PolicyLock: Keep End User Application Settings Locked Down — Coming This Summer!
Group Policy (GP) Management — words that can bring a range of emotions to overworked IT administrators. On the surface, Group Policy is a huge time saver for admins, controlling what Windows users can and cannot do on their computers — from password setup to access of files or folders within a network. For enforcement [...]
8 Reasons Why the Best Windows 7 Defrag is Not the Built-in Windows Disk Defragmenter
There’s a reason thousands of Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals), MCTs (Microsoft Certified Trainers) and businesses the world over, along with millions of consumers, use PerfectDisk for their Windows 7 defrag solution. Simply stated, PerfectDisk continues to be a superior solution to the one provided by Microsoft, and results in greatly improved performance and optimization [...]
Maximizing Dell EqualLogic Thin Provisioning ROI with PerfectStorage: A “No Brainer”
Time and money. If either were unlimited or even in greater supply, so much could be possible. It’s true for many things in life and in business, and it’s no different in the case of space reclamation for thin-provisioned environments. Especially for a company with limited resources and working with a tight IT budget. Take [...]
Update Bad Drivers: 5 Real-Life PC Performance Fixes
Computer trouble? The solution may be as simple as updating an outdated driver. Manually updating device drivers can be a huge undertaking. Finding out which driver is causing problems with your PC can be quite the puzzle to solve. Tracking down the latest compatible update is another issue in itself. PerfectUpdater does all this guesswork [...]
The False Sense of Security in Password Manager Software: How to Avoid the Risks
Managing passwords across the many different sites you visit or where you have online accounts can be a lot of information to retain, especially if you’re doing what you’re supposed to do — using a different password for every site. That’s why some of us store passwords in documents, spreadsheets or notes, and many of [...]
PolicyLock: Keep End User Application Settings Locked Down — Coming This Summer!
Group Policy (GP) Management — words that can bring a range of emotions to overworked IT administrators. On the surface, Group Policy is a huge time saver for admins, controlling what Windows users can and cannot do on their computers — from password setup to access of files or folders within a network. For enforcement [...]
Kudos and Love for Raxco’s Senior Tech Support “Goddess”
Over the years, we have prided ourselves on providing a level of technical support and customer service that is the best in the industry. Our focus is on doing whatever is necessary to help our customers. Most days, our technical support and customer service teams do just that, provide support with the knowledge that they [...]
Maximizing Dell EqualLogic Thin Provisioning ROI with PerfectStorage: A “No Brainer”
Time and money. If either were unlimited or even in greater supply, so much could be possible. It’s true for many things in life and in business, and it’s no different in the case of space reclamation for thin-provisioned environments. Especially for a company with limited resources and working with a tight IT budget. Take [...]
8 Reasons Why the Best Windows 7 Defrag is Not the Built-in Windows Disk Defragmenter
There’s a reason thousands of Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals), MCTs (Microsoft Certified Trainers) and businesses the world over, along with millions of consumers, use PerfectDisk for their Windows 7 defrag solution. Simply stated, PerfectDisk continues to be a superior solution to the one provided by Microsoft, and results in greatly improved performance and optimization [...]
The False Sense of Security in Password Manager Software: How to Avoid the Risks
Managing passwords across the many different sites you visit or where you have online accounts can be a lot of information to retain, especially if you’re doing what you’re supposed to do — using a different password for every site. That’s why some of us store passwords in documents, spreadsheets or notes, and many of [...]
Deploy and Lock 3rd-Party Application Settings with Group Policy
Group Policy (GP) does a pretty good job of allowing IT administrators and security officers to manage their Windows-centric infrastructure. This includes tasks such as: configuring the Windows Firewall turning off the downloading of print drivers over http turning off Windows Update driver searching locking down Internet Explorer (IE) to disable the installation of IE [...]
Update Bad Drivers: 5 Real-Life PC Performance Fixes
Computer trouble? The solution may be as simple as updating an outdated driver. Manually updating device drivers can be a huge undertaking. Finding out which driver is causing problems with your PC can be quite the puzzle to solve. Tracking down the latest compatible update is another issue in itself. PerfectUpdater does all this guesswork [...]
Is Thin Provisioning Right For You?
With the introduction of PerfectStorage, our customer base is expanding to a new set of end users, with storage managers now discovering the benefits of what Raxco Software has to offer. We also find an overlay at many organizations, with our relationships with system administrators now extended to storage management and virtualization teams. As we [...]
How To Save A Quarter Million IT Dollars (or More) in Less Than a Year
As we talk to more and more businesses about their plans for PerfectStorage, the implementations get more and more interesting. Take our recent discussions with a global cloud-based software company with over 10.5 million users in multiple organizations across 189 countries: This company makes acquisitions of HP 3PAR storage in increments of 25 terabytes for approximately [...]
VMware Architect on PerfectStorage to Reclaim Dead Space within Guest OS
As a longtime VMware Elite TAP partner, Raxco Software has enjoyed a great working relationship with VMware over the years. The relationship has allowed us to build industry-leading solutions for the VMware user community. With PerfectDisk vSphere, we’ve helped VMware users optimize the performance of their physical host and guest machines to eliminate I/O bottlenecks. [...]
How To ♥ Your PC Just Like Mom Would
PCs are like children: sometimes they behave like civilized little machines and at other times they just don’t listen, maybe throwing a tantrum or two. As an adoptive parent, consistency in teaching those in your care proper nutrition, grooming and hygiene habits, the difference between right and wrong, and how to behave will result in [...]
Virtual Machine I/O – Fairness vs. Performance
Cormac Hogan is a senior technical marketing architect within the Cloud Infrastructure Product Marketing group at VMware. He’s responsible for storage in general, with a focus on core VMware vSphere storage technologies and virtual storage, including the VMware vSphere® Storage Appliance.
Remotely Lock and Enforce Your Windows Group Policy Settings
A common complaint we hear from IT administrators is that no matter how well they perform Active Directory group policy management, their end users find a way to mess up the admins’ handiwork. Sure, setting Windows group policy is an important process to ensure corporate compliance, with numerous applications deployed to desktops across your organization. But as [...]
