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Raxco Releases PerfectDisk for Defragmentation

For PC, server, Exchange and VMware systems

Raxco Software announced the latest release of its award-winning PerfectDisk 2008
disk defragmentation utility, along with new components that together
comprise a complete and flexible performance and storage management
solution for enterprises, small business and home offices. With this
release, Raxco continues its tradition of leading the industry in
productivity-enhancing defragmentation and performance solutions,
including industry-first solutions for VMware Workstation and VMware Server environments.

 


The entire family and highlights include:

 

  • PerfectDisk 2008 Professional and PerfectDisk 2008 Server
  • A
    brand new user interface to enhance usability and improve the user
    experience, including ribbons, new wizards, new graphs and more.
  • Enhancements to the popular Single Defrag option, including a new
    Selected Files Defrag capability to defragment selected files rather
    than the entire drive.
  • New unattended background defragmentation used when scheduling is
    not convenient. PerfectDisk provides the most flexible and
    comprehensive defragmentation options available today.
  • New free space management capabilities including a Space Explorer™
    graphical drive view and, with the Professional edition, a duplicate
    file remover.
  • New Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) compatibility mode provides enhanced defragmentation of VSS environments.
  • Reduced memory footprint for improved performance – up to 50% faster.
  • Support for the exFAT file system for improved flash drive support.
  • Vista SP1 (Professional edition) and Windows Server 2008 (Server edition) ready.

 

  • PerfectDisk 2008 for VMware Workstation and PerfectDisk 2008 for VMware Server
  • A complete automated optimization solution for VMware virtual drives in accordance with VMware recommendations.
  • Full defragmentation and free space consolidation of VMware virtual
    drives with PerfectDisk’s patented SMARTPlacement optimization scheme
    to improve virtual machine performance.
  • Automated reindexing of VMware internal drive structures for improved performance.
  • Automated shrinking and compaction of virtual drives to reclaim space.
  • Automated defragmentation, optimization and free space consolidation of host drives to improve host performance.
  • Installation required only on the host system.

 

  • PerfectDisk 2008 for Exchange
  • New
    support for Exchange 2007 to provide total automation of data store
    defragmentation/compaction for reclaiming Exchange disk space and
    improving Exchange performance.

 

  • PerfectDisk 2008 for Windows Home Server
  • All the enhancements of the Professional and Server editions now available for users in WHS environments.
  • With a wealth of new and expanded features specifically requested by
    users, along with the new VMware offerings, the release of the
    PerfectDisk 2008 family represents the broadest and most comprehensive
    offering ever by a disk defragmentation provider. Users can now ensure
    maximum performance and availability across their Windows environments
    – PCs and laptops, servers, VMware workstations and servers, Exchange
    servers and even Windows Home Server systems.

The vastly improved user interface with PerfectDisk 2008 makes an
already easy-to-use product a real pleasure to work with
,” said Russ
Howard, Systems/Programmer III at the University of Pittsburgh. “That,
along with several additional and valuable enhancements such as new
reports, selected files defrag and Space Explorer makes an already
outstanding product even better – Raxco Software has raised the bar
again
.”

With PerfectDisk 2008 for VMware, I can improve the performance of
VMware virtual disks and recover valuable host disk space
,” said Scott
J. Danesi, a technical consultant in Charlotte, North Carolina. “And
the best part is that I no longer have to do it all manually.

The PerfectDisk 2008 family is in direct response to our millions
of worldwide enterprise, small business and home users, and represents
our biggest leap forward in our thirty-year history
,” said Bob Nolan,
president and CEO of Raxco Software. “Not only have we made significant
performance, usability and feature enhancements to our core PerfectDisk
products, but with the addition of PerfectDisk for VMware, we’ve
addressed another huge hole in the virtualization performance arena. The world spoke, we listened, and we’ve delivered breakthrough solutions once again
.”

PerfectDisk 2008 Professional
pricing starts at $39.99 for a single license, while a single license
of PerfectDisk 2008 Server starts at $99.99 and PerfectDisk 2008 for
Exchange is priced at $399.99 per Exchange server. PerfectDisk 2008 for
VMware Workstation pricing starts at $99.99 per physical workstation
and PerfectDisk 2008 for VMware Server pricing starts at $199.99 per
server. PerfectDisk 2008 for Windows Home Server is priced at $39.99
for a single license and $99.99 for a home site license.



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