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 [...]

   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 [...]

             
Eric Lai's article Vista May Still Have Its Day in the August 25th edition of Computerworld and his blog makes the case that despite all the doom and gloom about Vista– "home users hate it, businesses are uninstalling it" and Gartner is saying it's all proof that the 23-year-old Windows line is "collapsing" unders its own [...]

Long ago, Gartner concluded and reported that "a multi-pass defragmenter must be run over and over to defragment the disk, especially when defragmenting very large disks with heavy defragmentation and limited free space. As such, multi-pass defragmenters characteristically fragment the remaining free space on the disk, which accelerates fragmentation later.It is recommended that a third-party [...]

If you’re a fan (or not) of Raxco Software, you know how highly we think of consolidated free space. We believe it’s a critical component of disk defragmentation, and our tests, our customers’ tests, and industry analysts’ tests bear this out. Without consolidating free space, your not doing justice to defragmentation. No, it’s not because [...]

This week’s Information Week cover story is entitled "9 Hot Technologies That Can Blow Up In Your Face." The introduction points out that there are emerging technologies that are definitely worthy of enterprise consideration, but caution is also a must.
       
Charles Babcock writes about the "virtualization threat ahead" and astutely addresses the security [...]

The press - mainstream as well as technology - can’t seem to write enough about Vista - good or bad, meeting expectations or not, etc. In the May 21st edition of The Wall Street Journal, Justin LaHart weighs in with an interesting perspective in his "Ahead of the Tape" column. He points out that Apple [...]

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