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Defrag your mind -- join

                           

We've always tried to keep our doors "open" here at Raxco, regularly soliciting feedback from our users, whether home users or large enterprises. We continue to do so and are looking to engage our users and the technology community in various places.

                           

Twitter -- a few months ago we set up an account for PerfectDisk on this "microblogging" technology.  With Twitter, you can communicate with friends, family, colleagues -- whoever you want - with brief messages (called Tweets) that are limited to 140 characters or less. You can follow others, and others can follow you, to see what's on your mind. You can follow me at PerfectDisk on Twitter to get updates on PerfectDisk and industry news.

                 

Facebook -- this week saw the 200 millionth user join Facebook, with the fastest growing group aged 35 and up. With Facebook, you can connect with friends, family and colleagues, find people from your past, "post" what you're doing or what's on your mind, and even post pictures. So of course you can become a fan of PerfectDisk and post your thoughts on the coolest defragger onthe planet, pick up free giveaways, and get the latest PerfectDisk promotions.

                           

And there is the PerfectDisk Pro User Community, where you can ask questions of fellow PerfectDisk users, make your thoughts known to other PerfectDisk users as well as PerfectDisk management, and generally engage the PerfectDisk community.

If you're already on Twitter or Facebook, check out PerfectDisk in those places. If you haven't yet started using those tools, now's a great time to start. They're free, fun, and a great way to learn.

Join.

                    

PC Magazine Netherlands -- powerful, flexible, thorough

                       

The Netherlands version of PC Magazine gives PerfectDisk 10 Home Edition and Professional 4 stars in a recent review that is in the April edition of the magazine. The review starts out stating that "PerfectDisk 10 is een zeer krachtig en goed te configureren defragmentatieprogramma (PerfectDisk 10 is a very powerful defragmentation program). The review also highlights PerfectDisk's thoroughness, flexibility and low free space requirement, flexible scheduling including automatic background StealthPatrol, and patented SMARTPlacement optimization strategy, along with free space consolidation to improve write speed. PerfectDisk's low footprint was also lauded.

We're happy to add PC Magazine Netherlands to the long list of publications, reviewers and professionals who give PerfectDisk 10 defrag the thumbs up.

                          

PerfectDisk 10 Service Pack 2 (Build 104)

                  

PerfectDisk 10 Build 104 is now available. Various bugs have been fixed.

You can "Check For Updates" under the Product Resources tab in PerfectDisk, or wait for Autoupdate.

Get news like this earlier -- follow PerfectDisk on Twitter.

She's back! Tanned, rested and ready...well, we hope rested

The PerfectDisk family here in Maryland, and we expect many around the world, are ecstatic to welcome back Susie Colon to the Technical Support team after a 3-month leave. Susie was busy caring for her new son. While she's been busy, had many a sleepless night, and likely will have many more sleepless nights, she's glad to be back and we're glad to have her back.

Welcome back, Susie!

                             

Yes, Virginia, PerfectDisk 10 Exchange will be Virtual Aware

                    

All Exchange users in favor?

We've had a lot of PerfectDisk 10 for Exchange users coming to us since the 10 launch and basically asking "Hey, where the heck is my Virtual Awareness for PerfectDisk 10 for Exchange?" Well, we knew there was lots of interest in Virtual Awareness prior to launch, and we anticipated increased interest post-launch. But in all honesty, it's gone beyond our expectations and one area where we knew early on we had missed was the Exchange side. Fortunately, because of our code base and architecture of PerfectDisk, getting from Point A (no Virtual Awareness for PD 10 Exchange) to Point B (PD 10 Exchange with Virtual Awareness) is pretty straightforward.

Thanks for all the feedback and getting on us on this one. We're on the case. PerfectDisk 10 Exchange with patent-pending Virtual Awareness will be here.

And I get to say it one last time, with a twist...it's a Perfect Ten (with even more Virtual Awareness). Coming real soon.

                  

Releated Post:

• PerfectDisk 10 Release
• PerfectDisk 10 Virtual Enterprise Edition Release

PerfectDisk 10 Service Pack 1 (Build 100)

                  

PerfectDisk 10 Build 100 is now available. Variousbugs have been fixed, and new Active Directory management functionality has been added to PerfectDisk 10 for Exchange.

You can "Check For Updates" under the Product Resources tab in PerfectDisk, or wait for Autoupdate.

Virtualization defrag for the future -- here today -- Go

                            

The future of virtualization defragmentation arrives today, with the general availability of the world's first and only virtually-aware disk defragmentation utility. The PerfectDisk 10 Virtual Enterprise Edition is now generally available. This newest member of the PerfectDisk family contains patent-pending Virtual Awareness that eliminates resource contention to maintain optimal performance on physical hosts. And it is platform independent on VMware ESX Server and Windows-based physical hosts such as Microsoft's Hyper-V.

                         

Since the Release Candidate of the Virtual Enterprise Edition was made available about a month ago, interest from businesses and agencies has really taken off. What's the big deal? What the competition offers is defragmentation that is always on, always going....but unaware of its environment. So a common scenario in that environment is a virtual machine, or 2, or several, that kick off defragmentation because they are "idle." The problem is that these "idle" guests start going to work and consuming resources. but they don't take into account that another guest under the same physical host may not be idle - and in fact may need to carry out important work. But it's impeded by the "idle" guests that are cranking away, consuming resources at the expense of a critical machine that needs to do other work. 

                     

Enter the PerfectDisk 10 Virtual Enterprise Edition. It's the next generation of intelligence, which not only concerns itself with the resource availability of individual machines, but of their physical hosts as well. Plus all the other extras with PerfectDisk 10, like space management reports, patented optimization, space restoration technology, etc.

                     Also available today is the new PerfectDisk 10 Enterprise Console (formerly the Command Center). The PD 10 console brings new virtualization reporting as well as other new reports and reporting enhancements. Plus - new integration with VMware Virtual Infrastructure Management. This new plug-in allows user to access the PerfectDisk 10 Enterprise Console directly from within the VMware Virtual Infrastructure Client, providing a single point of management for their ESX-based/vCenter managed Windows guests.

                          

And the console also has new integration with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007. The SCOM 2007 management pack allows users to access PerfectDisk 10 Enterprise Console fragmentation statistics - including alerts and warnings - directly from within the SCOM 2007 console, providing a single point of management for their managed Windows environment. Using the PerfectDisk Enterprise Console SCOM 2007 management pack, users can drill down to the drive level to view fragmentation levels, view an aggregate summary of alerts and warnings, connect to PerfectDisk running on a managed computer, and even directly launch the Enterprise Console to deploy, configure and schedule PerfectDisk on their managed computers. And finally, the PerfectDisk 10 Enterprise Console now includes SQL Server 2005 Express Edition for improved performance and scalability.

Virtualization defragmentation with VMware ESX Server, Microsoft's Hyper-V, and more. Total enterprise management of defragmentation.

                  

Now.

About.com -- PerfectDisk 10 is a must buy

                        

About.com's tag line is "Guidance. Not Guesswork." In its PC Support section, the huge web site that provides guidance to consumers on just about everything has just come out with a PerfectDisk 10 review by Tim Fisher. A few extracts:

• "Buy PerfectDisk 10. Period."
• "The defragmentation capabilities in Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP are barely comparable to PerfectDisk 10."
• "PerfectDisk 10 is fast and effective with a minimum footprint. That's hard to find in a program of any kind."
• "It's an inexpensive tool that just works."
• It's faster than any other defragmentation program I've tried. It doesn't overload my CPU and RAM like many utility programs sometimes do."

• "You won't be sorry." 

You can read the entire review here.

               

PerfectDisk 10 -- Go

Welcome to PerfectDisk 10

www.perfectdisk.com

 

Related Posts:

• Start your engines
• It's a Perfect 10. Tuesday
• Enhanced control - Enterprise Console
• PerfectDisk Home Edition
• Vista, Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V certified
• There's no place like home
• 10 for 7
• Easy on the eyes
• Tell me about myself
• The world turns its eyes to Washington
• Are you smarter?
• This is the reality - real virtual awareness
• Analyze this
• Our best ever is coming
• Obama or McCain
• 2009 tech trends

Ladies and gentlemen of the world -- start your engines

                                

Ingram Micro's and others' warehouses are full of new CDs, and the final preparations are being made.

George Menegakis is an IT consultant for OTE, Greece's largest telecommunications company. George says "the new interface is quite more polished, more professional, and prettier...I thought that the statements about its defragmentation speed were just hype. Well, they weren't. The defragmentation process is considerably faster in 10. It's indeed a Perfect 10!"

                                     

Russ Howard is a systems programmer at the University of Pittsburgh. While the city of steel prepares for its team's appearance in Super Bowl XLIII as well as celebrates the university's Top 10 basketball team, he's had time to test drive the new version of PerfectDisk - and he finds it's also a winner. He finds the new Virtual Enterprise Edition "a great advencement and a no-brainer for enterprise virtual environments."

Your time has come. Change you can believe in.

It's a Perfect 10. And it's just hours away.

                      

Related Posts:

• It's a Perfect 10. Tuesday
• Enhanced control - Enterprise Console
• PerfectDisk Home Edition
• Vista, Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V certified
• There's no place like home
• 10 for 7
• Easy on the eyes
• Tell me about myself
• The world turns its eyes to Washington
• Are you smarter?
• This is the reality - real virtual awareness
• Analyze this
• Our best ever is coming
• Obama or McCain
• 2009 tech trends