Wyle Selected Paragon for Atlantis’ Last Space Flight

Paragon Software Group reached a
milestone in the company’s brief history as it soared into the heavens on the
final flight of America’s
Space Shuttle Atlantis.

Selected by NASA’s Prime Bioastronautics contractor,
Wyle, Paragon’s backup and disaster recovery software, Hard Disk Manager (HDM)
11 Professional now orbits the Earth on the International Space Station. HDM 11
serves as the primary backup and recovery software for the latest generation
Ultrasound system also launched on Atlantis.

The International Space Station’s primary goal is to provide
a platform for scientific research. Human subject research is managed by Wyle
as part of the Bioastronautics Contract. Certification of the next generation
ultrasound required being able to restore the new ultrasound
system to its launch configuration. Lockheed Martin, one of the subcontractors
operating with Wyle, the prime contractor on the Bioastronautics Contract,
needed a recovery solution that could meet its stringent specifications. As is
often the case with space-related operations, a customized software solution
was needed.

"At Paragon, we provide our clients with superior
customer service regardless of where they are, now that extends to outer space,"
said Tom Fedro, president of Paragon Software Group. "It was important to
Wyle and Lockheed Martin to ensure that the astronauts operating on the Space
Station could quickly and easily restore their systems back to an operable
state – with the customized version of Hard Disk Manager, they can recover in a
matter of minutes without any additional tools." Paragon developed a
custom-restore script that automated the system restore process via a
USB-bootable flash drive with the click of a button."

Bioastronautics personnel evaluated several back-up and
recovery tools. Of the tools available Paragon’s HDM 11 came closest to meeting
the project’s needs. The Paragon team stepped in to close the gap, providing a
customized solution which minimized user interaction.

HDM 11 Server provides a complete data backup and disaster
recovery solution. A virtual add-on component is available for virtual
environments. Both versions offer the ability to perform bare-metal restores,
file-level recovery, includes data wiping algorithms, and automatic
partition alignment. Additionally, HDM 11 Server enables data backup or
migration of an active server with locked volumes, files or folders.