Games Workshop Uses Paragon Alignment Tool

Paragon
Software
Group
(PSG), announced that Games Workshop LLC, the designer and manufacturer of fantasy miniatures, choses  Paragon
Alignment
Tool
(PAT) to boost server and workstation performance due to misaligned
partitions.

Games Workshop employs both a
modern VMware virtual server environment running
Windows 2008 Datacenter and a legacy physical server environment
running older Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 OS.

"We had a
number of older servers that we migrated into our virtual environment
and noticed that we did not get the performance that we expected."
said Jon Howell, North America IT director for Games Workshop. "A
little research revealed that since they were older OS versions, the
partitions were not aligned correctly. The Paragon alignment tool
cleaned things up nicely and increased the performance."

In the recently IHS iSuppli report Hard Disk Drive Pricing: Will it Reach
Pre-Flood Level in the Near Future?, prices for HDD are
expected to remain above pre-flood levels through 2014.

This partition alignment tool is made for
extending the life of hardware still utilizing older OSs; it also increase server performance for little
investment in time or dollars.

Partition Alignment Tool ESX
Benefits :

• Measurably increase I/O performance
  of virtual machines by a factor of 2X to 3X
• Control, manage, and align
  centrally and remotely dozens of virtual drives
  belonging to different virtual machines (no need to manually install
  software on every virtual machine)
• Reduces complexity and hardware
  requirements of alignment projects (no need for extra storage,
  because PAT performs in-place alignment – no migration required)

"As the use of virtual
machines continues to expand, partition alignment is becoming more
and more relevant to the IT departments that manage servers and
workstations utilizing older versions of Microsoft operating
systems." said Tom Fedro, president of Paragon Software
Group. "Paragon’s line of partition alignment software is
specifically designed with a powerful feature set and easy-to-use
interface to ensure maximum performance from older operating systems
running on new, advanced format drives (AFDs)."