Partition Manager Server Case Study Stirling Sotheby International Realty

Storage Lifecycle Management Solutions for Real Estate Offices Partition Manager 9.0 Server™ Provides Disk Maintenance BUSINESS PROBLEM IT Managers frequenty deal with for Realty Firm While Minimizing Operational Downtime issues of “how and where” to store Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty (SSIR) is a their company’s operations data, full service luxury real estate company based in including backup copies. New data Central Florida. creation means an increased demand for storage. As a result, IT SSIR purchased Paragon Partition Manager 9.0 managers must deal with increased Server for disk maintenance operations on a Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server. strain on their network servers, leading to decreased performance. “Paragon enabled me to resize partitions quickly, without errors and with negligible downtime” - Dan Gentile, IT Director, SSIR DID YOU KNOW? Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty (SSIR) is a full service was not able to find another company with software that could ...that partitioning hard disk drives luxury real estate company with four divisions: Residential, accomplish this task while minimizing downtime, critical to his (HDDs) can help to better segment Commercial, New Homes, and Auctions. The company’s vision 7-day-a-week operations. and optimize your storage space? is to leverage a unique combination of local and global resources Dan says, “Paragon Partition Manager 9.0 Server enabled ...that partitioning HDDs can to effectively bring together buyers and sellers from around the me to resize partitions quickly and without errors on a production improve system performance? globe. level server, with a negligible amount of downtime.” Dan was Supporting this vision requires 24/7 network communications able to perform these operations in non-peak hours causing little and effective network management between SSIR’s 6 to no disruption of service to his users. geographically-dispersed offices. With multiple servers, over Throughout the qualification and testing process, Dan was SOLUTION 100 fixed workstations, and 300 laptops, SSIR IT managers are pleasantly surprised, not only at how Paragon provided such a Proper management of a chartered with ensuring over 400 workers are properly armed strong software solution, but also the personal technical support company’s servers and with working software and hardware platforms 24 hours a day 7 he received: “When I got the software and booted into it the first maintenance of their HDDs is days a week. time, I had a question. After a quick call to Paragon’s Support essential. Disk partitioning software One of SSIR’s important and recent hardware management team, they had me up and running in minutes. When I called in, is a key component of your HDD tasks included the need to resize dynamic disk partitions on a I didn’t expect to get a live person on the phone, but to my management tool set. As your live (production) server running Microsoft Exchange 2007. surprise, there was someone there to help me - first class support storage needs grow, partitioning Before purchasing Paragon Partition Manager 9.0 Server all around, from the account exec, to the support engineers.” utilities provide multiple ways to software, Dan Gentile, SSIR’s Director of Information optimize and restructure your Technology was utilizing standard operating system disk tools current configuration. If your that required significant server downtime, not to mention specific Operating System is low on free expertise to learn and use. Prior to learning of Paragon, Dan space, you can reallocate space from an adjacent partition to 15615 Alton Parkway, Suite 405 Irvine, CA 92618 improve performance. 1-888-347-5462 Toll Free www.paragon-software.com 1-949-271-6411 Fax

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