BURBANK, CA -- 11/09/09 --
Over the years, slowed system performance has
been like a murky lens through which IT has had to view every other
problem. There are always issues such as network traffic, load balancing
and application problems, among many others -- but performance has always
been there at the forefront, causing the highest number of help desk calls,
emergencies and overtime hours. All other "fires" just got thrown into the
mix.
At the bottom of most performance issues is usually file fragmentation. A
native issue to operating systems, fragmented files and free space cause
slow down performance and shorten hardware life all across an enterprise.
Unfortunately traditional defragmentation methods have wiped that murky
lens a bit cleaner, but have left considerable streak marks. Manual defrag means
considerable hours spent getting the job done. Scheduled defrag means time
put in figuring out when various systems can tolerate downtime for
maintenance -- and in between the runs that can be scheduled, fragmentation
continues to build and impact performance and reliability.
The only solution that takes IT attention completely off performance as a
problem -- wiping that lens clean -- is Diskeeper® automatic
defragmentation.
"Diskeeper has extended the life of our storage assets and changed the
business focus to storage capacity rather than storage performance," said
Jason Lantis, Network Administrator at Loud Technologies in Woodinville,
Washington. "That change alone has the pleasant side effect of reducing, if
not eliminating altogether, helpdesk requests about system performance."
Utilizing its proprietary InvisiTasking® technology, Diskeeper
defragments completely invisibly, in the background, utilizing resources
that would be otherwise idle. There is never a negative performance impact
on users, scheduling is never required, and performance and reliability are
consistently maximized.
"We rely on Diskeeper heavily to maintain disk performance on our SAN and
local OS server volumes," Lantis added. "InvisiTasking technology has been
a significant enhancement as far as managing system utilization for
defragmentation. It is probably one of the biggest reasons why we have begun
rolling out the desktop version as well to our XP/Vista machines."
Mike Lamar, Network Administrator at Northwest Mississippi Community
College in Senatobia, Mississippi, has had a similar experience. "We have 2
NAS units that we use for daily backups as well as storage," Lamar
reported. "Because of the large amount of data going in and out of the
units, we were having delays in read/write times. The NAS units are used to
store backups and user home folders. When we got Diskeeper, the servers
were completely fragmented. Now they are in a much better state and I don't
even have to manage them."
Diskeeper defrag allows
system personnel to take their attention off performance -- permanently.
Contact:
Colleen Toumayan
Email: ctoumayan@diskeeper.com
