We have numerous partners and alliances in the Solid State drive (SSD) space that we interact with regularly. Conversations in related meetings with those allies continues to revolve around the same issue, overcoming performance bottle necks at the storage level. In attacking this problem to [...]
There's a new build of Diskeeper 2010 available that includes the following fixes: Performance improvements in InvisiTasking related to 8+ core systems and eliminating unnecessary context switching. Fixed I-FAAST measurement that would fail on some busy systems and consequently keep getting rescheduled. Improved defragmentation process [...]
[et_pb_section fb_built="1" admin_label="section" _builder_version="3.22.3"][et_pb_row admin_label="row" _builder_version="3.22.3" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="3.0.47"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" _builder_version="3.22.7" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat"]Joe Marion is founder and Principal of Healthcare Integration Strategies, specializing in the integration of imaging technologies with the overall healthcare IT landscape. His blog (at Healthcare Informatics) covers challenges [...]
I had a test run here internally in order to make a point about what does, or more specifically "does not", happen when you VMotion/SVMotion a Windows Guest OS (GOS). We wanted to demonstrate that, while VMware is copying the VM to another host/storage, it does nothing about the [...]
Apparently some of the staff at our UK office have too much time on their hands, and filmed a fun holiday short. Click on the image to see Santa and a 6'7" elf and friends defragment X-Mas, load up the sleigh, and then celebrate with [...]
Before I cover considerations and recommended configurations in thin provisioned storage environments it’s important to revisit why defragmentation of Windows operating systems is so important in a virtualized machine and/or virtualized storage environment. The problem is that fragmented data in a local disk file system, [...]
If you're a Windows Home Server enthusiast, you've no doubt heard the unfortunate news that Drive Extender (DE) is being removed from the upcoming new version of WHS (codename Vail). DEv2 was, by all accounts, an ambitious project, designed to solve many storage problems for [...]
We didn't win the 2010 Windows IT Pro Editor's Choice for Best System Utility this year (we won last year). While we lost out to a couple consumer/small-biz software suites, we're the only awarded enterprise system performance solution of the group (a group that encompasses various non-competitive [...]
Windows IT Pro recently undertook a survey of users who have applied Diskeeper across their network. The purpose was to uncover the benefits achieved from this solution. It covers points such as... Increased hardware life, and reduction in unnecessary I/O: Improved system stability and less crashes: [...]
As a long term VMware Premier Technology Alliance Partner, we're excited to now announce that V-locity has, after passing stringent testing, been certified by VMware as VMware Ready. V-locity is the first and only certified solution for virtual disk I/O optimization. You can see the product listed [...]