The Greengate School is located in Huntsville, Alabama, educating and supporting bright children who have specific learning differences in reading, spelling or writing so that they may realize their full potential. With a dedicated teaching staff of 22, the school prides itself on superior attention to the needs of its student. You might think such [...]

With a topic as hot as virtualization, administrators really need to do their homework when looking at the myriad of solutions for virtual environments. And while the number of virtual defrag solutions is very small, you still need to do your homework. It’s only after digging down into the products that you can really see what [...]

                                                               
With all the buzz and positive reviews of Windows 7, one thing that hasn’t really changed are the limitations of the built-in defragmenter. And from a corporate perspective, the downside of the built-in is as stark as ever. I’ll look at a few of the limitations here.

The first major limitation of the [...]

                            
Writing in the Information Week Analytics Blog, Art Whittmann writes this week about a panel discussion on the future of the data center at this week’s Interop show in Las Vegas. The panel consisted of leaders from Cisco, Brocade, Juniper and Riverbed, and Art points out that they all agreed on an overlying message [...]

                                                
If there’s one thing worse than the ol’ “bait and switch,” it’s a “bait and cover-up.” Or put another way, the devil is in the details.                                               
So from “the other guys” we get the following:
                         

“at the root of virtual machine performance problems is file fragmentation.” Well, maybe yes, maybe no. Do we think that [...]

 
We’re holding a free Webinar on Tuesday, April 21st at 12:00 p.m. noon EDT (9:00 a.m. PDT). The Webinar, Managing PerfectDisk 10 in the Enterprise, will cover:

what’s new in the PerfectDisk 10 Enterprise Console
setup, deployment and management of PerfectDisk 10 clients
patent-pending Virtual Awareness for boosting performance of virtualization environments, including VMware ESX. Microsoft’s Hyper-V and other [...]

                            
The future of virtualization defragmentation arrives today, with the general availability of the world’s first and only virtually-aware disk defragmentation utility. The PerfectDisk 10 Virtual Enterprise Edition is now generally available. This newest member of the PerfectDisk family contains patent-pending Virtual Awareness that eliminates resource contention to maintain optimal performance on physical hosts. [...]

                          
System Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM) provides end-to-end service management that is easy to customize and extend for improved service levels across an IT environment. This enables operations and IT management teams to identify and resolve issues affecting the health of distributed IT services.
The PerfectDisk 10 Enterprise Console SCOM 2007 management pack allows users [...]

                               VMware's vCenter Server (formerly VMware VirtualCenter) provides pretty robust virtualization management for VMware Infrastructure environments. It's a big help for administrators trying to manage and automate their VMware environments.
With the new PerfectDisk 10 Enterprise Console, we provide a plug-in from the PerfectDisk console directly into the vCenter Server. This allows VMware datacenters to enhance their automated datacenter [...]

Because of the high demand and attendance of last week’s webinar on the PerfectDisk 2008 Command Center Overview, we are presenting it again today. The webinar will be held at 12:00 p.m. (noon) Eastern Daylight Time today (Wednesday, May 7th). Get an overview on deployment, management and reporting with PerfectDisk 2008’s management console for the [...]