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: [...]
With close to 400,000 systems, the Naval Marine Corp Intranet (NMCI), managed by EDS/HP, is "the largest internal computer network in the world" and has been using Diskeeper on their systems for close to a decade now: "We run Diskeeper on our two production web servers and [...]
We have an online FAQ that I thought I'd post here as well. It provides some valuable insight into what's going on with all those graphs and statistics related to our proprietary new IntelliWrite technology. IntelliWrite Fragmentation Prevention This section of the Dashboard tab explains [...]
Diskeeper has just been awarded the Editor's Best award (Gold) by Windows IT Pro. "Diskeeper does its job well. It defragments in the background without hurting system performance and doesn't require defragmentation scheduling." —Zac Wiggy, assistant editor, Windows IT Pro "Diskeeper 2009 is loaded with features, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
The new virtual platform disk optimizer for Hyper-V platforms is now available for sale and as trialware. V-locity with InvisiTasking technology installs on both the Windows Server 2008 OS that is running the virtual host and all Windows virtual machines (guests). Each component optimizes its [...]
A long time ago in a server room far, far away there was the weekend effort of IT to "backup, reformat, restore". Alternatively one could "squeeze" all the data to the front of the disk/volume after taking the volume offline and running special utilities. This [...]
The following changes are included in the new Diskeeper Administrator 2009 incremental. Most are changes to address either tech support issues (bugs or otherwise) or internally found errors. Like the Diskeeper "defragmenter editions", the update will be released in all supported languages over the next [...]
Enough dry blogs now behind me, I thought I'd entertain a more informal post. Can data centralization create euphoria? If Philip K. Dick can ask if androids dream of electric sheep I feel I'm entitled, right or wrong, to ask the above question - well [...]