Paragon Software: HDD Manager 15 IT Essentials Toolkit

Paragon Software Group Corp. announced the HDD Manager (HDM) 15 IT Essentials Toolkit.

With this all-in-one solution, IT resellers now have an offering that ensures their customers’ business-critical workstations and servers stay up, running and available 24/7.

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Available through the company’s Pure Channel network of reseller partners across North America, this toolkit is robust, easy to use and takes care of numerous repetitive tasks that, up to now, required multiple point products with varying interfaces from several vendors. Using the HDM 15 Toolkit’s bootable flash drive, organizations of all sizes, from SMB to large-scale enterprises, can now optimize their time managing IT tasks with a single solution that can do it all including:

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Imaging and deployment: Designed for both servers and workstations, the toolkit easily creates and executes an imaging and deployment process for Windows-based systems. SMBs can upgrade storage with minimal impact on business activities and make use of fast copy/clone functionality to expedite migration to new HDDs,SSDs or to different hardware configurations.
Migration and virtualization: The toolkit makes it easy to move applications and OSs to new hardware, allowing the migration of Windows systems from practically any source to any target. In addition, it processes for virtualizing a running system, copying existing VMs and adapting them for use with a different hypervisor (e.g. from VMware Workstation to Hyper-V) or virtualizing a physical server before retiring it.
Partitioning and disk optimization: Advanced partitioning functions help make optimal use of all available HDD space. Whether preparing a HDD for use with multiple OSs or redistributing storage space across several different partitions, the HDM 15 Toolkit allows top performance from SSDs and HDDs with 4k sectors and RAID volumes by way of automatic partition alignment. An advanced mode provides precise analysis and repair tools, allowing users to fix boot problems or quickly analyze their HDD’s status.
Secure data destruction: When retiring an old HDD, Paragon’s military-grade wiping algorithms will protect and free up storage space to ensure data is permanently deleted.

“The new HDM 15 IT Essentials Toolkit offers a goldmine of functionality. Being able to provide a complete solution that scales to the enterprise and is priced starting at only $399 helps position iT1 Source as a trusted advisor to the IT professionals who count on us to help keep their networks optimized. Paragon’s new site licensing model has also made positioning and selling the right solution easy and ultimately, lets our customers get more value for their IT dollars,” said Zim Jackson, manager, partner programs, iT1 Source, LLC, national full-service technology solution provider.

The launch of this toolkit follows company’s April introduction of its Unified Site License, which simplifies selling for the reseller through pricing that is tiered according to the number of employees an end user company has.

“Today, more than ever, resellers gain a competitive edge by providing measurable value,” said Tom Fedro, president, Paragon Software. “Our full-featured HDM 15 IT Essentials Toolkit was designed with that idea in mind, delivering a comprehensive feature set in a single solution with a simple user interface and streamlined pricing. The result is a powerful combination for our partners and their customers.“