Top-10 U.S. hosting providers use Partition Manager 10 Server to better manage their customers’ dedicated servers; new revenue streams have resulted from added service level agreement options.

1. Storage Lifecycle Management Solutions
for Data Centers & Hosting Providers
Benefits of Repartitioning Your Windows Servers
Repartitioning servers maximizes disk space, provides new revenue
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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
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with 50 servers can easily spend 100 hours or more on this and shared server models. Typically needing to repartition
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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
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hardware/larger drives
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