Some may feel that disk fragmentation is no longer an issue or that it is not an important thing to address or handle, what with malware running rampant, new viruses, spyware and Root kits that hide ...

In the age-old debate of “is it a bug or a feature”, fragmentation must fall square in the middle. A long time ago, files were stored wholly on a hard drive. It wasn’t long, though, before someone saw ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

Researchers have released a paper detailing a way to conceal data from the prying eyes of law enforcement officials by exploiting disk fragmentation on a clustered file system, thereby hiding it in ...

Diskeeper Corp. this week disclosed that it has developed of its most significant technological breakthroughs, which it said will prevent up to 85% of all fragmentation from ever occurring in Windows ...

Weighing in on a seemingly perennial question asked by system administrators, IT analysts Osterman Research is recommending that virtual machines be defragmented just as often as physical drives. “The ...

Is your hard drive running slow? Learn the common reasons behind sluggish performance and what you can do to speed it up.

Disk Defragmenter was a wonderful utility that Microsoft included with Windows back in the day. Back then, you’d use it to ...