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In the beginning…

A long time ago in a server room far, far away there was the weekend effort of IT to "backup, reformat, restore". Alternatively one could "squeeze" all the data to the front of the disk/volume after taking the volume offline and running special utilities. This [...]

2022-01-19T19:58:10-05:00General|0 Comments

What is Newskeeper?

Newskeeper is a monthly/bi-monthly print magazine published by Diskeeper Corporation. We mail it out to enterprise customers quite regularly.   It contains technical info and articles that help IT professionals better understand and use our solutions. A highlight in this issue is an interview with the Technical [...]

2022-01-19T20:32:09-05:00General|0 Comments

Not Just Another Pretty Sticker:

The current issue of Redmond Mag has an 18 page pullout from Microsoft about the value of their Windows Server certification program. In it is a highlight about the benefits we've seen by routinely certifying Diskeeper. Achieving certification certainly results in a better experience for customers.  [...]

2009-05-14T12:15:00-04:00General|0 Comments

Move over Comma Separated Values, there’s a new acronym in town

John Savill (formerly of NTFAQ.com) and currently of Windows IT Pro's "FAQ for Windows" just added a new topic on defragmenting [link is gone now - was windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/102013/q-do-any-third-party-disk-defragmentation-tools-support-cluster-shared-volumes-csvs] Clustered Shared Volumes (CSV). As if IT doesn't have enough 3-letter acronyms already, CSV is a major feature [...]

2022-01-28T17:37:55-05:00General|0 Comments

Diskeeper Administrator 2009 Update

The following changes are included in the new Diskeeper Administrator 2009 incremental. Most are changes to address either tech support issues (bugs or otherwise) or internally found errors. Like the Diskeeper "defragmenter editions", the update will be released in all supported languages over the next [...]

2009-04-21T10:24:00-04:00General|2 Comments

New White Paper From Windows IT Pro

Check out the new study done by IT guru David Chernicoff on the "Impact of Fragmentation on Servers" here. It is also posted on SlideShare here. Testing was done on various server-based applications such as file hosting, SQL, Exchange, virtual machines, and more, with performance [...]

2009-04-10T10:25:00-04:00General|0 Comments

New Diskeeper 2009 Update (13.0.844)

Below is a list of what's new in the latest Diskeeper update. We'll be rolling out this update (you'll be notified from the Check For Updates feature in Diskeeper) over the next couple of weeks, starting with the English language updates first. Shortly thereafter you'll [...]

2009-04-07T10:21:00-04:00General|0 Comments