Continuing PerfectDisk’s pioneering role in defragmentation for virtual environments, I’m happy to announce support for VMware vSphere 4 in the latest PerfectDisk 10 build. We’ve established a great relationship with VMware over the past few years, and as part of this we continue to evolve our support for VMware offerings. Whichever side of the ESX/Hyper-V [...]

                            
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 [...]

                            
It’s the third and final installment of our 3-part Webinar series — Defragmentation in a Virtual Environment. You’ll get to see our Virtual Aware defrag in action and see why it matters.You’ll see why we say that without it, the potential for performance hits in a virtual environment are significant. If you’re running VMware [...]

If 2008 is really the year of virtualization (just Google"the year of virtualization"), then September 2008 is the month of virtualization. There's tomorrow's Hyper-V launch event from Microsoft, and next week's VMworld from VMware. And the pace of articles in publications like Computerworld, Redmond Magazine, Information Week and more seems to have moved from red hot [...]

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 [...]

PerfectDisk 2008 for VMware and the PerfectDisk 2008 for VMware ESX Bundle have been nominated for Best Virtualization Management Tool as part of SYS-CON's 2008 Virtualization Journal Readers' Choice Awards. It puts us in some heady company, with the likes of IBM, VMware, HP, CA, Sun, Symantec and others,
     
We're honored.

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, [...]