When an Economic Slowdown Hurts Operational Efficiency
Due to layoffs forced by a weakened economy, Americall lost many technical engineers and administrative staff, resulting in severely fragmented disks and diminished performance across all servers because disk defragmentation had always been done manually. Slowed access to data and applications had a significantly negative impact on Americall employee productivity. Continue reading
It’s been a crazy, hectic — in a good way — week here at Raxco, as the launch of PerfectDisk 12 got underway Wednesday morning. While we prepared for an onslaught of activity, what we experienced and continue to experience exceeded even our optimistic expectations. Visitors to our website and downloads of PerfectDisk have been up over 15% over last year’s PerfectDisk 11 launch over the first 2 days. Continue reading
Alan Sugano, president of ADS Consulting Group, which specializes in networking, custom programming, Microsoft .NET Web development, and SQL Server development, recently penned an article in Windows IT Pro Magazine entitled VMware ESX Disk Configuration Options. Continue reading
You know we’ve always liked to talk about the importance of free space consolidation, which in many ways is as important as file defragmentation in recapturing and maintaining fast PC performance. Today I wanted to address free space consolidation as it relates to thin provisioning and virtualization performance. Continue reading
Our user community is a critical part of the success Raxco has enjoyed over the years. They honor us with their business, complain when we do something they don’t like, and overall make us better with the dialog they generate with us, to improve what we do. Our user community ranges from casual consumers to leading executives from Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies.
We always like receiving input from respected professionals in the IT field. Chris Wahl, based in Chicago, is one such individual. He’s a Microsoft Certified IT Professional, VMware Certified Professional, and self-described “virtualization-aholic.” Continue reading
We’re receiving more and more inquiries on disk defragmentation for ESX, vSphere and Hyper-V. As IT professionals become more immersed in virtualization, they are beginning to understand how performing vSphere defrag, for example, can lead to vastly improved virtualization performance. It’s not only that fragmentation is a problem in virtual environments because it’s the same ol’ NTFS file system. Fragmentation can be an even greater problem when looking at the relationship of host and guests. IO throughput is the big issue here, and that’s where defragmentation can make a big impact on virtualization performance. Continue reading
