Jim Harrison

Jim Harrison has a very broad sales and account management background, having previously been employed by various international companies in both senior sales and customer service roles. He joined O&O Software in March, 2006 in a sales and localization capacity, and having quickly recognized the potential for O&O Software worldwide, he was appointed Director of Sales International in 2008. Jim and his team focus on developing long-term, strategic partnerships in order to bring the O&O brand and product range to more and more international markets. Developing primarily the European, North American and Asian markets, his aim is quite clear: to have an O&O product installed on every computer, worldwide!

Changed your PC Hardware? Transfer the old PC over with O&O DiskImage!

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With O&O DiskImage you can make a backup or image of entire computers, single drives or files during running operations. By restoring such an image or backup later, a user has their normal and familiar working environment back again in a short space of time. The Machine Independent Restoration enables a system restoration onto machines with different hardware setups. This means a system image or a clone cannot only be restored onto Server and Desktop PCs with identical hardware, but also onto hardware where the processor or motherboard has been changed, for instance. Read more…

O&O Defrag Server also optimizes data images

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With O&O Defrag you can make your Windows substantially quicker. If you work on computers a lot, then slow system and program starts, endless rendering and memory processes, or even system crashes when playing can quickly ruin your enjoyment. Defragmenting your PC can hugely accelerate the speed you can work on your PC. When you defragment, those files fragmented across the hard disk are logically rearranged so that files can be quickly recognized and processed by the hardware. Performance gains of up to 100% are not uncommon!

But did you also know that O&O Defrag can play a crucial role in your backup and system imaging strategy? Read on to see how O&O Defrag helped a customer avoid having to totally revamp their company backup strategy.

O&O Defrag accelerates Backups and System Images

It’s acknowledged as an open issue by vendors of backup software that fragmented disks can cause the actual backup or image to fail and with it the Checksum Test. The reason for that is because fragmented files make this process excruciatingly slow which may lead to a corrupted backup.

In the case of a disk failure a corrupted backup might even be worse since it could lead to a complete data loss. That is exactly why a regular defragmentation of your disks is so important for your data backups and images.

O&O Defrag Server Edition optimizes SMI’s Backup Performance

Our customer SMI is doing a backup of their system on a daily basis. These backups, sometimes up to 400 GB, go to a disk during the night time and then to tape during the day.  Thanks to O&O Defrag Server Edition they have not only optimized the actual performance of their servers but have also been able to retain their existing backup strategy, the changing of which would have resulted in substantial costs and time issues.

„O&O Software saved us from having to completely rethink our backup strategy. We tried many products, but only O&O Defrag Server is able to defrag these enormous, sometimes 400 GB files. All other products we tried simply couldn‘t do it, even though we have more than doubled the disk space available, and several GB of RAM. Many of them didn‘t even try, they simply failed.“

You can read the whole SMI success story right here.

Try or buy O&O Defrag for speed and security 

Visit our website or send us an e-mail to sales@oo-software.com and we will help you get your PCs and servers running like new again and secure your data backups and images – all with one product!

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Are you planning to replace your old XP machines? We make it easy for you

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On the 8th April 2014, Microsoft will cease all support for customers with Windows XP installed. For XP users this means no more security patches, even for newly-discovered Trojans, viren etc – an untenable situation for most XP owners. As of the end of 2012, 41% of PC users were still using XP. That represents a massive number of customers who very soon will be forced to consider upgrading to a newer Windows version. Many will simply replace their very old hardware. Read more…

O&O DiskImage rebuilds a server after a crash!

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Have you lost data already this year?

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It is vital for all companies that they save their electronic data. If it is lost, it is not just customer data or financial data that go, but business relationships are also destroyed. Would you like to have to ask your customers or suppliers again for their data? And at the same time be forced to confess that you were sadly not careful enough with use of their data? This is certainly not what your business partners want to hear, and they would justifiably reconsider their relationship with you, or simply terminate it.

So in fact the question should really be: why would I not need O&O DiskImage? Unless a company really saves no data electronically, then there is no answer to this question! And the O&O DiskImage story does not end there. Read on to find out why our customer Coffeesmiths in the United States has opted for O&O over the competition, and how O&O DiskImage came to their rescue!

O&O DiskImage rebuilds Servers after a crash

Creating images of entire servers and desktops and backups of important files is now one of the standard measures currently taken by administrators to protect their data and system configurations. O&O DiskImage takes this once step further by providing features that make the job of an Administrator significantly easier. Scripting, for example, turned out to be exactly what Coffeesmiths were looking for:

“The scripting functions within DI allow me to copy the files from week to week before the full weekly image is created.”

Coffeesmiths found out the hard way just why O&O DiskImage is becoming the de facto choice for many small to medium-sized businesses. The ability to restore an entire system or server, including the operating system, not only gets a business back up and running quickly to avoid downtime but also means that a company does not have to purchase replacement hardware after a crash.

Why not let our customer convince you!

Coffesmiths has three point-of-sale computers, one in each location, and needed a backup solution that could secure the data from each computer to an external server held offsite at their business HQ. Not only did they need this process to be automated and simple, but they also needed the ability to backup separate weekly data in separate directories.

“I have used DI to rebuild my server after a crash as well as pull off old files. The ability to mount an image as a drive is useful in data recovery as well.” You can read the success story from Coffeesmiths in its entirety right here!

Try or buy O&O DiskImage

If you would like to test or purchase O&O DiskImage then simply visit our website or send us an e-mail – we are always delighted to help!  O&O DiskImage is also a main component of O&O Complete Protection, our data protection solution for the entire lifecycle of your IT environment!

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“Prism” and data protection: Your questions answered

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Concerned customers Recent world events have focused everyone very sharply on the topic of data security. I refer here to the “Prism” program from the NSA in the USA. Revelations regarding the interception and reading of private mails, phone calls and videos shocked the general public. It was then revealed that this practice had also … Read more