Celebrating 30 years of leadership and innovation
defragmentation Corporate History

1978

Raxco Software founded as Raxco, Inc.
Late 1980's

Raxco is largest third-party provider of OpenVMS system utilities.
1995

Raxco Software receives U.S. patent for SMARTPlacement disk optimization strategy.
1997

PerfectDisk for Windows introduced with SMARTPlacement technology.
1999

Raxco pioneers ability to defragment all NTFS metadata and maintains this leadership position today.
2000

Symantec invests stake in Raxco Software.

PerfectDisk for Exchange introduced as the first utility to automate the defragmentation and compaction of Exchange data stores.
2002

PerfectDisk is the first disk defragmenter to support terabyte-plus volume drives

PerfectDisk is first defragmenter to work with as little as 5% free space and maintains this leadership position today.
2003

PerfectDisk is first enterprise disk defragmenter to support full integration with Microsoft's Active Directory.
2004

PerfectDisk becomes available in retail channels throughout the United States in stores such as CompUSA, OfficeMax, Frye's Electronics.
2005

PerfectDisk wins second consecutive PC Magazine Editors' Choice, Windows IT Pro Readers' Choice, Redmond Magazine Readers' Choice, Download.com's, About.com's and CHIPS Magazine's (Germany) 5-star awards, and Vector Users' Choice (Japan's largest download site) Award.

PerfectDisk for Exchange wins Windows IT Pro Magazine Readers' Choice award for Storage Management.

Raxco revolutionizes subscription-based defragmentation for Windows with PerfectDisk Live.
2006

First commercial defragmenter to officially support Windows Vista

Windows IT Pro Best Defragmentation Utility Reader's Choice Award for 2nd consecutive year.

Windows IT Pro Best Storage Management Software Reader's Choice Award for 2nd consecutive year
2007

Total PC health utility for home users introduced

First commercial defragmenter Certified for Windows Vista
2008

PerfectDisk 2008 family of products released. Includes industry first VMware optimization technology.