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HDD Observer 3.4.2 (Windows)

Can detect a lot of hard drives troubles and give a solution for them: Monitor hard drives health, performance, temperature, activity and show them in a system tray icon; Check file system fragmentation and registry fragmentation; Defragment and cleran file system and registry; Low memory usage.Version 3.4.2 improves SMART detection....

Tags: Hard Drive, Fragmentation, File System, Microsoft Windows, Daoisoft

Software downloads 2009-09-06

The Essentials Series: Why You Need to Defragment

Authored by Microsoft MVP Greg Shields, this tech report is a call to arms for Windows administrators, reminding them why defragmenting is so important. Everyone wants better system performance and efficiency. Everyone wants a lower cost of ownership. This report details exactly how an administrator can get it fast....

Tags: Fragmentation, Diskeeper Corp.

White papers 2009-09-01

Best Practices in Index Maintenance - Fighting the Silent Performance Killers

Index fragmentation is a serious issue. It causes significant SQL Server performance issues, leading to loss of money and time. The problem is native tools alone aren't the solution to fragmentation. In this new Quest white paper, learn about index fragmentation and why native and custom-coded approaches aren't...

Tags: Fragmentation, Performance, Best Practice, Quest Software Inc., Index Fragmentation, Performance Management, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-08-24

Why and How You Should Find and Fix Index Fragmentation

In a high-volume database you need frequent critical maintenance. If you skip this important task, index fragmentation may cause wasted space, inefficient I/O and poor performance. In this new Quest Software white paper, learn exactly what index fragmentation is, how it occurs, how to find it and...

Tags: Fragmentation, Quest Software Inc., Performance Management, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-08-24

White Space Networking With Wi-Fi Like Connectivity

Networking over UHF white spaces is fundamentally different from conventional Wi-Fi along three axes: spatial variation, temporal variation, and fragmentation of the UHF spectrum. Each of these differences gives rise to new challenges for implementing a wireless network in this band. The paper presents the design and implementation of WhiteFi,...

Tags: Fragmentation, Network, Variation, WhiteFi, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2009-08-21

The Impact of Disk Fragmentation on Servers

"Every application that touches the hard drive will benefit from a good tool that defragments and manages the files on your servers." And now here's the proof! Through a series of precise performance test results, you'll discover the surprising difference defragmentation makes in key areas of server operation such as...

Tags: Disk, Fragmentation, Diskeeper Corp., Servers, Hardware

White papers 2009-04-15

O&O Defrag Server Edition 11.5 build 4065 (Windows)

The award-winning defragmentation program, O&O Defrag 11, optimizes hard disks and merges data fragments twice as quickly as the previous version. Thanks to its new background monitoring, O&O Defrag 11 is now able to prevent fragmentation from occurring at its earliest stages. Newly added and modified files are analyzed and...

Tags: Hard Drive, Fragmentation, Server, Microsoft Windows, Defragmentation, O&O Software, File Status View

Software downloads 2009-03-12

The message from GSMA Barcelona: fragmentation

The message from GSMA Barcelona: fragmentationIsn't competition grand?When it comes to phones, I don't hear a lot of shills or anything-but people causing a fuss. No one flames you for owning a Nokia, and no one seems to write about how great their Palm is. You can buy what...

Tags: Cellular phones, PC-World, GSMA Barcelona, Apple FanBois, GSMA, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-02-20

Fragmentation and Encryption to Enforce Privacy in Data Storage

Privacy requirements have an increasing impact on the realization of modern applications. Technical considerations and many significant commercial and legal regulations demand today that privacy guarantees be provided whenever sensitive information is stored, processed, or communicated to external parties. It is therefore crucial to design solutions able to respond to...

Tags: Data Storage, Fragmentation, Storage, Privacy, Springer Science+Business Media, Encryption, Security

White papers 2008-12-12

Data Mining-Based Fragmentation of XML Data Warehouses

With the multiplication of XML data sources, many XML data warehouse models have been proposed to handle data heterogeneity and complexity in a way relational data warehouses fail to achieve. However, XML-native database systems currently suffer from limited performances, both in terms of manageable data volume and response time. Fragmentation...

Tags: Fragmentation, Relational Data, Data Mining, XML-Data

White papers 2008-11-05

The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation

Fragmentation results in significant money and time drain on IT resources. The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation helps IT professionals, analysts, and engineers understand the benefit of an automatic hands free disk defragmentation strategy across the enterprise. This in-depth independent study covers disk architecture, examines how the pervasive problem...

Tags: Disk, Fragmentation, Defragmentation

White papers 2008-09-05

Virtualization and Disk Performance

Virtualization marks the next evolution in data storage technology. This white paper analyzes the virtual machine, performance-threatening dangers, and their real-time solutions. Virtual disks are uniquely susceptible to fragmentation and its capsizing effects. Because of the inter-communication between virtual disks and the host systems, server virtualization actually...

Tags: Disk, Fragmentation, Diskeeper Corp., Virtual Disk, Virtualization, Ip storage, Storage Management, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2008-02-28

Defrag Myth Busters - What You Should Know

There are many serious misconceptions about fragmentation which, if believed, can lead to significant computer damage. Debunking these myths could save your system or network. Fragmentation is one of the most serious problems that plague computers around the globe. It accounts for billions in lost...

Tags: Fragmentation, Diskeeper Corp., Computer, Productivity

White papers 2008-01-23

Why is my computer slowing down?

Why is my computer slowing down?Not exactly ....With NTFS only the metadata is written to the journal, not the file data. So technically it's not the same type of journaling as with ext3 which writes the metadata and the file contents. Now Reiserfs is a metadata only journaling system, but...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Nothing, file system, Microsoft Windows, fragmentation, computer, NTFS, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-01-22

Diskeeper 2008 Multimedia Tour

The Diskeeper 2008 Multimedia Tour explains how file fragmentation impacts system performance and how you can determine the level of fragmentation that exists within your systems. This 15-minute multimedia presentation addresses these important questions and more: How can I find out if my systems are fragmented? ...

Tags: Multimedia, Fragmentation, Diskeeper Corp., Diskeeper 2008 Multimedia Tour

Presentations 2008-01-01

Social nets and identity fragmentation

faberNovel Consulting has mapped out some trends in social networking and digital identity. The research paper PDF here titled "Social network websites: best practices from leading services," compares LinkedIn and Xing and Match.com and Meetic. The research paper also touches on the how identity is changed by...

Tags: Fragmentation, Identity, Digital Identity, faberNovel Consulting, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-02

Can open source be applied to warfare?

John Robb left has spent the last few years writing about the open source process as applied to warfare, most notably in his book Brave New War. He says the good guys may finally be getting the upper hand by applying those lessons. When...

Tags: Fragmentation, Robb, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-20

Enterprise mobile remains up for grabs despite Google, Android and OHA

What do the major players missing from the Google Android and Open Handset Alliance OHA have in common? An abiding interest in enterprise mobile, and effectively integrating IT back-end resources for delivery to mobile B2E, B2B and B2C endpoints. So-far, the non-OHA-committed players include Apple, Microsoft, Sybase,...

Tags: Google Inc., Fragmentation, Mobile, Robot, Sybase Inc., Android, B2C, Advertising & Promotion, Robots, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Marketing, Emerging Technologies, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-11-07

Gauging the Impact of Fragmentation

Looking for an accurate way to measure fragmentation on your systems? This white paper has clear step-by-step instructions that can tell if your volumes are standing up to fragmentation or if your performance is deteriorating. The paper also recommends a handful of performance measurement tools from software...

Tags: Fragmentation, Performance, Diskeeper Corp., Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2007-11-01

Does fragmentation affect SANs, NAS, and RAID?

The perception that fragmentation does not affect SANs, NAS, and RAID is incorrect. Disk arrays improve I/O performance, but they aren't invulnerable to fragmentation. This white paper explains the relationship between the logical disk with which the operating system interacts and the physical drive array, and shows why arrays are...

Tags: NAS, Fragmentation, SAN, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), RAID, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Hardware

White papers 2007-09-18