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 [...]
Find out (a little bit) more here at Microsoft's Virtualization Partner site.
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 [...]
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. [...]
Diskeeper has a booth at both the Microsoft Tech Ed trade show this week in Los Angeles, and the Interop show next week in Las Vegas. If you are attending, stop by and pick up a cool comic book, some software, and maybe even catch [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Enough dry blogs now behind me, I thought I'd entertain a more informal post. Can data centralization create euphoria? If Philip K. Dick can ask if androids dream of electric sheep I feel I'm entitled, right or wrong, to ask the above question - well [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]