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 [...]

                                       
I’m often asked about whether one should or can defragment SQL databases. While by no means an SQL expert, we have looked at this issue a lot and work with numerous organizations that benefit from regular defragmentation of their SQL databases with PerfectDisk. PerfectDisk uses the Microsoft MoveFile APIs, ensuring the defrag of SQL database files [...]

It can be interesting at times to deal with the bureaucracy out in Redmond. Or annoying. In any event, we have finally found our way into Microsoft’s Virtualization Solution catalog.
Microsoft’s virtualization story starts at their virtualization web site. The PerfectDisk virtualization defrag listing is here. Physical or virtual, Hyper-V or any other Windows-based host, you’re [...]

                            
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 [...]

We’re just under a month in, and even our high expectations have been exceeded by the response we’ve received on PerfectDisk 10. Even as the opening night has passed, it’s been a record-breaking month here for product downloads as well as favorable reviews. Here’s just a sampling:

“improves performance big time”“raised the bar for all [...]

                          
Redmond Magazine has a sister publication called the Virtualization Review. Last November, it published its first annual Virtualization Buyer's Guide, covering all kinds of products and topics in the virtualization space. It's a good source whether you're looking at applications, desktop or server virtualization products,power and cooling issues, and a lot more. The management and optimization [...]

   It's that time of the year — 4th quarter — when the pundits and analysts are rolling out their predictions for what will be the big technology trends in 2009. Industry analyst giant Gartner analyst group weighed in with its top 10 strategic technologies for 2009:

virtualization
cloud computing
servers
enterprise mashups
specialized systems
social software
social networks
unified communications
business intelligence
green IT.

It's [...]

We have a new white paper out entitled PerfectDisk ROI in a Server Environment. The paper summarizes some of the ways an organization can proactively save time and money with PerfectDisk, including:

Better end user productivity
Shorter backup times
Improved server availability
Maximized hardware investments
Improved performance in virtual environments
Reduced system administration time
Life cycle extension.

You can see the entire white [...]

Microsoft will launch Hyper-V and expand on its virtualization strategy in Bellevue, Washington on September 8th. And while this may be another instance of Microsoft not being the first to a big party (think Internet, think search, think lots of things), this is another one where they want to attend in a big way. They want to be a part [...]

We’re excited to be making several major announcements today:

The PerfectDisk 2008 Command Center is now available for sites requiring a centralized management console. It includes a much-improved user interface, new reports, enhanced reports, improved performance, new deployment options, new installation options, and more. One thing has not changed - it is still offered for free, [...]