowledge, or even a distinct moment in the past. SOMETHING WORTHY of saving for posterity.

Once the registration stage finishes, users, fans and other participants will be asked to vote for the TOP 10 ARTIFACTs (out of a bunch of randomly selected pieces) to be kept safely in the Capsule!

Each registered user who submits an item will receive a discount coupon via email good for 50 percent OFF selected Paragon Software products.

Each submitted item will be shown here at the Paragon Software blog in the “My Legacy” left bar-menu , where you can view a running list of entries in real time.

THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO CURATE ARTIFACTS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS!

Entries accepted until November 15, 2011.

Paragon Software reinforces its support for Mac users with the release of 3 products!

Paragon Software releases three solutions for Mac users working in a dual OS environment or planning to upgrade to OS X Lion – NTFS for Mac® OS X 9.5, Virtualization Manager for Mac and a beta version of CampTune X.

Recognizing users’ desire to combine dual OS environments on their Mac with NTFS and HFS+ volumes on a single drive, get full access to any NTFS volume, and transition smoothly to a virtual environment, Paragon Software has created three utilities addressing needs specific to today’s Mac users. Dual-boot systems running both OS X and Windows do not have built-in utilities for volume resizes, leading to available space shortage barriers on HFS and NTFS volumes. Attempting to retrieve data from devices using an unsupported file system is impossible without specialized drivers. Even a straightforward upgrade from an older Mac OS to the latest OS X Lion can introduce unforeseen incompatibility issues with the software.

NTFS for Mac® OS X 9.5 — the first NTFS driver to support the latest OS X Lion — adds NTFS file allocation system support to Mac OS X, allowing the operating system to access any NTFS-formatted drive.
Owners of Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X 9.0 may upgrade to version 9.5 for free.

CampTune X is a next-generation utility that changes volume sizes in dual-boot Mac OS X/Windows systems by adding more space to one volume at the expense of another.
Paragon CampTune X Beta is open to beta testers and can currently be downloaded for free.Become a beta tester and download this product>>

Virtualization Manager for Mac OS X is a solution for smooth migration of an Mac OS X environment to a virtual machine, and allows users to create and run a virtual clone of a physical machine that can be used anywhere.Virtualization Manager for Mac is a standalone application that runs the virtual clone of your OS X-driven environment on another machine without loading into a special environment, or saves it for use as a backup. Paragon Virtualization Manager for Mac can be downloaded for FREE!

Paragon Software’s NTFS for Android driver embedded into Acer ICONIA TAB A500 and ICONIA TAB A501 tablets

Enables Multimedia File Sharing between Tablets and Windows-formatted USB Hard Drives

Paragon’s Universal File System Driver (UFSD) technology was selected to be embedded into Acer’s Android™ Honeycomb-based ICONIA TAB A500 and ICONIA TAB A501 tablets. By adding NTFS support, users can easily transfer music, video, and other data file types between a Windows-formatted storage device and their tablets.

Paragon’s UFSD technology enables systems and devices to have full access to file systems which otherwise would not be supported. Acer is licensing Paragon’s UFSD-based NTFS for Android driver to enhance the capability of their tablets, since most hard drives are formatted for NTFS. Tablets without the Paragon driver require users to first reformat their hard drive to the older FAT file system before they can be used.

“We are very excited to have Acer as a strategic partner and for their innovative ICONIA TAB tablets to include Paragon’s unique USFD technology,” said Tom Fedro, president at Paragon Software Group. “This collaboration seamlessly extends the capabilities of an Android-based device, especially for multi-media applications, helping to ensure end users have a predictable and enjoyable experience with their tablet.”

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Paragon Alignment Tool™ 3.0 for ESX® now available for remote partition alignment in the virtual environment

Want to get the most out of your ESX or Hyper-V infrastructure?

Virtual hard drives are using page sizes similar to those of found with newer Advanced Format Drives. Misalignment is very common for this type of drive, which results in redundant read/write operations, and critically affects overall performance and (indirectly) hardware lifespan. The same holds true for virtual hard drives — even a simple migration of a virtual machine from one VMware ESX Server to another could end up with a misaligned virtual drive. The situation aggravates when the host’s hard drive and virtual drives are both misaligned — the number of redundant read/write operations doubles.

Paragon Alignment Tool™ (PAT) 3.0 for ESX® is the next generation of the best-selling classical PAT that is aimed exclusively at optimizing virtual drives. It’s been designed primarily for IT personnel who administer Windows or Linux guest environments that are running on VMware ESX Server. However it can also be very useful for improving the disk subsystem performance of guest operating systems under control of Microsoft Hyper-V Server.

Learn more about the new component

In LOVE with Paragon Software…

Dear All,

Have a look on the most wholehearted e-mail from “a very Satisfied Customer” to Paragon Software we was given recently. Read up to the end!

Not meaning to gush, but …..

A while back, I was having a problem with Windows XP, and the obvious solution was to re-install it. Sounds fine, but what happened is what I understand now has happened to a whole lot of other people. Windows didn’t re-install, it installed and duplicated itself as a second operating system on my second drive, and then I could not get into this new, schizophrenic Windows except in safe mode. Couldn’t even access the BIOS.

My son, whom I love dearly, is a techie for a subcontractor for IT company, and he is strictly a Mac and Linux person, himself … and after hearing my sad strory, he agreed that I would no doubt need to re-format and start over, but he was sending me a copy of Windows 7 – the 64 bit version – and once it arrived, he guided me through a solution, and I followed all his instructions and was informed by Windows that my CPU couldn’t handle 64 bit Windows – a statement the manufacturer’s specs dispute, by the way. And after cleaning up all that mess, re-re-formatted and tried to go back to Windows XP on a clean drive and install it until I could get the Windows 7 in 32 bit, and for some bizarre reason, Windows would not allow me a new partition for any more than 10GB, on a 500GB SCSI drive. I’d enter a larger figure and it would say “uh-uh” and send me back to the previous page until I got it right. So, I ended up with Windows in its own little partition .. and then several programs I re-installed never asked for a choice of drives and insisted on installing into the same drive as Windows, and I soon ran out of room. Okay, I started out in computers with a Commodore 64 … but it’s been along time since a 10 GB drive could cut it, and it sure don’t now!

NO PROBLEM, my son says, and ships me this nifty Linux program to straighten it all out, assuring me it’s “easy!” Just follow the instructions. So, I booted up with the program.. Which then ran steadily for two and a half days straight, telling me every sector in my drive was damaged and totally inaccessible until I finally said ENOUGH! Easy, this was not! I also didn’t believe it.

Got your demo today at the recommendation of several websites, starting with ehow.com, liked it, bought a 10 day license, immediately downloaded the full program, installed it, ran it, and not 10 minutes later, I had two nice drives again, and didn’t lose a single bit of data. and everything is working beautifully. Less than an hour from the time I downloaded the demo to having my computer running along just beautifully again…. after over a week of efforts by all sorts of other methods. If I hadn’t already had grey hair, this last week would have done it, but your Partition Manager just did all the work and I didn’t pull out one single hair in the process. Didn’t even cuss, scream or slam my keyboard!

I can’t thank you enough … and being a widow on Social Security and already spending more than I should on the computer, I very much appreciate the consideration of your 10 day license at the considerably reduced charge. That’s an excellent offer that I am sure is an ideal solution for a great many of us home computer owners. I hope that I will not need your program again, but if I do .. you’ll be hearing from me for a renewal. And I will recommend your program to anyone else I hear has any sort of partition problem.

Thank you, from a very satisfied customer!

Jeannie Vaughan

Dear Jeannie,
thank you very much for your kind words and your willingness to share your positive experience! You made us “The Happiest Software Developer”!

Sincerely Yours,
Paragon Software