New Paragon Migrate OS to SSD 4.0 – one-step migration to solid-state drives

Paragon Migrate OS to SSD 4.0 – a one-step tool to help with Windows systems migration to new storage devices – solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs) –  instantly performs fast and safe Windows migrations to HDD or SSD and even downsizes to smaller capacity drives, thanks to advanced data exclusion capabilities. You can transfer a live system with no impact to your work, and have your partitions automatically aligned in the process, if needed. The new release fully supports Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 and comes with the new user-friendly interface that is fully compatible with the Windows 8 streamlined, tile-oriented interface.

The technology that powers Paragon Migrate OS to SSD 4.0 comes from Paragon’s Hard Disk Manager 14, the company’s recently upgraded full-function disk management toolkit that also provides optimization of NTFS volumes, Windows migration to dissimilar hardware, backup and recovery, simplified virtualization of an existing system, and more.

New and major features in Paragon Migrate OS to SSD 4.0:

  • NEW! Support for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2
  • NEW! Windows 8-style GUI
  • The option to build a WinPE bootable media to do migrations or to fix various boot problems without installing the product
  • Migration of 64-bit Windows systems configured to the uEFI-based boot mode directly under Windows, without any work interruption or having to reboot

Paragon Migrate OS to SSD 4.0 is available for a limited offer price of $13.95 (regular price $19.95)

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Paragon Software releases Hard Disk Manager 14 with a set of major new features

Complete Support of uEFI Configurations, Storage Spaces, Metro-Style GUI, Advanced Backup and Recovery with 10x Faster Incremental Imaging to the Net, Smooth Migration to SSD or in a Virtual Environment, Rock-stable Partitioning, Secure Data Wiping and much more!

Paragon’s famous data protection and management tool, available in Suite and Professional editions, gains a host of new features including Windows 8.1 support and an enhanced and faster disk imaging technology.

HDM 14 is the all-inclusive data management tool for Windows users to maintain and administer PCs and work stations with minimal effort over their entire life cycle. HDM 14 is compatible with the Windows 8 streamlined, tile-oriented interface, offering a Metro-style express launcher and a ribbon-based full-scale launcher. Hard drives can be partitioned and data can be backed up using a variety of backup routines no matter whether they are in physical or virtual environments. HDM 14 supports dynamic drives and presents users with the ideal solution for modern hard disk management.

Providing support for Windows BitLocker, HDM 14 Professional edition 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 the native Windows feature, as well as data recovery of BitLocker encrypted partitions.

See the full features comparison list for both Suite and  Professional editions.

“Hard Disk Manager has been helping Windows users manage and back up their storage for almost 15 years. HDM 14 keeps pace with current practices through full support for Windows 8.1, faster backup to network, and features to assist migration to solid state drives,” says Konstantin Komarov, CEO of Paragon Software Group. “Paragon Software looks forward to meeting its customers’ evolving storage management needs in the years ahead,” he added.

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Paragon Camptune X now delivers full Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks support and new features

No need to reboot your Mac to perform repartitioning. Camptune X works directly in your Mac to share free space on either operating system quickly and easily with no data loss

Paragon Software releases new Camptune X with full support for the latest OS X 10.9 Mavericks. In addition, the new update now provides support for Windows 8.1 Boot Camp and uEFI Boot Camp configuration. Camptune X solves the maintenance problem that Mac Boot Camp™ users encounter when they run out of free partition space. With Camptune X, Mac users can redistribute available space between Macintosh and Windows partitions rapidly without data loss, adding free megabytes to partitions on either operating system quickly and easily.

Many dual-boot users face the problem of resizing partitions as the amount of data – either on Mac OS X volume or windows volume – increases over time. Paragon 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.  Simple to use, Camptune X is a native utility that adjusts volume size in a few simple clicks without the need to boot to a special environment.

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The survey by Paragon Software highlights the backup behaviors of small and medium-sized businesses

Small businesses are key players in regional economies. Many small business entrepreneurs are experts in what they do but start a business without any training or experience in IT management practices. As a result of inadequate IT management, small businesses experience data loss and, consequently, fail in the early years as a business. According to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, 70% of small businesses that have a major data loss go out of business within a year. They fail not because of a flaw in the product or service they offer, but because the business was not properly managed from the IT side. In order to successfully manage the most valuable aspect of any business – data, a small business has to hire an IT administrator, outsource the IT management task or get a training on how to fulfill the IT task themselves. Small businesses usually do not have dedicated IT staff and have little desire to spend a lot of time or money on technology or sign up for complicated licensing agreements.

The survey shows that:

  • 29.41% have no IT administrators in-house or a possibility to hire one.
  • 19.23% look for data management tools to handle all data maintenance on site and from a single interface, with minimal involvement.
  • 23.53% back up data manually.
  • 76.47% back up data automatically.
  • 50% prefer to store data physically and virtually.
  • 20% do not conduct daily backups.
  • 42.86% of those who do not back up daily indicated that the reason is that it’s not an efficient use of their time.
  • 21.54% said reliability is the most important factor in data backup tools.

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Paragon Software releases new NTFS for Mac OS X 11 with full support for the latest OS X 10.9 Mavericks and new features!

Fastest and Safest Data Transfer between Mac and Windows Operating Systems

The newest Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X 11 – standalone OS X 10.9 Mavericks-compatible software – addresses to Mac users who want to share data between Mac and Windows operating systems. NTFS for Mac OS X 11 is the industry’s fastest NTFS driver — it achieves the speed of native HFS+ drivers and gives the fastest and most stable full read/write access to Windows partitions under Mac OS X. The latest edition comes with new features and a new installer interface, making the installation process more intuitive and easy as ever.

Full support for OS X 10.9 Mavericks, improved VMware Fusion support, new automated product update option and a lot more are among the new features in NTFS for Mac OS X 11!

“NTFS for Mac OS X 11 with full support for OS X 10.9 Mavericks. We are very excited to be among the first software developers to support Apple’s new operating system. Now all Mac users who switch to OS X 10.9 Mavericks can continue to use Paragon’s NTFS driver safely and with no difficulties,” says Paragon’s CEO Konstantin Komarov.

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Paragon Software recently launched a portal hosting its comprehensive line of essential tools for users of multiple devices on Android, Windows, Mac OS X and Linux who seek to solve incompatibility issues. The portal is available at http://www.paragon-drivers.com

Paragon’s UFSD technology is now ported to UEFI to provide access to the variety of file systems

Paragon Software has ported its famous Universal File System Driver (UFSD) technology to UEFI in order to provide transparent access to NTFS, HFS+, ExFAT and ExtFS via UEFI’s Simple File System protocol. Currently the company provides support for such UEFI specifications as versions 1.10, 2.10 and 2.30 with  support for the latest 2.40 version coming soon.

With full support for popular file systems provided by Paragon’s UFSD for UEFI, our OEM customers can easily develop backup and recovery solutions for UEFI for their laptops based on virtually and OS including Windows, Linux and varieties of DOS.

UFSD SDK built for all versions of UEFI is also available for licensing, providing custom API for accessing all the file systems, including some file system features not directly available via UEFI’s Simple File System protocol.

Paragon Software Group celebrates the 15th anniversary of Hard Disk Manager

All-in-One Tool Kit Simplifies Backup & Disaster Recovery, Imaging, Virtualization and Disk Management Operations — Per-seat and Technicians Licenses Available

Hard Disk Manager Technician License (TL) is the perfect software for companies with support teams that are maintaining a large number of systems in the field, such as medical or other high-tech equipment manufacturers, or large organizations with a highly distributed environment, e.g. financial institutions or large restaurant chains. Many customers combine Tech Licenses with per-seat and volume licenses for maximum license coverage and flexibility.

Hard Disk Manager Technician License comes in 4 different editions, tailored to the needs of companies of different sizes and environments: Basic, Standard, Premium, and Enterprise.

Customer Testimonials:

“Paragon was the only backup and disaster recovery software vendor offering the most comprehensive software solution and knowledgeable staff. Hard Disk Manager did everything I needed it to do, providing the best value,” said Ben Spain, IT manager for Industrial Molds.

“I searched for nine months for software that enabled me to migrate my customers’ servers to new drives or all new hardware without hassle and without any risk of data loss,” said David Ward, president of Guardian I.T. Services. “I narrowed it down to two products: one, at nearly $1,000 per server, was pretty much cost-prohibitive; the second, Paragon Hard Disk Manager fit the bill perfectly. Not only does it offer twice the features at half the cost as the other option, but it also comes as a Technician License, which brings the per-server cost down even more. On a server restore or migration, no other software comes close in restore time, reliability and ease-of-use. I recommend HDM TL for any company with field technical support.”

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Paragon Software’s new portal prescribes a cure for consumer device data exchange headaches

The Largest Selection of Cross-platform Tools for Users of Incompatible Consumer Electronics on Android, Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

Paragon Software is happy to invite every user to visit a new portal — a very special place hosting a comprehensive selection of essential free or inexpensive tools for users of multiple devices seeking to solve incompatibility issues on consumer electronics.

Users of PCs, smartphones, audio and video equipment, TV sets, DVD players, digital cameras, and camcorders increasingly need to interchange data content between various incompatible systems. To solve the interoperability issue, Paragon Software has developed eight essential tools (seven drivers and a converter) to guarantee full high-performance read/write access to volumes of the most popular file systems (NTFS, HFS+, Ext2/Ext3/Ext4, etc.) under various platforms (Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.) where these file systems normally are not supported.

Paragon Software’s cross-platform tools are based on the company’s exclusive Universal File System Driver (UFSD) technology and enable any device to communicate and share files regardless of its operating system. Beyond access, the tools provide the highest data throughput speeds possible — equivalent to, or exceeding, native performance.

In an engaging, interactive way, the new portal invites you to pick two platforms. The portal then suggests the right software to solve the incompatibility issue and gives the user an opportunity to download it. TRY now!

Paragon Software Group’s Deployment Manager selected by Insight Investments for mass deployment of laptops

Disk Imaging Software Saves Time and Money by Providing Quick, Cost-Effective and Easy-to-Manage Multicast Imaging

Paragon Software Group’s Deployment Manager was selected by Insight Investments, LLC, system integrators based in California, as a reliable and scalable software to simplify the imaging process of tens of thousands of laptops for use in educational institutions across the country.

“About 70 percent of our business is with K-12 school districts as well as universities,” said Jay Johnson, vice president of operations at Insight Investments. “Each district has 10 to 45 schools. They come to us to purchase refurbished laptops in bulk. The schools send us a copy of the image they want duplicated onto their machines; a typical image includes the operating system, applications and 50 to 60 gigabytes of data. Before implementing Paragon’s Deployment Manager, the process was tedious requiring the removal of each laptop’s hard drive for imaging; now we can reimage the machines without disassembling them and connecting the hard drive to a duplicator.”


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Paragon Software Group’s Hard Disk Manager chosen by Saskatchewan Blue Cross

All-in-One Backup, Recovery and Imaging Software with Instant Restore from a Virtual Copy

Saskatchewan Blue Cross has selected Paragon’s Hard Disk Manager (HDM) Technician License for an all-in-one backup, recovery and imaging software with instant recovery to a virtual machine, from a copy of the physical system.

Saskatchewan Blue Cross senior network analyst, Janice Matus, recently purchased and installed IBM’s Pureflex System with SAN storage and needed to find an all-in-one software package that included backup, recovery and disk maintenance for the new virtual environment.

“We were replacing our outdated disk partitioning and wiping tool and came across Paragon’s Hard Disk Manager,” said Matus. “A combination of our need to replace outdated software and the fact that our P2V software did not support SSD-drive migration, made it an easy decision. One of the selling features was that it enables a restoration from a virtual image backup to a new physical drive (V2P).”

“Hard Disk Manager was designed as the Swiss-Army knife of disk utilities. We know that IT system administrators are wrestling daily with critical tasks such as system recovery, imaging, migration, virtualization, disk partitioning and secure wiping,” said Daniel Eickhoff, Director of Channel Sales for Paragon Software Group. “The Hard Disk Manager Tech License gives them a tool that they can rely on to get the job done.”

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