New V-locity White Paper
Optimizing the disks of virtual platforms is an absolute must for performance. Typically even more so than on physical platforms. Topix Technologies, an IT Analyst group out of Paris, France recent completed a study about the effects of fragmentation on the modern virtual infrastructure. They used V-locity to restore performance [...]
Diskeeper 2010 “Beta” to start next week
We're looking for some current Diskeeper customers that are interested in getting a first look at a new technology breakthrough - in Diskeeper 2010. The beta test will start next week, and we have about 50 openings left that we need to fill. If you are a current customer and are [...]
Supporting Windows 7 (and Server 2008r2)
Diskeeper 2009 and HyperFast fully support Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008r2, and have since we released them back in December 2008. V-locity also fully supports the new Windows platforms. That said, the next major release of Diskeeper (coming soon) will also take advantage of new functionality in Windows 7. Windows 7 allows for [...]
Our thanks to the brave firefighters fighting the LA fires!
While the ongoing LA area fire is not a threat to the Diskeeper Corporation building, many of our employees live in the areas where the fire is a concern. Here are a few pics taken this past weekend from the backyard of an employee who lives in the foothills of Angeles Crest: [...]
Sneak Peek Testers needed
We're looking for some current Diskeeper customers that are interested in getting a first look at a new technology breakthrough. The preview will start in a few weeks and we have a few openings left that we need to fill. We're eager to get this new technology on the market [...]
Removing Fragmentation? SOUNDS good to me
I found this Diskeeper Log interesting. One of our Account Managers recently installed voice recognition/dictation software (on August 19). If you follow the daily log reports, you can see the dramatic difference in the daily number of fragments eliminated. Diskeeper went from averaging 3000 fragments eliminated per day to 15,000! Eliminating fragmentation to get the [...]
WINstant On (i.e. “Instant on” for Windows)
We posted a press release today regarding a new software innovation called HyperBoot(tm). This is a major R&D project we've been working on for some time. HyperBoot is designed to do one thing - boot up (cold boot) an HDD-based Windows system in record time. The performance results of our development effort on this project are far better [...]
96% of something?
More future GUI charts with the "colonel's secret recipe" scratched out:
SAN defrag
Storage Area Networks (SANs) are becoming increasingly more common. A few years ago "SAN" was an acronym that rarely made it out of the lexicon of IT Storage Admins at 1000s+ employee multinationals. In more recent years the SAN IHV/ISVs have greatly simplified and reduced the installation, maintenance, technical effort, and acquisition costs. It's [...]
Optimum file-write performance: Consolidating free space.
Early next week we'll publish a new white paper that covers 21 technical points to consider when evaluating a disk optimization solution. While it is focused on IT professionals evaluating Diskeeper for business desktops/laptops, many of the points apply to all users. Test results regarding one such universal consideration is provided below: Often overlooked, [...]
the times they are a changin’
Here is a sample screenshot from an upcoming new Diskeeper release: This graph works like the InvisiTasking graph (updates a measurement every second), but I can't tell you what it's measuring just yet (had to scratch that part out). You won't have to wait much longer though...
Determining If You Need To Perform a Boot-Time Defragmentation
When installing Diskeeper, many users will schedule a boot-time defragmentation immediately after running the product. Even though a boot-time fragmentation is safe, in many instances, this is not necessary and a boot-time defragmentation will require the computer to be restarted to complete the process. A user should first determine if [...]
Hangin’ out with Microsoft
Last week we were in New Orleans at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference. Diskeeper Corporation staff met with numerous Microsoft PMs and executives regarding existing and future partnership opportunities. Derek De Vette, who overseas partner relations here at Diskeeper Coporation, met with Becky Lymberis, Senior Marketing Manager, Solutions Marketing. With Small Business Servers [...]
2010, something’s going to happen….
The next evolutionary step for defragmenters is coming.
Undelete Tips and Tricks – Setting up “versioning” for new file types
As a filter driver, Undelete captures everything (except those files/file types explicitly excluded). One of the advanced features of Undelete is the ability to organize previous versions of Microsoft office files into a common recovery location and remove all the wacky characters (~$, .wrl, etc...) normally associated with temp and [...]