Paragon Protect & Restore Software

Paragon Software Group (PSG) announced the launch of Paragon Protect & Restore (PPR), featuring centralized remote management of physical and VMs.

The software provides agentless backup of virtual servers and workstations through an integration with vSphere (Hyper-V coming soon). PPR additionally supports agent-based backup of physical Windows machines and other hypervisor clients.

"PPR is highly scalable from 1 to 1,000s of servers and perfect for businesses backing up in a virtual, physical or mixed environment," said Tom Fedro, president of PSG. "Our goal was to develop a backup and DR solution that offers comprehensive data protection, a fast recovery process and excellent technical support, all delivered at a reasonable price point; early adopters of the product are telling us we succeeded."

"We are particularly excited for our channel partners, as Paragon Protect & Restore will allow them to engage larger companies, get more services involved, and maximize their profits by taking advantage of Paragon’s aggressive reseller discounts," adds Daniel Eickhoff, director of channel sales at PSG.

Key Paragon Protect & Restore features:

Integrates with hypervisors (VMware ESX now, Hyper-V with next version) allowing agentless backup, replication and fast restore of client machines in seconds
Provides agent-based option to safeguard physical machines and other hypervisor clients
Offers fast incremental backups and flexible scheduling options
Offers primary local storage and secondary archive storage (local, network storage and SFTP/FTP currently available – Amazon and other cloud storage options coming soon) via a two-tier backup storage infrastructure
Provides detailed reporting and monitoring views

Paragon Protect & Restore comes with Paragon’s Adaptive Restore, which supports recovery to different hardware, also known as hardware-independent restore (HIR). Further, PPR incorporates Paragon’s UFSD technology, which enables the software to be aware of what type of data resides inside of backup images and for fast access to granular recovery options.

Backups of physical and VMs can be managed from multiple management consoles, or a central location. The product’s distributed architecture allows flexible scalability and accommodates environments of different sizes and configurations. A unified installation package includes all components of the product, which can be installed all on one machine, or be deployed across several machines from the management console, according to needs.

Additional features scheduled for upcoming releases include Hyper-V support, De-Dupe and Granular Recovery for Exchange.