VMware Solution Brief: V-locity
VMware just published a partner solution brief (2-pager) for V-locity, the first ever VMware Ready certified virtual disk optimizer. If you're an IT professional investigating virtual disk I/O optimization, we hope this provides a quick overview of the benefits from eliminating fragmentation in Windows guest VMs on VMware platforms. Read it here: VMware Solution [...]
We’re here all week! Stop by our booth at WPC
Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) is starting today in Los Angeles. It is, per Microsoft, attracting over 12,000 partners (VARs, MSPs, consultants, ISVs) during the course of the week. We have a booth in the expo hall, so if you are a current Diskeeper Corp partner or interested in becoming one, [...]
Poor Man’s Defrag For Linux?
With significant engineering talent focused on boot/prefetch optimization over the last decade, we've done thousands of hours of research on the subject. Early last decade, Diskeeper Corp did a great deal of work with Microsoft with regard to "sequencing" files for the prefetch technology built in to Windows XP and above. [...]
Optimizing Virtual Platform Disk Performance (ESX)
Overview The intensified demand for IT network efficiency and lower operating costs has been driving the phenomenal growth of virtualization in the past decade, with no signs of slowing. At present, many corporations run more virtualized servers than physical servers. While virtualization provides opportunity for consolidation and better hardware utilization, [...]
The Summer Blockbuster Sequel: V-locity 3.0
Coming Soon: V-locity 3.0 (virtual platform optimizer) has some fantastic new features in it we're sure you’ll like, including: +Full Support for ESXi Server (in addition to existing support for ESX and Hyper-V) +Reduced installation effort for ESX Servers (no installation on Host) +New CogniSAN technology (for storage area networks) +New [...]
Diskeeper 2011 (build 956) Update
Here is a list of the fixes and new features of the latest Diskeeper 2011 build. Fixes: Fixed an incorrect warning in the Performance Report. If a volume is smaller than 2GB (e.g. a recovery partition), on which IntelliWrite may not be enabled, this is not flagged in the Performance Report [...]
Congratulations Mike Topping, Network Engineer from Metro Datacom!
Mike sent us his Diskeeper 2011 Disk Performance Report showing 322,347 Disk Access I/Os saved! Mike is the winner of the drawing for the $100 American Express gift card!
Paying It Forward
Very good friends of Colleen (a member of the advisory board) and I, John and Christine Iasiuolo created a fantastic charity, The Outlook Foundation. Tasked with re-purposing computers for children from underprivileged areas and children of our brave military personnel, they ask only one thing, pay it forward. You can watch Las [...]
Major Performance Improvement after Running Diskeeper on DFS server
“We are now running Diskeeper 2011 EnterpriseServer on our a DFS server which houses all our corporate documents. This server has about 500GB of files and was heavily fragmented prior to installing Diskeeper. “Users were experiencing latency issues, login delays (roaming profiles) and sometimes apps would freeze upon saving to [...]
Instant Defrag Makes JAWS Software 5 Times More Accessible
"I am a blind reseller and consultant for people with special needs/vision impaired who use JAWS, the Windows screen reading software. I have been very pleasantly surprised with the new version 2011 of Diskeeper. It works great with our screen reading technology!Diskeeper’s Instant Defrag makes JAWS as much as 5 [...]
V-locity 3.0 Field Testers Needed
We're looking for some IT professionals interested in getting a first look at some new technology. Testing will start in a few weeks and we have a few openings left that we need to fill. If you have a virtualization platform (e.g. Hyper-V, ESXi, XenServer, et al.) or a SAN (e.g. EMC, [...]
Faster File Access Using Diskeeper on SAN
When I asked Patrick Blanche, of Hobbs+Black Architects, whether he saw good results from his use of Diskeeper, this is what he said: “Good results? … you mean GREAT right! Allow me to explain, We are an architectural business and work with many small interrelated files that can get highly [...]
iPad winners from the Diskeeper 2011 Field Test get their new Toy
This year we had a raffle to reward our field testers for all the help they provide in qualifying our products for release. The raffle was for an iPad (1.0). The day we were going to purchase and ship the iPad to the winners, Apple announced the iPad 2. We asked the [...]
New Diskeeper 2011 Update (15.0.954)
There's a new build update of Diskeeper 2011. You can get it from your account page (best for large scale distribution), or simply update from within Diskeeper 2011 console (best for single installations): Here's a list of the fixes in this update: 1. Fixed a memory leak in the Diskeeper service [...]
Fragmentation and Data Corruption
Diskeeper (data performance for physical systems) and V-locity (optimization for virtual systems) are designed to deliver performance, reliability, longer life and energy savings. Increased performance and saved energy from our software are relatively easy to empirically test and validate. Longer life is a matter of minimizing wear and tear on hard drives (MTTF) and [...]