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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
"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 [...]
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.) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I recently came across an older article about defragmenting SANs (read it here). It includes interviews with analysts, SAN vendors (some pro-defrag, some against), and an employee from Diskeeper Corporation. I was particulary impressed with the EMC'ers response: "The SAN can't do anything about the fact [...]
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, [...]