June 2008 | Main | August 2008

July 31, 2008

Field Testers Needed - New Diskeeper Boot-time Defrag

We have a new version of the Diskeeper Boot-time defragmenter very close to release. We're looking for some current Diskeeper 2008 customers interested in testing this new "defrag engine". We spent significant time and energy re-designing this feature from the ground up, and are excited with the results we've seen in our internal testing.

If participating in these pre-release quality tests is of interest to you (it will really help us out and speed up getting this update officially released to everyone) please email our Quality Control group at qtesting@diskeeper.com. Please add "Boot-time Defrag Tester" in the subject line and also let them know, in the body of the email, what operating system(s) you will be able to test on.

We expect the field test to start early next week and run for 1-2 weeks, so act quickly if you want to participate.

Posted by Michael at 06:16 PM | Comments (10)

July 07, 2008

Recession-proof software?

Diskeeper is an interesting software product in the variety of benefits that it provides users. Corporations purchase Diskeeper for any number of reasons; better performance, improved reliability, reduce help desk calls, etc...

When companies are prosperous and want to take all measures to get every drop of performance out of their systems, they look to Diskeeper. When companies are looking to cut costs and make the best use of existing assets (i.e. keep hardware in use for a longer period of time) they can again look to Diskeeper. Due to the various benefits, it could be called 'recession-proof' software.

For all the talk/speculation of an economic downturn in many parts of the world, Diskeeper Corporation continues to grow and is ahead of pace for another record setting year. We attribute that success, in large part, to the software's ability to help out companies experiencing lean times, by saving them energy, lengthening their PC life cycle by 6 months or a year, and facilitating initiatives to virtualize servers and desktops.

Posted by Michael at 06:07 PM | Comments (0)

July 04, 2008

Go Green and Save Some Green - with Diskeeper

We recently released two new white papers. One paper was the result of a very interesting experiment (carried out by 3D Professor - an independant software/hardware testing group).

Given that hard drives use considerable energy, the theory was that fragmentation might cause a hard drive to expend more energy accessing fragmented files. The results of the tests were fairly substantial; a relatively heavily used workstation (a high-end system built with some of the most recent eco-friendly hardware) with only mild fragmentation could save 12% on power costs. Over the course of a 'business year' that equals over $20 USD. A conservative estimate for the average desktop or laptop, while probably more fragmented than the test case, can very likely save $10-$15+ in energy costs a year. Combined with the increased performance and reliability that defrag offers, you can save some green while being green.

The second paper goes in to details on how fragmentation applies to new storage technologies/systems. A few sections of this paper have been posted in the blog over the past few months, so some of it may be familiar.

Both papers are available on the Diskeeper Knowledge Center. The link is on the top left side of this page.

Posted by Michael at 01:28 PM | Comments (0)

July 01, 2008

Up Around the Bend

Microsoft is around the corner from an exciting new release, perhaps as compelling as Windows Server 2008 itself - the contender to VMware's hypervisor dominance (ESX). Hyper-V (a Windows Server 2008 server role) has wrapped up and is ready to go to market (RTM - or Release To Manufacturing).

Diskeeper Corporation has worked closely with Microsoft to fully support Hyper-V from early on. That technology alliance includes the recent Microsoft announcement that Diskeeper was one of the first three software vendors to certify their software for Hyper-V (the other software vendors were IBM and Symantec). In the coming months it will culminate in advanced Diskeeper performance functionality announced by Microsoft several years back.

As a long time Microsoft Gold partner, we believe that Microsoft is providing an excellent option for corporation's looking to save power and space, ease provisioning efforts, and achieve full hardware utlilization through virtualization.

Also around the bend is the RTM for a new 2009 iteration of a Diskeeper software release - broadly available in late July/early August. Keep an eye open for the official release!

Posted by Michael at 12:28 AM | Comments (2)