Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty – Partition Manager Server

Partition Manager Server™ Provides Disk Maintenance for Realty Firm While Minimizing Operational Downtime 

Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty (SSIR) is a full service luxury real estate company with four divisions: Residential, Commercial, New Homes, and Auctions. The company’s vision is to leverage a unique combination of local and global resources to effectively bring together buyers and sellers from around the globe. 

Supporting this vision requires 24/7 network communications and effective network management between SSIR’s 6 geographically-dispersed offices. With multiple servers, over 100 fixed workstations, and 300 laptops, SSIR IT managers are chartered with ensuring over 400 workers are properly armed with working software and hardware platforms 24 hours a day 7 days a week. 

One of SSIR’s important and recent hardware management tasks included the need to resize dynamic disk partitions on a live (production) server running Microsoft Exchange 2007. Before purchasing Paragon Partition Manager Server, Dan Gentile, SSIR’s Director of Information 

Technology was utilizing standard operating system disk tools that required significant server downtime, not to mention specific expertise to learn and use. Prior to learning of Paragon, Dan was not able to find another company with software that could accomplish this task while minimizing downtime, critical to his 7-day-a-week operations. Dan was able to perform these operations in non-peak hours causing little to no disruption of service to his users. 

Throughout the qualification and testing process, Dan was pleasantly surprised, not only at how Paragon provided such a strong software solution, but also the personal technical support he received: “When I got the software and booted into it the first time, I had a question. After a quick call to Paragon’s Support team, they had me up and running in minutes. When I called in, 

I didn’t expect to get a live person on the phone, but to my surprise, there was someone there to help me – first class support all around, from the account exec, to the support engineers.” 

“Paragon enabled me to resize partitions quickly, without errors and with negligible downtime” – Dan Gentile, IT Director, SSIR