OpenBench Labs Benchmark Analysis for Paragon Protect & Restore Software

Paragon Software Group announced its Paragon Protect & Restore (PPR) BDR software solution outperformed competing alternatives in benchmark analyses conducted by openBench Labs, an independent IT industry source providing evaluation and certification of IT products and services.

Available as a complimentary download, the two-part analysis reveals that PPR offers clear BDR advantages to organizations in need of data protection. PPR ranked highest in the areas of storage and resource utilization, deduplication and support for Exchange and complex virtual server environments.

openBench’s conclusions indicate that PPR utilizes a fraction of the storage of competing solutions, with agentless backup of an average SQL Server VM  consuming 10% of the storage used by BE2014 and other BDR alternatives when de-duplication is employed. Without a SQL Server agent, PPR created the smallest full backup image of all BDR solutions tested using deduplication. And without deduplication, agentless PPR incremental backups were 12% of the size of a leading BDR vendor’s incremental image, and agentless full VM backups were 63.5% smaller than BE2014.

Key findings of the analyses of PPR in openBench’s robust test environment* include:

• uses an application-aware agent to de-duplicate 95% more data from Exchange images than competitive solutions

•  agentless incremental VM backups are much smaller than BE2014 backups, requiring 98% less space

• agentless full VM backup was 46% smaller than BE2014

• agentless full VM replica was 32% smaller than BE2014

• agentless incremental VM replica snapshots were 68% smaller than competitive BDR solutions.

“From performance and value, to resource and cost savings, along with functionality in VM and Exchange email environments, PPR continues to lead the market in the areas that matter most to IT leaders and CIOs,” said Tom Fedro, president, Paragon. “While other BDR solutions might have bigger marketing budgets behind them, they fall far short of PPR when evaluated in rigorous test environments. We’d like to thank openBench for shedding light on the value that PPR brings to the table.“

Optimized for SMBs and mid-enterprise markets, BDR protects data spanning physical, virtual and hybrid server environments.

Earlier this year, Paragon announced that PPR earned a 9.83 out of 10 points possible in TopTenReview’s 2014 ranking of Best Server Backup Software. In addition, it tied with a global brand to capture the spot in the professional support category, while also earning the highest possible ratings across three other server backup software categories including recovery and restoration, management tools and resource management.