Paragon has published a white paper :”Partition Alignment Dramatically Increases System Performance”.This white paper describes all major issues regarding partitions misalignment on 4K hard disk drives, solid state drives, RAID, SAN and in virtual environments.You also get a free license for Partition Alignment Tool along with this White Paper.

IDG UK and TuneUp United Kingdom are giving away free full version license of TuneUP Utilities 2009.Avail this offer while it’s still available.

VMware Workstation is a powerful application which can be used to run virtual machines.It is not available free of cost.However there a few free alternatives,Sun Virtual Box,Qemu,Microsoft Virtual PC.But none of them can compete with VMware WorkStation.VMware is faster and more efficient compared to the free alternatives.Its virtual Hard Disks can mounted and manipulated easily.The Host to Virtual Machine Networking is very good in VMware These features are lacking in the free alternatives.