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Paragon Software launches “Pure Channel” Program to ignite demand, streamline sales cycles and drive profitable business growth for IT channel partners

New Channel Program Focuses on Award-Winning Paragon Protect & Restore Image-Based Backup and Disaster Recovery Product Line for Physical, Virtual and Hybrid Server Environments

Paragon Software Group has announced the  Paragon “Pure Channel” Program, an aggressive new go-to-market initiative that will fuel stronger revenues for Paragon channel partners, expedite sales cycles and deliver powerful new enablement and demand generation services to value-added resellers (VARs), direct marketing resellers (DMRs), integrators and managed service providers (MSPs).

Launched today and focused on the Americas, Pure Channel features a high-impact “Pure Profit” strategy grounded in what Paragon calls “POP” (Paragon Opportunity Protection), which offers 30 percent guaranteed margin protection to partners on their registered opportunities.

The new initiative is built around  Paragon Protect & Restore (PPR), a robust, effective and easy-to-manage image-based backup and disaster recovery (BDR) solution optimized for small to midsize business and mid-enterprise markets. Designed to meet the most demanding needs of physical, virtual and hybrid server environments, PPR offers Paragon’s channel partners a measurable technological advantage when providing business continuity solutions to their customers.

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Goodbye, Windows XP – see you in the virtual environment

On April 8th, 2014, Microsoft will be terminating its support and technical assistance for Windows XP, including the automatic security update. This marks the end of an era.

Are you still using Windows XP? If so, you should know that the end of Windows XP support will provide compatibility problems and security risks for Windows XP users.

Get ready for the switch!

Microsoft recommends Windows XP users who want to continue employing the old system after April 8th, to use it as a virtual operating system. Switch to a new PC and don’t get rid of your old one. This will make it easier and more convenient for you to switch to the new Windows. Switching to a new operating system generally takes a bit of getting used to. Windows 8 and 8.1, for instance, have a new “tile” interface and a wide range of apps, which presents a lot of changes in operation for users to adjust to. You will probably also notice that certain applications won’t run on the new operating system. Paragon Drive Copy allows you to transfer Windows XP to a virtual environment and create an exact clone of the software environment. Paragon Drive Copy 14 Professional will automatically transfer the operating system, programs, files and personal settings without losing any data.

Move your Windows XP to a virtual environment with Paragon Drive Copy 14 Professional! Now only $27.95. Valid until 11th of April.

The benefits of virtualization
You will be able to fall back on the old things you’re used to and use both your new and old operating systems at the same time. The applications you’re used to from the old PC can be run in a virtual environment on the new computer. This way, you can get used to all the new features step-by-step and keep using your preferred programs without having to forgo the advantages of the new, higher performance computer.
Paragon Drive Copy 14 Professional is available for a 30% discount between April 3 and April 11, 2014. After April 11th it returns to the regular price of $US39.95.

World Backup Day 2014

Paragon Software invites everyone to join the World Backup Day 2014 celebration! We would like to remind our users about the significance of personal data backup by offering the best commercial software for free.

March 31st until April 2nd, we are giving away Backup&Recovery 14 Compact on Paragon Facebook!

Additionally, the company gives you a chance to win 15 licenses of Paragon Hard Disk Manager 14 Professional ($99.95 value). Every day, from March 31st to April 4th at 9am (EDT), we will publish a riddle on Paragon Facebook wall and ask you to solve it. First 3 people to provide the right answer, will be granted Paragon Hard Disk Management 14 Pro. All other participants will be offered a special 30% discount on the product.

Join us on Facebook to win great prizes and take advantage of the giveaway.

Protect your valuable data!

Paragon Software invites Mac users to test its new migration tool

Join Paragon’s Beta Testing Program to test out Paragon Drive Copy for Mac® OS X Beta – a unique solution for smooth data migration!

Paragon Drive Copy for Mac® OS X is an intuitive user-friendly wizard that will help you make an exact clone of your Mac’s disk or any of its volumes to another disk or a virtual container in a few simple steps.

We invite all interested users to take part in a beta testing of the new Drive Copy tool. Bring your input to help Paragon elevate software solution to a higher quality level before commercial release. As a participant, you are able share your ideas, and together, we can create the best product possible.

Five of the most active beta testers, who provide the most valuable feedback or suggestions will receive free commercial licenses of Paragon Drive Copy for Mac ® OS X. However we appreciate any input and all beta-testers will get 30% discount on the final commercial version of program.

Paragon Software updates Hard Disk Manager 14 Family with major new features

Cyclic Backup to Virtual Drive, Merge pVHD Increments, UIM Support for VHDx Format and EFI Support for P2V Restore

Paragon Software releases major new features in Paragon Hard Disk Manager 14 family (includes Suite, Professional, Business and Premium editions) – the all-inclusive data management tools for Windows PC users and IT administrators of small to medium size businesses. Paragon Hard Disk Manager 14 editions offer the perfect set of tools to maintain and administer PCs and work stations with minimal effort over their entire life cycle.

New features include Merge pVHD increments, mount encrypted pVHD, support for VHDx virtual containers and others.

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Paragon Software Group provides insight into advantages of image-based backup and recovery with new white paper

Data Protection Innovator Teams with Leading Publisher to Examine High-Value IT Channel Opportunities and Offer Best-Practice Guidelines for Ensuring Business Continuity

Paragon Software announces a new business and technical white paper designed to help solution providers, value-added resellers (VARs) and managed services providers (MSPs) guide clients through the advantages of image-based backup and disaster recovery (BDR) while also benefiting from high-valueupsell opportunities associated with the technology.

Now available as a no-cost download from the Paragon Software website , the new white paper, titled “Unbeatable Disaster Recovery for Your Clients,” was developed in conjunction with The Channel Company, publishers of CRN, XChange Events and other established channel brands. The white paper examines the advantages of image-based backup and recovery solutions over legacy file-based systems and explores ways that multi-tiered backup can ensure business continuity in a variety of situations for organizations of all sizes.

The white paper, now available via the Paragon Software website, can be accessed by clicking here.

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Paragon Backup & Recovery 14 Home – safeguarding the data on your modern or old-school Windows PC

Faster, More Secure, Even More Reliable, and With Support for Virtualization and Microsoft’s Latest Operating System

Paragon Software releases Paragon Backup & Recovery 14 Home —  the most reliable and essential backup and recovery tool for Windows PC users whether they are running Windows 8.1, Windows 2000, or something in between. The new edition comes with a host of new and enhanced features to meet the needs of the latest systems, including complete uEFI support, backup and recovery of BitLocker encrypted partitions (thus protecting PC users’ data from loss and unauthorized access), and the new pVHD (Paragon Virtual Hard Drive) format for faster and more reliable backup.

“Backup & Recovery 14 simplifies the most important part of data management – regular backups and bare metal recovery. Mobile users using BitLocker will enjoy the ability to image their laptops and have protection against both – data loss and unauthorized data access. The improved image file format provides stress-free backup experience – incremental backups run 10x faster when storing to,“ said Konstantin Komarov, CEO of Paragon Software Group.

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Windows BitLocker and Paragon’s backup solutions

Use Paragon’s Backup Tools With Windows BitLocker to Protect Against Data Loss and Unauthorized Access

Approximately 60% of all computers sold worldwide today are portable. Portable computers are taken everywhere: home, vacations, or business trips. It makes them an easy target for criminals, especially for the private data they contain. Flash drives are also an easy theft target. Even a failed hard drive that you send back to your vendor for warranty is a potential threat to your private intellectual property. How can your personal data be protected? With one word – encryption!

Paragon Software Group (PSG) has developed an bylined article and a white paper explaining how to protect data all-around on user’s PC, hard drive or flash drive against unauthorised access and data loss. The paper focuses on Windows BitLocker (data encryption) and Paragon’s backup software. Providing support for BitLocker, the native encryption feature in Windows, Paragon Hard Disk Manager 14 (HDM 14) allows users to protect valuable or private data not only from accidental loss but also from unauthorized access. HDM 14 delivers faster data protection than BitLocker, as well as data recovery of BitLocker encrypted partitions.

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For more information please contact pr@paragon-software.com.

Paragon Software’s Protect & Restore selected by tire manufacturer Greenball for centralized backup and disaster recovery for virtual and physical environments

Provides Tight Integration with Hypervisors for Agentless Backups, VM Replication and Seamless Restore

Paragon Protect & Restore (PPR) was selected by tire manufacturer Greenball Corp. for centralized backup and disaster recovery. “We are very excited to welcome Greenball into the Paragon family,” said Tom Fedro, president of Paragon Software Group. “In 2013, we introduced PPR as a flexible, cost-effective software solution that provides tight integration with Hypervisors for agentless backups, VM replication and seamless restore for virtual and physical operating environments all through a centralized, easy to use interface.”

Paragon Protect & Restore is an innovative all-in-one software solution for backup and disaster recovery for virtual, physical and cloud environments offering protection for an organization’s entire IT infrastructure. The transparent backup administration stores backups according to company requirements and archives them to second-tier storage, e.g. the cloud or a remote office location. A convenient central management console offers complete control of all backup policies, storage configurations, and retention policies.

For questions, or to request an evaluation copy or schedule a demo, call Paragon at (888) 347-5462 or visit http://www.protect-restore.com.

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