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In the United States, this week (Thursday) marks Thanksgiving, a day where we gather with family and friends and give thanks for all we have. It's an opportunity for me to thank all you readers of this blog, and to thank our ever-growing defrag family of PerfectDisk users. There's a lot of dreary news these days, but we still know there is so much to be thankful for.
And one more thing...2009 will bring "10."
Happy Thanksgiving.
Joe
The first phase of testing for Version 10 of PerfectDisk is going extremely well. The code is stable, the feedback impressive.
More defrag automation. More virtualization. More reports. Better reports. Faster. Better looking.
Improvements for consumers, small businesses and enterprises. Coming in early 2009.
It's a Perfect 10.
In its October 27th cover story, eWeek's Cameron Sturdevant writes about How Green IT Measures Up - Especially in tight economic times, green is the color of money. In one of article's callouts on Tips for greening the server room, Sturdevant points out that "CPU throttling can reduce power use by 21 percent. This is the low-hanging fruit for data center operators."
In terms of "lights out" policies, Sturdevant states that "the single most effective energy-saving strategy for user devices is to turn them off when they are not in use," and points to a Ziff Davis Enterprise Research survey that reported nearly two-thirds of companies are either using or planning to incorporate lights out policies in their organizations. And of course virtualization is a key driver of reduced energy costs and greener IT.
These are some of the reasons that the flexibility of PerfectDisk, with its ability to not only run automatically but also to throttle CPU usage and schedule defrags when necessary, and to optimize virtual environments. is receiving a lot of attention from corporate IT departments.
PerfectDisk, a surprising piece of the green IT puzzle.
Here's the transcript of a recent interview with Bob Nolan, president and CEO of Raxco Software, in which Bob talks about the importance of free space consolidation. As Bob points out, "for every request to the file system there should be a single physical disk I/O to the disk. Anything greater than one is an extraneous or wasted disk access." There's a lot more - read the entire interview here or listen here.
Defragmenting without thoroughly consolidating free space? That's a half-empty glass if I ever saw one.
Well, here we are -- the big day -- Election Day 2008 here in the United States is upon us. The longest campaign comes to an end, with change one way or the other headed our way with implications not only here, but around the world.
In our "little" defrag world, people around the world are voting for change every day. In October alone, where we saw PerfectDisk sales increase 14% over October 2007 in a month that saw companies everywhere see business fall, companies and users from over 50 different countries joined the PerfectDisk family. Yes, there are the multi-billion dollar companies like Northrup Grumman and Newscorp, But also the video photographer in El Salvador who switched to PerfectDisk so he could not only get automatic defragmentation, but pick selected large files to defragment when necessary. Or the consulting firm in Romania that discovered PerfectDisk's single-pass free space consolidation was the best fit for its customers. Or the law office in Cyprus that found the right mix of quality and price. Or the Microsoft Certified Trainer from Ireland who now includes a brief session on PerfectDisk in his classes.
51 countries in October. 110 countries represented in the last 6 months. With many switching from the use of another defragmenter, they're voting for better value, better quality, and a smarter way to defrag. Others are voting to get back their computer's original performance.
The United States votes November 4th. Around the world, votes are being cast every day.
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