Converse College Customer Paragon

Paragon Software Group
(Paragon Technologie GmbH)
announced that SC-based Converse College selected HDD Manager (HDM) Premium for
ease of deployment, dependable backup and recovery, job-scheduling features and
cost effectiveness.

"It was time to update our tape
backup solution or find a more cost-effective replacement," said Cori
Williams McClure, network administrator at Converse College. "After conducting initial research on what
other educational institutions used for backup and recovery, I reached out to
our trusted IT provider ScholarBuys for their recommendation."

"I proposed Paragon Software as an
alternative for Converse College because they offer a great backup solution,"
said Spencer Leffelman, sales executive at ScholarBuys, LLC a VAR specializing
in the education market. "I have
always heard positive feedback from our customers that currently use Paragon."

"We are happy to welcome Converse
College to the Paragon family," said Daniel Eickhoff, director of
channel sales. "We are proud to be
chosen as their backup and DR solution, and we are taking this responsibility
very seriously. To that end, we offer US-based technical support and frequent
webinars to help educate our customers so they can get the most out of our
products."

HDM is an image-based backup and DR software that protects data,
minimizes downtime, and lowers storage and management costs while ensuring BC
through instant system recovery. Live server migration technology (P2V, V2P,
V2V, and P2P) makes conversions easy and enables IT managers to make use of
virtual environments for flexible DR strategies.

Features include:

• Incremental and differential backups of physical and VMs
• Fast backup and restore speeds
• Bare-metal restore and hardware-independent restore (HIR)
• Instant system recovery, leveraging VMs
• Scheduling and retention wizards for set-and-forget operation
• Scripting to facilitate unique backup scenarios
• Live Windows system migrations (P2V, V2V, V2P, P2P)
• Partitioning and disk wiping
• Windows 8, Server 2012 and GPT/uEFI support
• Support for SSDs and AFDs (2TB+, non-512B sector size)