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 [...]

Chances are, over the years you’ve gone through several migrations from one old computer to your shiny new one as you made the determination it was time to get hold of Intel’s newest chip, Microsoft’s latest version of Windows, or that slick new laptop. And chances are, you’ve used PCmover, the market leader in PC [...]

Rex Winn of the Code-Frog System Architects tells an interesting story over in The Frog Blog. Having to mirror one of his clients who had just purchased VMware Workstation 6.0 and gearing up on the whole virtualization thing, Rex was puzzled as to why he wasn’t seeing any performance gains. In fact, as the virtual [...]

I saw this last week in a press release from another company that provides disk defragmentation software. I read it once. Then I read it again, then a third time. I had a few other people read it to make sure my eyes weren’t playing tricks on me. No, sure enough, this is what it [...]

Here in the United States, we are about to embark on a 3-week "festival" dubbed March Madness - a series of often thrilling college basketball games, usually punctuated by upsets of well-known teams by underdog schools that few people have heard of or are familiar with. And for the few days before the tournament starts [...]

PerfectDisk’s AutoPilot Scheduling provides flexibility and control so that defragmentation occurs on your terms - when you want it to. And I/O and CPU throttling ensures that there is no interference with work you are doing. Further flexibility is provided through PerfectDisk’s Screen Saver defrag - allowing defragmentation to occur only when a screen saver [...]