A fun day here at PerfectDisk land today – the pre-Alpha code for PerfectDisk 11 was distributed internally here this morning. More functionality without bloat. Backend and frontend improvements. Shinier and more intuitive, without a new learning curve required. Faster. More virtualization improvements. Desktops, laptops, production servers, Exchange servers and Windows Home Servers will benefit.
Okay, I’m biased. But [...]

Cam McClure is the founder and president of the very successful 28-year old CAM CO Enterprises, Inc. of Washington, Pennsylvania. Cam described to me his premise for the company, saying that it was built on “the idea that clients should expect fast and efficient support and systems.  Our primary focuses are in three areas.  We build custom [...]

                            
In the June 22nd edition of Information Week, Charles Babcock makes a strong case that “companies must get beyond manual monitoring and management of virtual machines” to boost appliaction performance and realize the true benefits of virtualization. In his article Virtualization Meets Automation, Charles writes that as the movement to virtualization grows, the issue [...]

Okay, a little Friday digression. Sorry, but I just had to share this. For those of you who know Susie Colon, technical support mistress of all things PerfectDisk and defrag, you know she provides top-notch support and general comfort to our users. What you have not known, until now (nor did I), is that she makes a mean [...]

                                                 
Today we officially switch over the PerfectDisk blog to a new platform which has more capabilities and flexibility. For those of you who subscribe, you should continue to receive automatic updates. If for some reason you do not, I ask you to please subscribe from this site. For those of you on Typepad, a [...]

                                     
To win an Emmy award requires great passion, talent and world-class dedication to your craft. Novus Technic (www.novustechnic.com), of Santa Clarita, California, has two Emmys to the credit of its staff and strategic partners. The company provides instructional and web design and development services to organizations large and small. Its web development client list includes Baxter [...]

                         
Google’s Chrome web browser has crossed the 1% market penetration threshold (1.15% according to Wikipedia), which may sound small, but when taken in light of the number of web users around the world, still adds up to a significant number – over 10 million.

One of the things we’ve noticed here, along with many of our PerfectDisk users, [...]

Move over World of Warcraft (WoW) players with your big MPQ files. The massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) market is getting more crowded with kid- and family-friendly games rather than evil characters. Hello Legos!
Yukari Iwatani Kane, writing in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal, writes that “a wave of new multiplayer games targeted at families and [...]

                          
Many Vista (and Windows 7 Beta and Windows Server 2008) users are happy to have the ability to resize partitions with Microsoft’s built-in Disk Manager. With this built-in tool, users have the ability to dynamically resize partitions. Of course, like many things built by Microsoft into the OS, there are third-party options available that [...]

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