Condusiv Technologies Blog

Eric Lundquist of eWEEK is well known for pushing past the mainstream hype of new technology and bringing the reality of what companies are, or need to be, doing today. I found his insight into 2009 quite spot on, you can read it here. On his third point: squeezing every [...]

The Apacer-led announcement about the SSD+ Optimizer release last week was attended by almost 50 media from the Asia Pacific regions and nearly 200 of Apacer's customers (manufacturers of PCs, hand-held computers, etc....). Diskeeper and Apacer presented both business and technical presentations and field questions for several hours. One handout [...]

We've been heavily involved in solid state storage performance and reliability technology for some time - we're convinced it is the future of high-performance storage. Recent announcements by Baidu and Google to "go SSD" on servers are evidence of enterprise commitment to NAND Flash. And as great as the hardware [...]

“A group of MVPs have been discussing disk wiping. Could you please provide more details of exactly how your wipe is performed and how it meets NSA/DOD standards?” Undelete 2009 uses the following DoD overwrite patterns: 1. Bit pattern #1 = Any Bit Pattern, such as ‘00110101’ 2. Bit Pattern [...]

The title is about a couple of related formulas that set the precedent for a hypotheses that defragmented hard drives are "greener". P = W / t where W = F * Δs The first formula is defined as Power is equal to Work divided by Time. The second formula [...]

For the past 6 years John Iasiuolo has been running the Computer Outlook Radio show. The program broadcasts "LIVE" Monday thru Friday from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Pacific Time and "LIVE" on Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time on the FOX NEWS 1280 - KDOX AM. [...]

Diskeeper Corporation has made a few hints at the need for optimization technology for NAND Flash drives for some time. We now have a particular iteration of that technology completed and need help testing it. We're looking for current Diskeeper customers interested in a first peek. To test this technology [...]

This has been a popular question this past week, since the release of Undelete 2009. Here's the full Q&A on the subject: Can you wipe an entire drive with SecureDelete 2.0? In other words, you plan to give the computer away, say as a donation, but want NONE of your [...]

Undelete 2009 (6.0) has just been released. Here is a list of new and principal features. For more information, go to Undelete. NEW! InvisiTasking technology - enables Undelete tasks to operate in the background with zero overhead. NEW! SecureDelete 2.0 - provides the option to SecureDelete all files immediately rather [...]

Anyone ever heard a software engineer tell that story? Oddly enough, fragmentation was actually introduced to solve a major problem. In the slim chance 😉 you are actually interested as to why fragmentation was "invented", you can check out these couple of pages. The e-book is old, but accurate.

We have a new version of the Diskeeper Boot-time defragmenter very close to release. We're looking for some current Diskeeper 2008 customers interested in testing this new "defrag engine". We spent significant time and energy re-designing this feature from the ground up, and are excited with the results we've seen [...]

Diskeeper is an interesting software product in the variety of benefits that it provides users. Corporations purchase Diskeeper for any number of reasons; better performance, improved reliability, reduce help desk calls, etc... When companies are prosperous and want to take all measures to get every drop of performance out of [...]

Microsoft is around the corner from an exciting new release, perhaps as compelling as Windows Server 2008 itself - the contender to VMware's hypervisor dominance (ESX). Hyper-V (a Windows Server 2008 server role) has wrapped up and is ready to go to market (RTM - or Release To Manufacturing). Diskeeper [...]

Here are the basic steps to installing Diskeeper on a Windows 2008 Server Core system and how you can access the full Diskeeper UI remotely. 1. Turn off the Firewall on the Server Core system. (The default Firewall settings on the Server Core system will not allow remote installation or [...]