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Paragon Software reveals the market educational article about possible Windows 8 booting issues and explanations on how the user can solve these challenges.
The new Windows 8 and Server 2012 will be the base operating systems for upcoming new computers, laptops and servers. UEFI is the recommended platform for all of them. In spite of all of its advantages, many users are still not familiar with UEFI. There are known issues which may arise when you decide to manage EFI boot options or migrate to an EFI-based computer from another one. In most of these cases, your OS will simply not boot.
Boise State University’s TRiO Educational Talent Search and TRiO Upward Bound Programs selected Paragon’s Hard Disk Manager (HDM) to save time and resources to deploy and/or reimage desktop systems.
Boise State University’s TRiO Educational Talent Search (ETS) and Upward Bound programs provide outreach and assistance to first-generation college bound and low-income students. The programs maintain ten to twelve off-site classrooms with three to five computers each, requiring regular reimaging.
After researching a software options, Corey Simpson, IT coordinator for Boise State University’s ETS and Upward Bound program, scheduled a demonstration of Paragon’s HDM.
“We needed to decrease the amount of time we were spending on reimaging machines,” said Simpson. “One of the features I looked for in a solution was the ability to process multiple restores on the network — Paragon was the only vendor offering the features I needed as well as disk partition and other disk management tools.”
Already the most comprehensive tool on the market, Hard Disk Manager now delivers the most advanced Storage Spaces support, new UEFI-Switch and Boot Media Builder features, plus much more!
Paragon Software announces the release of a new major update to both Hard Disk Manager 12 Suite and Hard Disk Manager 12 Professional, ensuring the safest and most up-to-date Windows 8 user experience possible. With the release of Windows 8 64-bit and Windows Server 2012, UEFI has become standard, delivering new options and adding flexibility to the booting process and the fine-tuning of hardware use. Paragon’s advanced UEFI support solves booting problems that may arise during migration or restoration from an old to a new hard disk due to a change in port connection. All necessary changes to Windows Boot Manager will be made, and the system will reboot without any manual intervention. To simplify the use of systems with multiple volumes, Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 also includes a new UEFI-Switch feature that allows the user to define which boot entry should be used.
The Storage Spaces feature of Windows 8 is an important step to easy implementation of thin provisioning or storage resiliency, helping users to use existing hard drives and to combine them for saving videos or other large files. Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 can perform all maintenance and configuration operations with volumes on Storage Spaces, be it backup, partitioning or deletion. Additionally, the release of this major update delivers a new version of Paragon Boot Media Builder, which creates a 64-Bit UEFI-compatible boot volume that can be written on a DVD, a USB flash drive or saved as an ISO-file for virtual environments.
New and updated features include:
1. Full Windows 8 support
2. Support for GPT/UEFI configurations to successfully clone, migrate, or restore a 64-bit Windows configured to the UEFI-based boot mode
3. Enhanced physical-to-physical and physical-to-virtual functionality
4. Boot Corrector — allows the user to perform UEFI switch in order to define a bootable operating system in case of several OSs hosted on one UEFI machine
5. Storage Spaces support
6. Advanced Paragon Boot Media Builder (BMB) add-on:
• BMB is now compatible with the Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows 8, allowing the user to build RCD based on Windows PE 4.0
• BMB creates a 64-Bit UEFI-compatible boot volume that can be written on a DVD, a USB flash drive or saved as an ISO-file for virtual environments.
Pricing & Availability:
The Major Update to Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 Suite and Professional editions is available free of charge to current Hard Disk Manager 12 customers at: https://www.paragon-software.com/account/login.htm?from=my-account
Hard Disk Manager 12 Suite is available for $US49.95 (€39.95) via download from http://www.paragon-software.com/home/hdm-personal/. Hard Disk Manager 12 Professional is available for USD 99.95 (EUR 79.95) via download from http://www.paragon-software.com/home/hdm-professional/
Get full read/write access to NTFS on Seagate drives with the latest edition of NTFS for Mac OS X 10!
Paragon Software sends its Thanksgiving greetings to all Seagate drive owners, inviting them to experience the latest 10th edition of Paragon’s outstanding NTFS for Mac driver FREE of charge. Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X 10 for Seagate drives, specially designed for Mac and dual boot users, is compatible with any Seagate disks and is available for download free of charge starting Thanksgiving Day, November 22, at 9 am EST through December 1, 9 am EST 2012.
Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X 10 is the only NTFS driver on the market that provides full read/write access to NTFS with the same high speed as native HFS+ files. The 10th edition provides support to the latest OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
Additionally, Mac, Windows and dual-boot users can experience total communication with Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X 10 & HFS+ for Windows 10 Bundle. With full read-write access to both NTFS and HFS+/HFSX partitions, this specially collected set of drivers creates a seamless environment for Mac users who need full-speed access to Windows’ NT File System. The Bundle is available for download starting November 15 until December 1 , 2012 for one special price.
Paragon Software announced the launch of Paragon’s Business Recovery and Continuity (BRC) Planning service.The October 29th storm that hit the east coast gave organizations the opportunity to test their business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) plans. Now is a good time to evaluate the effectiveness and make improvements where needed.
Since 1994, Paragon has provided superior, cost-effective DR software. The addition of the BRC Planning service extends Paragon’s ability to help businesses prepare for disaster and significantly minimize downtime. Furthermore, regulatory bodies such as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA require accurate recovery estimates and well-designed plans for businesses to meet compliance requirements.
“We have been providing the technology and processes enabling effective business continuity for years; formalizing the portfolio into a comprehensive service offering is a natural extension for Paragon,” said Daniel Eickhoff, director of channel sales at Paragon. “The recent mega-storm, Sandy, demonstrated that the need in the community is great; many companies see that now is a good time to audit their plans and make necessary adjustments to ensure they are a survivor and not a victim of the next disaster.”
For more information, visit http://paragon-downloads.com/disaster-recovery-planning> or call 888.347.5462.
Healthcare and Aerospace/Aeronautics Markets not Embracing Cloud Storage, While Tape Holds Footprint
Paragon Software conducted a survey among 377 IT professionals from August 29 – September 7, 2012. The results show that of those surveyed, utilizing local server storage was the most popular method (52.6 percent) for securing critical data in the IT environment, followed closely by Network Attached Storage (51.2 percent); with only about a 30 percent adoption rate of cloud services. Tape still maintains a footprint with a use of 38.8 percent. (Note: In some cases, multiple storage methods are employed within the same IT environment thus resulting in a totaling of storage methods greater than 100 percent.)
Why is storage management subsystem improvement not yet on Google’s roadmap? The open-source community has been addressing storage interoperability issues for more than ten years. Is there an answer?
Gadgets running on a spectrum of platforms will be purchased this holiday season, and they don’t always work together seamlessly. Your friend’s favorite Windows PC program won’t run well on your Mac, the app you love on your iOS doesn’t have an Android equivalent and, to top it off, your mobile devices won’t work flawlessly with your laptops. With the increasing popularity of Android devices, which have captured 68 percent of the mobile market share to date and are expanding into other areas of the consumer electronics market, users need an easy and reliable way to interchange data between Android devices and Macs or PCs.
You can contact Paragon Software at pr@paragon-software.com , or reach Paragon through the company’s support forum and Facebook Page.
Paragon’s Hard Disk Manager 12 Professional was tested and reviewed by Eric B. Rux, editor of Windows IT Pro (USA), and rated as 4.5 out of 5:
“RECOMMENDATION: If you work on desktop or server hardware, this is a must have in any PC technician’s toolbox. […] Hard Disk Manager has everything you need to maintain good hard disk health“.
October 2012, Windows IT Pro, USA
The migration solution from Paragon Software was rated with 4 stars out of 5!
The verdict: Paragon Drive Copy 12 Professional does pretty much what it claims, copying drives and components of drives from one place to another. There’s nothing radically different about version 12, other than Windows 8 support and a couple of extra virtualisation options. It’s well priced, though and can be a big time-saver when upgrading or protecting your system.