PerfectDisk 2008 by Raxco Software’s for VMware Boosts Virtualization Performance and Reclaims Space

    Raxco has joined VMware’s Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) Program.

    The leader in disk defragmentation software, Raxco Software, today announced that it has joined VMware’s Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. Raxco Software, as a formal member of the program, As a formal member of the program, will provide IT organizations with a unique solution that automatically optimizes the VMware® Workstation and Server environments, through its PerfectDisk® 2008 family of performance and storage management products.

    Through a single installation on the host machine, PerfectDisk 2008 for VMware provides complete disk defragmentation of all the host’s drives and the virtual machines’ drives, automatically reindexes VMware data structures, and shrinks the virtual drives to reclaim disk space. This unique offering helps organizations ensure their VMware environments are running as fast as possible and making the most efficient use of disk space.

    “Virtual environments present some unique challenges for enhancing and maintaining optimal performance and maximizing storage use,” said Joe Abusamra, vice president of operations at Raxco Software. “We’ve leveraged our years of Windows performance and storage expertise to bring a unique solution to VMware users with our PerfectDisk 2008 for VMware offering. Now VMware users can improve performance and reclaim disk space easily and automatically.”

    To deliver this enhanced value to the companies’ shared customers, Raxco Software has teamed with VMware through the VMware TAP Program.

Raxco Software has been helping large enterprises, small businesses, and consumers with their computer resource management needs for thirty years. Its PerfectDisk 2008 is Windows® Certified by Microsoft® for Vista and Windows Server® 2008, and optimized for Windows XP. The PerfectDisk line has a long award-winning history, most notably its perfect 5-star review from CNET Download, winner of the Windows IT Pro Readers’ Choice Awards for Defragmentation Utility and Storage Management Tool, Redmond Magazine’s Best of the Best Award, and PC Magazine’s Editors’ Choice award. Raxco also produces optimization software, for HP’s OpenVMS operating system.