Advantage Federal Credit Union - Case Study HDM

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When our server went down, theability to be able to restore an im-age to dissimilar hardware as atemporary fix was amazing. You

people really know your productSesto Colilli, AFCU

Infor- mation

Advantage Federal Credit Union has

been providing banking and financial ser-

vices to the Rochester, New York areasince 1931. With five branches in New York,

and a shared banking network of over 3,300

locations across the country, AFCU encoun-

ters all the daily challenges that a major fi-

nancial institution faces regarding the secu-

rity of their financial data.

The Systems Administrator, Sesto Colliliand his team, are charged with ensuring thesecurity of over 15,000credit union mem-

bers financial data. We are a financial in-

stitution and offer a lot of services for ourmembers. One part is in home banking, theserver that handles home banking actuallyresides here. Being able to keep that serveronline 24/7 is crucial for our business, saidSesto.

Sesto originally purchased Paragons HardDisk Manager for a workstation and wantedthe same disk management features for hisservers. Paragon offered the only corporatelevel solution that included bootable media.

Paragon was the only choice if I wanted tomake a quick image of a server. Its an ex-

tremely well written program, stated Sesto

In addition to Paragons Hard Disk Man-ager, AFCU also utilizes Drive Backup 10Server for its superior performance fea-tures, said Sesto, The ability to be able touse the GUI interface from a boot CD ispretty amazing. The product launches andworks without Windows. The user interfacefrom the bootable media by far exceedsyour competitors products.

Our focus on business continuity is a

commitment to ensure that your completesystems, settings, and data files are pro-tected 24-7. Both Hard Disk Manager andDrive Backup 10 Server provide unmatcheflexibility and peace of mind.

IT ProblemHighly regulated, dataintensive, always-onfinancial institutions de-mand data protection, dis-aster recovery and com-plete business continuity. .

SolutionAFCU chose Paragonsdata protection solutionincorporatingdisk-to-disk backup andrecovery software. Sectorlevel images of entireservers, protected operat-ing systems, settings andfiles, and compressedarchives optimized theirstorage space andachieved AFCUs optimalrecovery time objectives.

Industry Facts58% of small organiza-tions and 64% of largeorganizations can with-stand 4 hours or less ofdowntime before an inter-ruption results in financialloss or has a significantoperational impact.

Paragon Software Group15615 Alton Parkway,Suite 400

Irvine, CA [email protected]

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Paragon Software Enhances Data Security forAdvantage Federal Credit Union

Key Product Differentiators:

Simplified, cost effective dataprotection

Bootable CD without runningWindows

Automated set-and-forgetscheduling

Restores to dissimilar hardware
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS :

Supported Operating Systems Windows 7 (32/64-bit) Supported Operating Systems Windows 7 (32/64-bit) Windows Vista (32/64-bit) Windows XP Professional (32/64-bit) Windows XP Home Windows 2000 Professional SP4 Windows Server 2000 Family SP4 Windows Server 2003 Family Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition Windows Small Business Server 2003 Windows Storage Server 2003 Windows Server 2008 (32/64 Bit) Windows Server 2008 R2

Supported Hard Drives andRemovable Media

Parallel ATA (IDE) HDD Serial ATA (SATA) HDD External SATA (eSATA) HDD SCSI HDD All levels of SCSI, IDE and SATA RAIDcontrollers RAID support (hardware / software) CD-R/RW DVD Blu-Ray USB 1.x/2.0 and IEEE 1394 (FireWire)Devices PC card storage devices

Supported File Systems NTFS (v1.2, v3.0, v3.1) FAT16

FAT32 Linux Ext2FS Linux Ext3FS Linux Ext4FS Linux Swap Apple HFS+ Other file systems(in the sector-by-sector mode)

Minimum RecommendedEnvironment

CPU: Intel Pentium or compatible,300 MHz or higher processor

RAM: At least 128 MB (256 MB orgreater recommended)

Disk space: 120 Mb Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher

Paragon Software Group

15615 Alton Parkway,Suite 400Irvine, CA 92618Tel. 1.888.347.5462Fax: [email protected]

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Key Features

Create and Resize

PartitionsEasily create partitions, merge and resize them directly on t

Disk Map using drag-and-drop techniques.

Copy and Migrate to Dif-

ferent hardwareEasily clone an existing drive or partition to a new one - eve

to different hardware and make your OS start up after unsuc

cessful migration with 3rd

party tools.

Several Backup &

Recovery Features

Sector and file level backups with differential or incremental

updates as well as an exclusive file complement. Backup lo

mounted/un-mounted partitions, external storages, CD/DVD

Blu-ray discs, network shares, FTP servers as well as the s

cured hidden partition (Backup Capsule).

NTFS and FAT

Defragmenting27 defragmentation strategies, MFT defragmenting and

shrinking, low free space defragmenting (less than 1% of th

free space required).

Paragon Alignment Tool

(PAT)

Align partitions to physical disk sectors and boost perform-

ance of a hard disks up to 3 times

Paragon Boot Manager Easily manage several operating systems on one computer

Smart Driver Injector Makes the process of adding drivers smooth and easy

Live ImagingProtect Windows systems online with Microsoft VolumeShadow Copy Service (MS VSS) or Paragon Hot Processin

Selective RestoreEasily extract files and folders from a backup image throughthe Restore Wizard without restoring an entire image

Hard Disk Manager 2010 ServerFeatures at a Glance
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