In our continuing update on Windows 7, I wanted to look today at free space consolidation. While the Windows 7 built-in defragmenter’s command line interface has an option to force free space consolidation, this option is not specified for the default schedule. In order to force free space consolidation, the Windows 7 defrag schedule has [...]

                               
For those of you with kids, or those adults who just like animals and games that are “good, clean fun,” you probably know all about Webkinz. For the uninitiated, you can go here to learn about these stuffed animals that take on a life of their own, a life that is controlled by the user [...]

                          
Thousands of system builders around the world make PerfectDisk a part of their server and workstation offerings. Before their customers receive their new computer, PerfectDisk is installed and ready to automatically defragment the users’ drives from the get go, ensuring the computers keep running like new. We have relationships with computer builders big and [...]

Tomorrow the Balder Technology Group is publishing a new white paper entitled Impact of Free Space Consolidation On Windows File System Performance. The president and CEO of Balder Group is David Goebel. Goebel was part of Microsoft's 4-person Windows NT file system team in the early '90s that architected, designed and implemented NTFS. Goebel and his [...]

Will PerfectDisk save the subprime mortgage crisis? That may be too much to ask, but one man with his eye closely on the situation is probably sleeping better knowing that several thousand of his agency’s servers are now running faster and with complete free space consolidation.
               

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 [...]

Like many places, here in the United States things tend to move at a slower pace in the summer months, especially when it comes to work and business, especially in the IT world. Everyone seems to be on vacation at one time or another. Corporate evaluations take longer, decisions are put on hold. People tend [...]

One of our missions at Raxco is to always provide value. Superior technology, outstanding technical support and customer service, and a fair price. Whether a user is looking for a desktop or laptop solution, a server solution, or a centralized management solution, our goal is to provide the best product and the best price - [...]

This week’s Information Week cover story on "The Future of Virtualization" analyzed the recent big virtualization news - VMware’s IPO and Citrix Systems’ acquisition of XenSource - and how it would play out in the market over the coming months and years. While most of the action these days is on the server side, many [...]

Some of our large enterprise customers have a secured, "locked down" environment where users are kept on a short leash. With PerfectDisk, these users are able to install PerfectDisk across the organization without the GUI present on the users’ machines. In these scenarios, the enterprise receives the benefits of automated, single-pass defragmentation and free space [...]