On contemplating the impact of his calculating engine, the world’s first computer, Charles Babbage wrote “In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.” He said that in 1832.

I mention this because the idea holds true today—the bigness of everything, the immediacy of everything, the pace of everything—the greater the increase from one state to another, the more striking the difference. And that’s exactly why—when we put V-locity 4 trialware into the hands of virtualization wizards to test in their lairs—we want them to really, really put it through the wringer. The heavier the workload, the greater the application demand, the more striking the results.

Recently two virtualization pros got their hands on the V-locity 4 30-day trial, set up rigorous testing, and blogged the entire experience:

VMware technical architect amazed by V-locity 4 results

Another virtualization blogger amazed by V-locity 4

Diskeeper Corporation recently delivered a live webinar hosted by Ziff Davis Enterprise. The principle topics covered were:

• Measuring performance loss in Windows over SAN
• Identifying client-side performance bottlenecks in private clouds
• Expanding performance awareness to the client level
• The greatest and often-overlooked performance issue in a virtual ecosystem

The webinar was co-hosted by:

• Stephen Deming, Microsoft Partner Solution Advisor
• Damian Giannunzio, Diskeeper Corporation Field Sales & Application Engineer

Don't miss out on this critical data! If you missed the webinar, you can view the recorded version online here.

Here are some additional, relevant resources:

White Paper: Diskeeper 2011: Improving the Performance of SAN Storage

White Paper: Increasing Efficiency in the IT Environment

White Paper: Inside Diskeeper 2011 with IntelliWrite

White Paper: Running Diskeeper and V-locity on SAN Devices 

Recently, there’s been a lot of talk about built-in defragging systems. Is Windows®7 the best option? In the latest issue of Processor Magazine, experts weigh in, making the case for Diskeeper’s optimization in the enterprise. Read the whole article here: http://www.processor.com/articles//P3402/11p02/11p02.pdf?guid

As a long term VMware Premier Technology Alliance Partner, we're excited to now announce that V-locity has, after passing stringent testing, been certified by VMware as VMware Ready. V-locity is the first and only certified solution for virtual disk I/O optimization. 

You can see the product listed at VMware's site here.