Paragon Software Case Study Partition Manager For Datacenters & Hosting Providers
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The document discusses the benefits of repartitioning Windows servers for data centers and hosting providers, highlighting that it maximizes disk space utilization and generates new revenue streams. It emphasizes the efficiency and cost savings of using partition manager technology to manage server storage needs, especially for businesses with multiple servers. Paragon Software's partition manager is presented as a solution that allows organizations to quickly and remotely repartition servers, significantly reducing downtime and technician efforts.
Paragon Software Case Study Partition Manager For Datacenters & Hosting Providers
- 1. Storage Lifecycle Management Solutions for Data Centers & Hosting Providers Benefits of Repartitioning Your Windows Servers Repartitioning servers maximizes disk space, provides new revenue DID YOU KNOW and considerable savings 79% of surveyed business Top-10 U.S. hosting providers use Partition Manager technology professionals 10 Server to better manage their customers’ dedicated report 10% annual storage servers; new revenue streams have resulted from growth rates. added service level agreement options. 35% of them will monitor Large corporations and SMBs use Partition Manager storage utilization and 32% will Server to efficiently manage their often-changing needs reclaim unused storage space. for server HDD space. This extends the life cycle of Source: InformationWeek their existing servers and reduces the need to buy (Aug 2009) additional storage. ENTERPRISE DATA CENTERS WHEN TO REPARTITION Many companies faced with new, unbudgeted The most common reasons for requirements for expanded storage find that repartitioning repartitioning are: increase existing servers is a preferred solution over buying system partitions (C: drive), additional hardware. Typically repartitioning is a long minimum downtime, translates into significant monetary redistribute free space between manual process involving significant system downtime in savings and more efficient use of their already stretched partitions or merge two adjacent which an IT technician spends hours preparing the server, resources. partitions, and prepare a server taking the data off the server, reformatting the drives, HOSTING PROVIDERS & ISPs for dual OS use or virtualization. resizing the partitions, and then rebuilding the OS and Paragon Partition Manager is also a great solution for applications and finally restoring the data. An organization hosting providers who support SMB clients in dedicated PARTITION MANAGER 10 with 50 servers can easily spend 100 hours or more on this and shared server models. Typically needing to repartition SERVER LETS YOU... IT task. their servers more than any other type of organization, Perform drive partitioning Paragon Software Group helps organizations with data using Partition Manager eases the impact to operations, operations of any complexity centers consisting of multiple Windows servers save time saves costs and technician time, and can even create a Increase or decrease system and money by allowing them to repartition the systems revenue stream through a new service offering. Some of partition size (C: drive) automatically and simultaneously through remote, the largest hosting providers in the U.S. have worked with Redistribute free space centralized operations. The group of 50 aforementioned Paragon to implement Partition Manager Server in their between partitions or merge servers can now be repartitioned in an hour’s time; the network. two adjacent partitions technician can set up an automated schedule via If you anticipate repartitioning 10+ servers within the Prepare server for dual OS or customizable scripts to do the job unattended. next 12 months, contact Paragon Software for a product virtualization environments Paragon clients include Fortune 1000 companies with demonstration: sales@paragon-software.com. Repartition servers remotely thousands of servers in data centers across the country, Image partitions or entire drives as well as universities, state and local government Migrate servers to new agencies and the military. For all of them, being able to hardware/larger drives repartition multiple servers quickly and reliably, with 15615 Alton Parkway, Suite 405 Backup/restore partitions or Irvine, CA 92618 1-888-347-5462 Toll Free entire drives www.paragon-software.com 1-949-271-6411 Fax