Paragon Launching Protect and Restore Software

Paragon
Software Group announced the launch of Paragon
Protect and Restore, 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). It supports agent-based backup of
physical Windows machines and other hypervisor clients.

"PPR is highly scalable from one
to thousnds of servers and perfect for businesses backing up in a
virtual, physical or mixed environment," said Tom Fedro,
president of Paragon. "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 Paragon.

Protect and Restore
features:

• Integrates with hypervisors (VMware ESX
  now, Hyper-V with next version) allowing agentless backup,
  replication and restore of client machines in seconds.

• Provides agent-based option to
  safeguard physical machines and other hypervisor clients

• Offers incremental backups and
  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

The software comes with Paragon’s
Adaptive Restore, which supports recovery to different
hardware, also known as hardware-independent restore. 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.