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Presenting V-locity.™ Breakthrough Technology for Virtual Performance. INDEX Looking forward: Looking forward: 3 1 essential technology for essential technology the virtual environment for the enterprise 3 V-locity: Breakthrough technology release

V-locity & return on 6 Diskeeper Corporation is the industry leader of technologies that enhance investment. the performance and reliability of Windows® computers. Founded in 1981, Diskeeper is a multinational corporation with headquarters in Burbank, A history of Diskeeper 8 innovation California, and corporate offices in England and Hong Kong. The Diskeeper product line is distributed widely across the globe. Customer testimonials 10 Launched to an overwhelming success, Diskeeper Corporation has sold over & success 35,000,000 copies of their flagship product—making it the most widely used 11 Diskeeper world news automatic defragmenter on earth. In the United States alone, over 450 of the Fortune 500 and millions of home users rely on Diskeeper software to provide constant speed and reliability to their Windows-based laptops, desktops and It’s not just a lucky stroke of fortune that made effectively regardless of servers. Diskeeper Corporation the industry leader in essential the IT challenges that arise. “We continue to innovations that enhance performance and reliability. As our customers–from VOLUME 4 ISSUE 14 We’ve upheld that standard for every one of our twenty- small offices to Fortune define what’s three years through intense work and continuous 100 global enterprises–tell development. We create solutions that become core us repeatedly, it would possible- Dai Vu, Director by Virtualization Products, infrastructure performance fundamentals. This is because cost them more NOT to Microsof Real-time our research and development is based on real surveyed use our products. achieving the Zero overhead needs of our customers. It’s not enough to “push the Diskeeper Corporation’s knowledgable customer service envelope”; we are driven to create the envelope and It doesn’t take a representitives are available to answer your questions, impossible. give a custom ROI analysis of your system needs or continue to define what’s possible by achieving the fortune-teller to see that ” provide quick, no commitment quotes. impossible. information technology has Virtual Platform Disk developed to the point where virtualization not only makes ™ Call direct 800-829-6468, send an email to Optimizer for Hyper-V Diskeeper Corporation invented automatic disk sense, it is in fact a fundamental path to the future. We [email protected] or to one of these professionals: defragmentation and did so at a time when many thought saw this coming and have just released V-locity™, the first fragmentation wasn’t an issue. They incorrectly associated virtual platform disk optimizer that adds real intelligence and Rick Grassi - [email protected] its debilitating effects with other causes and wasted ensures maximum performance and reliability to virtual sites. Holleigh Taufer - [email protected] Real-Time Protection huge amounts of time and money trying to fix them. Our ™ { Rachael Jackson - [email protected] Real-Time Recovery customers saved a fortune by simply using Diskeeper. Frankly, it is essential technology for the virtual enterprise and all of us need it. As applications, services and utilities proliferated on FOR GENERAL INFORMATION on Diskeeper Corporation or systems, we developed a better way to allocate resources As you’ll see in the pages of this issue, V-locity is yet any of our products, please e-mail, phone or write to us. Solid State Drive If there is specific information you require, contact any of the and allow a program to run completely in the background – another indispensable Diskeeper Corporation standard and Optimizer for PCs representitives above and they will be happy to help. InvisiTasking®. To paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke, InvisiTasking one that all other efforts will be judged against. Diskeeper Corporation Tel: (800) 829-6468 is so advanced it is nearly indistinguishable from magic; 7590 N. Glenoaks Blvd. Fax: (818) 252-5514 when InvisiTasking is running, a system actually runs faster Burbank, California E-mail: [email protected] 91504 USA www.diskeeper.com than when InvisiTasking is paused. Zero system overhead application technology TECH SUPPORT [email protected] Diskeeper Corporation products are investments in your MEDIA CONTACTS Colleen Toumayan - [email protected] company’s continuing ability to work efficiently and cost Derek De Vette - [email protected] case with virtualization, where fragmentation continues to exist Provisioning hardware that is capable of supporting in Windows volumes encapsulated within virtual hard disks. So, requirements is typically the initial step in designing a virtual A breakthrough release! a combination of fragmentation and virtualization tremendously infrastructure. However, Virtualization Administrators will need increases traffic to the storage system. to combine both hardware and software symbiotically to 5 Presenting new intelligence achieve their ultimate goal of consolidating physical systems Disk fragmentation in a virtual environment and increasing efficiencies while averting bottlenecks. for virtual environments. As we described earlier, solving fragmentation is a Fragmentation appears as soon as file segments are paramount software consideration that correlates closely to distributed into noncontiguous logical space, which typically hardware performance. In fact, adding more disk spindles to translates quite directly to physical space. In the case of virtual increase disk I/O performance is the most common misapplied systems (see image), fragmentation occurs within each virtual solution for file fragmentation (on both virtual and physical Virtual machines are the future and loaded with potential Defining virtual hard disks hard disk by that Guest OS, and on the virtual platform (e.g. systems). benefits. However, unknown until now, virtualization can Hyper-V – which uses NTFS) itself. In all cases, from consumer to enterprise application become a costly experiment in bottlenecked performance There are numerous methods for storing these VMs on Splattering the various parts of files rather than writing a of the technology, file fragmentation undoubtedly remains a and wasted disk space. hypervisor managed disk subsystems. In most cases, each file contiguously, results in a slow hard drive now having to major governing factor for the performance ceiling of virtual instance of a “guest” stores its whole data & move mechanical parts to locate all the fragments for a given machines. The remainder of this paper will explore the We have a solution. V-locity™, the world’s only virtual tasks, logs, etc in a single file (.vhd, .vmdk, etc…) commonly file. performance benefits of solving fragmentation and the specific platform disk otpimizer. Read this white paper excerpt by known as a virtual hard disk. Other options are supported on Obviously, accessing the various fragments of files, technological needs that an enterprise virtual infrastructure Bernard Marx, PHD, of Topix Technologies. various hypervisor solutions such as “pass through” disks. disseminated in several places, considerably slows down requires from such a solution. The various virtual disk types all have their respective benefits access speed. It will be necessary, on each host and each guest, under and drawbacks and numerous publications already offer best The more virtual machines there are the more aggregate Windows, to implement a defragmentation solution; ideally one practices for choosing the appropriate type based fragmentation. In fact, the greater the with the ability to communicate between Platform virtualization on the system’s purpose. current degree of fragmentation (as the host and its guests. consists of creating one or The ’single’ virtual file fragmentation increases VIRTUAL disk file is at present the HARD V-locity™ unlocks the full potential of more virtual instances of the likelihood of free space DISKS an operating system most common, as fragmentation) the greater the your virtual system. (OS), typically known it allows for easier probability each new file created will ® as a Guest OS or migrations and fragment. V-locity with InvisiTasking VM (virtual machine), clustering support Shortly, this accumulating technology currently installs on both ® which is under the for the virtual hard fragmentation results in a deceleration Hyper-V™ disk, and depending on of virtual platform performance. It also HOST and all Windows virtual machines false impression that SYSTEM it exclusively owns the VIRTUAL PLATFORM DISK OPTIMIZER FOR HYPER-V™ your choice of virtualization causes perverse effects: a greater (guests). Each component optimizes hardware on which it believes it is platform, there are effectively monopolization of the resources and its respective Windows OS and directly installed. two types. One type is a single virtual of I/O. performs defragmentation of files Platform virtualization “host” software “Fragmentation hard disk file of a fixed size. The benefits In extreme cases they are likely to and consolidation of free space. This is designed to allocate physical resources of such a file are relatively high and compromise the reliability of the architecture with consequences minimizes unnecessary I/O passed from the OS to the disk (hardware, CPU, memory, etc) statically appears as soon predictable performance at the cost of which go from slow performance annoyance to disastrous subsystem and aligns data on the drives for optimal access. or dynamically across virtual machines/ likely pre-allocating more physical storage system and application “freezes” or hangs. guest operating systems. as file segments space than necessary to accommodate V-locity accomplishes the following: While this ”host” software can growth. Another virtual disk type is a disk Virtualization considerations are distributed into • Completely eliminates “fragmentation on top of be an application run on a full blown that allocates physical space only as fragmentation” accumulation that plagues all virtual general purpose OS, more commonly in noncontiguous needed, at the cost of some performance There is a world of difference between casual use of platforms. enterprise IT infrastructures a virtualization overhead. Again the choice of the disk Parallel Desktop™ on a Mac (to emulate a PC) and a Hyper-V logical space.” • Optimizes virtual platform performance without impacting host is a specialized software layer (a type should be based on the business platform set up to concurrently run tens or even hundreds of active resources on the host or guest systems. thin “hypervisor”), better streamlined for service level agreements. virtual machines at, or close to, physical system performance hosting multiple Guest OS’es on a shared platform. This direct levels. • Analyzes waste in a virtual disk space and allows one click installation is often, in the context of virtualization terminology, The disk is still the weak link Without a doubt, hypervisor-based solutions are a must VHD compaction. referred to as a bare metal OS or Type-1 hypervisor. Common for enterprise needs. The hypervisor’s thin framework is examples of ‘Type-1’ hypervisor software include Hyper-V™, While virtualization inexorably adds additional software far superior in minimizing the overhead of that added layer XenServer™, ESX™ Server. overhead, the physical limitation of mechanical disk drives is of software. At present, implementing a hypervisor-based This cutting-edge solution is only available from Diskeeper It is important to note that each hypervisor or guest still the bottleneck. virtualization infrastructure is still relatively complex, requiring Corporation, the industry leader in performance Processors and memory can carry out instructions of carries out independently its own applications as if it were the powerful hardware, sophisticated management tools, and technology, at limited time new release pricing! To read magnitude faster than mechanical disks. Therefore, the slower a very high level of IT competency in order to achieve a only system on the “physical” hardware. This is perhaps the the rest of this white paper and review test results for the disk (disk subsystem) is, the slower the entire system runs. satisfactory result. most critical concept to communicate, as addressing this is yourself, visit: www.diskeeper.com/v-locity/index.aspx arguably the most difficult and most significant consideration This problem worsens unceasingly as the level of disk requests Maintaining a high service level agreement (SLA) for an IT professional looking to implement a virtualization increases, with fragmentation exacerbating the amount of disk requires deep knowledge of production requirements that For 30-day trialware, visit: www.diskeeper.com/v-trial solution. I/Os required to fulfill a request. core business applications such as DBMS will generate. And you may have already guessed this is particularly the We will be happy to do this analysis for you free of charge, to Our simulation of the economic impact of show you how much you can save by adopting V-locity. Just V-locity on a 1,000 user installation resulted in contact us at 800-829-6468. the following compelling economic benefits: To give you a sense for the economic impact of V-locity, Recovery of all your investment in V-locity V-locity and we have created a model to simulate its economic impact on a due to hardware and other hard dollar savings “typical” corporation with 1,000 knowledge workers (employees in only 10 months Breakthrough technology. the bottom line who use a PC). Whether the VMs are virtual desktops or virtual Once we also factored in the savings servers hosting user data and apps, the ROI considerations are of time and improvements in productivity Breakthrough pricing. quite comparable. (according to a very conservative estimate), In virtualized environments, taking into account the payback time was reduced to only 6 ½ While the performance numbers do speak for themselves, infrastructure variance (i.e. Number of host servers, number of months! it is always important to qualify technical data from a business virtual machines per host, OS used on VMs, etc), and given perspective; namely, “how much money will this make/save”. the base costs of V-locity licenses , the return on investment The ROI on V-locity is over 100%, you get It comes down to dollars and cents and to the return on the of such a solution is well under one year based solely on paid back in the first year! investment made. The great news is that V-locity, the world’s hard dollar savings, for a typical installation. Once you factor only virtual platform disk optimizer for Windows® Server 2008 in conservative estimates for operational time savings and Hyper-V™, offers not only outstanding performance, but also productivity gains, the payback comes in under 7 months. Here are the assumptions behind the very substantial cost savings. Frankly, V-locity is an obvious Get paid fast with V-locity! numbers in the text based on 1,000 investment to make in these times of economic difficulties, While each computer network is differently configured workstations: as it enables a company to reduce capital expenditures and and obviously subjected to different utilization patterns and benefit from measurable savings in hardware and other hard demands, we have found that V-locity saves money in several 1. V-locity cost of $149.99 for each dollar costs, as well as sizeable time savings and employee different ways: of 250 CPU cores, total $37,497.50, productivity gains. V-locity is a must-do investment if you care • It reduces the average failure rate (AFR) of hard disk drives rounded to $37,500 about the performance and reliability of your systems and about by more than half ™ the financial health of your company. • In addition to avoiding so many catastrophic disk failures, it 2. Hardware savings per annum from: VIRTUAL PLATFORM DISK OPTIMIZER FOR HYPER-V also extends the useful life of HDDs at peak performance a. HDD AFR rate reduction from How much money can you save? by a year or more 10.5% to 4% : 65 HDD x $199.95 • It cuts down on the need for user support each = $12,996.75 Virtual machines are the future and loaded with potential benefits. However, unknown until now, virtualization can No two system installations are identical across different • It reduces energy consumption b. HDD useful life increased from 3 to 4 years become a costly experiment in bottlenecked performance companies. At Diskeeper we have developed a customizable • It eliminates significant wait time for users every time they i. 1,000 units x $199.95 cost ROI Calculation Program to assess the cost savings and load up or save a file, which translates to greatly improved and wasted disk space. We have a solution. spread over 3 years is $66,650 productivity gains your company will get upon installing V-locity. productivity. ii. 1,000 units x $199.95 cost V-locity is the only solution for full virtual disk optimization: spread over 4 years is $49,987 iii. Savings is $66,650 – 49,987 = Completely eliminates the "fragmentation The Diskeeper Corporation Maintenance Agreement– $16,662 on top of fragmentation" accumulation that plagues all virtual platforms. protect your volume license investment. 3. User support / Help desk – estimated 240 hours, (average 15 minutes saved Optimizes virtual platform performance per workstation per year), of an IT without impacting active resources on the professional @ $56/hour = $13,440 host or guest systems. Receive upgrades You can have the most current version of Diskeeper— • Efficiency: have the latest and greatest versions of per annum at a savings of up to 50%.* Diskeeper Corporation the software, which always includes the new est automatically Maintenance Programs are available for volume license. features and enhancements. 4. Time Savings and Productivity Gains Analyzes waste in a virtual disk space and when new software With a 1 or 2-year Diskeeper maintenance agreement, With a maintenance agreement on your volume license of a savings of: allows one click VHD compaction. versions are released you’re guaranteed to get new versions of Diskeeper at no software, you will be among the first to automatically receive 10 secs/file x 10 files/day x 220 additional cost. Purchasing maintenance for your volume your free upgrade to your product during the agreement days x 1,000 users x $42/hour / license gives you a dramatic cost savings of up to 50% period. This way, you always stay up-to-date on your 3,600 seconds/hour = $256,667 compared to an upgrade purchase. Maintenance can pay software, have the newest technology available and enjoy per annum of potential savings and, for itself with only one upgrade! the benefits. considered only 10% of that as “real Maintenance Program Benefits: A maintenance agreement also provides the advantage of economic recovery”, to be Call 800-829-6468 code 4218 for a quote • Free updates and upgrades provided automatically. being able to budget your software costs for the next 1-2 conservative about it = $25,667 per years (depending on contract length). and take advantage of customer only discounts. • Cost Savings: our 1 or 2-year maintenance program is annum up to 50% less than the cost for buying upgrades. If you have any questions regarding the Diskeeper Corporation Maintenance Program, please contact Total estimated annual savings is: Or try V-locity free for 30-days at: • Easy Budget Management: our renewable your favorite reseller or a Diskeeper Corporation sales $12,997+16,662+13,440+25,667 = maintenance programs make it easy to budget for representative at 800-829-6468 code 4218. $68,766 per annum. Compared to http://www.diskeeper.com/v-trial future expenses. Furthermore, no additional costs are an investment of $37,500 this gives a incurred for upgrades as they are covered under the Haven’t tried new Diskeeper 2009 yet? Download it now! maintenance program. www.diskeeper.com/d-trial payback in only 6.5 months with an ROI well over 100%. • Convenient Website Downloads: quick and easy * Savings depends on product purchased and volume license level of software. access to downloading updates from our site. Diskeeper Corporation’s tradition of innovative software products enhancing performance and reliability of file systems based on Solid carefully crafted set of processes developed by our founder, himself a was begun by our founder, Craig Jensen. From the first, Diskeeper State Disks (SSDs). technical guru, we build in quality at every step of product engineering. 9 Corporation has been driven by a genuine care for our customers with Innovation focused on performance, reliability and cost Perhaps the greatest testament to our success is evidenced by the A history the clear goal to enhance our customers’ systems’ performance and effectiveness is a way of life at Diskeeper. fact that the millions and millions of licensed products we have on increase the reliability of those systems while extending system life. Our patented InvisiTasking® technology has been one such the market today are well supported by a team of only six technical Each of our products is engineered to address real problems that innovation. Our R & D team invented the means of utilizing system specialists! of firsts : are severely damaging our customers’ computer systems and as a resources (primarily I/O or CPU) without impacting any other function Repeating the theme of reliability and performance enhancement, result limit their success. By providing solutions to these problems, of the system. This allows functions such as defragmentation to we often partner with companies in order to provide the best possible we increase productivity. Our success is tied to the success of our occur concurrent with use of the system but without any impact product for our customers. For more than a decade we’ve partnered innovation customers. on system performance. Our goal was to accomplish necessary with Microsoft. Other partners include manufacturers: Intel, Lenovo, HP Our core expertise is with file systems and storage solutions, both system functions, not with minimal performance impact, but with and Dell. Through these partnerships we jointly deliver to the customer driven by hardware and software. We leverage this expertise to create and no performance impact. R & D exceeded this expectation; it was enhanced reliability and performance not otherwise attainable. supply innovative solutions at lower levels as well as the enterprise demonstrable that our flagship product Diskeeper with InvisiTasking Our goal is obtaining the greatest performance and highest reliability level. Taking an enterprise level view of our customers’ operations, improves performance while it runs! Thus functions can be performed possible. It’s a great technical challenge for our engineering teams customer with detailed technical know-how at the system and device levels, automatically without any need for scheduling or impacted usage! All and so we take great pride in hearing of customers’ success with our we have been able to create products that enormously increase the of our products today incorporate InvisiTasking to give the customer products. overall productivity of the computer systems and consequently the the greatest performance and reliability. needs. enterprise. Another aspect of reliability applies to our software itself. The Ed Beckmann is the senior Technical Executive at Diskeeper Corporation Each Diskeeper product is geared for increased productivity for Diskeeper Corporation tradition is a high level of product quality to in charge of product development. by Ed Beckmann the enterprise even if its scope may be at a storage device level, e.g. truly deliver the promised performance and reliability. 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Diskeeper introduces first offline "boot-time" defragmetnation technology to optimize system files and meta data that cannot be processed safely offline Diskeeper first full native x64 third-party defragmenter available Diskeeper 5.0 introduces fragmentation protection technology with Frag Guard (now called Frag Shield) Diskeeper 10 introduces revolutionary I-FAAST – first ever file optimizer designed to boost speeds of important files beyond defrag alone Diskeeper Corp partners with Microsoft to co-create the mechnisms to integrate internal defrag functions First defragmenter to into Windows OS offer Screen Saver 9.0 first defragmenter to introduce HyperFast, solid state mode defragmentation disk throttling technology with I/O Smart drive optimizer for PCs Diskeeper dynamic defragmentation technology delivers fastest defrag available–until the advent of real-time defrag a decade later Diskeeper the first and only continuing major defragmenter available for First major commerical defragmenter Diskeeper 7.0 first defragmenter to announce support for Diskeeper is released as the first ever online automatic to offer ability to deploy software based processors is available defragmenter and soon becomes the best selling third party Diskeeper is the first ever defragmenter across a network product for OpenVMS operating systems certified for Windows, starting a long Leveraging InvisiTasking, Diskeeper 2007 V-locity virtual running verification process that helps is the first and only invisible defragmenter platform disk maintain code reliability to operate in real-time optimizer

Network Undelete 1.0 Diskeeper 8, the first disk defragmenter First defrag to solve volumes (now Undelete) is the first to provide independent network with less than 1% free space 1986191 86 19911991 1996 ever complete real-time file 20010 management console 20062006 2009 protection technology I/O Express revolutionizes I/O caching for Windows servers Diskeeper 6.0 introduces first ever Diskeeper 8 introduces revolutionary First commercial Titan Defrag Engine is another "intelligent scheduling" with heuristic approach to handling terabyte sized defragmenter to offer a Frag Guard for OpenVMS introduces new technology first designed to "Smart Scheduling” technology drives with Terabyte Volume Engine VSS-compatible mode file fragmentation prevention technology handle 10-20TB volumes Diskeeper 1.0 For Windows NT 3.51 is the first defragmenter for Windows NT Diskeeper first defragmenter to support the InvisiTasking technology revolutionizes background processing with Only defragmenter entire active Windows OS list (Windows 95 and Diskeeper for Windows NAS with native IPv6 support up) (older OSes still supported with older versions) (Network Attached Storage) systems zero overhead

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These customer stories optimized and running driverless loaders or trucks finding out exact improvement >>> HUGETECH BUNDLES ITS SSDs WITH illustrate the benefits of smoothly as when new. This hundreds of meters below the numbers. I would say our tested, including cases where the boot process completes ® 99% uptime, backups cut in saves us at least 20 IT hours surface. performance help desk calls DISKEEPER 2009 WITH HYPERFAST. over 10 seconds faster. Tests on the Windows 7 Release half, maximum performance per month. Likewise, because were affected the most. Those Candidate demonstrated similar results. Improvements from with minimal impact due to of the continuous optimization Jimmy Beltran type of trouble tickets just do “Diskeeper Corporation in Hong Kong has added a new OEM this new technology translate into as much as 20% faster InvisiTasking® technology, of the user programs on Sandvik SIT Americas not happen anymore. to its list of customers in Asia. This new OEM is Hugetech, an boot-times. long-lasting hardware, and the servers, our users have Lotus Notes Administrator, “Conewago has recycled innovative company that sells Solid State Drives (SSDs) and HelpDesk calls drastically experienced a 99.97% uptime Systems Specialist – computers every 4 years cut down. They are all over the past 12 months. Domino but now with the struggling other storage devices in the growing Chinese market under the Manny Salinas, President of Diskeeper Corporation noted from busy production The prior 12 months was economy we are letting ASAX brand. that “we expect to offer this solution to consumers and systems utilizing SQL, RAID, only about 91% uptime due “Diskeeper continues to computers go as long as we corporations alike, but a key initiative is to make this VMware, Domino servers to all the disk-related issues. play an important role in can and are finding computers “Hugetech and Diskeeper offer a great value to Chinese technology available directly to computer manufacturers.” and 3D CAD systems. All I was hired about that time keeping both client and server that are more then 5 - 6 years users looking for a quality SSD at an affordable price. vital issues for showing the and insisted that we install systems optimized for peak old that are still running great Hugetech bundles its SSDs with Diskeeper® 2009 Home with usefulness of Diskeeper in a Diskeeper on all the servers. performance with minimal with Diskeeper deployed. Director of Product Management, Michael Materie added that manufacturing environment. This has definitely paid off.” management. We see a daily “When I was first told HyperFast™ technology for SSD optimization. In this way, “this is far more than a unilateral consumer technology, and benefit from the InvisiTasking about the new Automatic ASAX SSDs benefit from the improvements in performance has tremendous appeal to the global Windows community”. - Karen Bakshoian The Banker Steel team feature, which keeps our Defrag option in Diskeeper and reliability that HyperFast provides and any other HDD By offering near-immediate boot up, corporations will be able Testimonial Manager coordinates design releases system disks optimized using and how it would defrag the used in the user’s system is kept at its maximum speed with to enforce green computing policies and cut energy costs for mill order low-cost, full- resources during idle times to individual computers during Diskeeper. The final result is a system that always runs at significantly without lost productivity. Materie concluded service structural steel. ensure maximum performance the work day and the users with minimal impact to users. would not even notice it top speed while maintaining the maximum level of reliability that “Workstations can now be powered off at night without “We run an application Mark A. Gainer “The Diskeeper running, I was skeptical, to in all the possible types of storage media used.” - Modesto incurring the lost production the following business day as that specifically benefits from Director, Information Administrator allows us to say the least. I tried it on Rodriguez- Executive Vice President, Global Strategic Alliances users power up the system and then go get coffee.” Diskeeper - a SQL-based Technology, Banker Steel keep our systems in check, some of our biggest power large database program Company minimizing interruption to users and didn’t tell them I >>> MAJOR TECHNICAL BREAKTHROUGH IN Diskeeper Corporation believes that the dramatic improvement that keeps all of its data in Lynchburg, VA users and optimizing IT changed anything. A couple WINDOWS BOOT-TIMES. one huge file. Diskeeper maintenance activities. of weeks later I went to all of in boot times will provide a high-demand product differentiation keeps the drive optimized so “We are running “I would recommend them individually and asked to system builders. EVP of Business Strategy, Modesto efficiently that we’ve noticed Diskeeper EnterpriseServer Diskeeper to anyone them if they noticed anything With boot up performance becoming a major purchase Rodriguez, confirmed that “We expect to see this technology a significant decrease in on our Domino Lotus Notes responsible for maintaining different about their PC’s and consideration for consumers, and even enterprises evaluating shipping from OEMs in Q3 of this year as we already have database lockups. Also, application and also on the computer systems.” every one of them said the new desktop, laptop and netbook providers, Diskeeper numerous household brand computer OEMs who have our Microsoft Exchange mail servers. We are running computer had been running Corporation announced a major technical breakthrough in the expressed significant interest and are moving forward.” server gets a big boost from these across several RAID 5 Eric Carel better than when it was brand Diskeeper. arrays encompassing over Network Systems new. field of Instant On computing. “We have a couple of 2.75 terabytes of user data. Supervisor, Baldwin Filters “Since then, we have >>> DISKEEPER®2009 SERVER/ADMIN RECEIVES VMware virtual machines that It used to take us 25 hours to deployed Diskeeper to all of Even with increasingly more powerful hardware, the time it STELLAR REVIEW FROM IT PRO UK MAGAZINE. have gained benefits from perform our weekly backup of “Diskeeper is an absolutely our users and the HelpDesk takes to boot Windows operating systems has increased. Diskeeper too. Most notable is the Domino Servers. By using great product that our calls have been drastically cut While Microsoft continues to make improvements, many “With all serious competition falling by the wayside over the our barcode scanning system Diskeeper, we were able to company has been using for down. Now if I get a HelpDesk vendors have offered alternative solutions that allow users to that gets hammered by read/ reduce our backup time down about 4 or 5 years now. The call about a slow computer, past few years, Diskeeper is now in the enviable position write access 24x7. Very to 9 hours. By enabling the original product we started it’s because somehow we boot to alternate operating systems. But what if you could of having virtually no competition in the disk defrag market. seldom have I had to restart automatic defragmentation using was good but nothing forgot to install Diskeeper on boot up Windows in the same time it takes to boot an alternate Businesses that are convinced of the need to keep their the program since Diskeeper feature, we increased the like Diskeeper. This program the machine in the first place. system? The pioneers of increasing computer performance servers and desktops regularly defragged need look no was installed. performance of the drive is simply amazing. It is so Then we simply install, let it have made the unimaginable come true. further as Diskeeper 2009 is an accomplished product and “All ten of our servers have array on live production lightweight, easy to use and run and that fixes the problem the Administrator component provides slick centralised RAID technology and since systems with no user impact keeps the computers running they were having. In the end Diskeeper was installed about other than an increase in like new. It is nice to work a smoother-running network Diskeeper Corporation is in the final production stages of management.” 15 months ago, we have performance.” with a company that spends of computers means my a solution to speed the boot process of Windows based only had to rebuild one of the so much time and resources staff and I can spend more operating systems. Extensive tests performed on Windows MEDIA CONTACTS server’s RAID one time. Sandvik’s AutoMine system is in getting their products to run time on other things and be XP utilizing different hardware from a variety of manufacturers, Colleen T oumayan - t [email protected] “Our ROI has been in a highly innovative automation as well as yours do. more productive with fewer shows significant boot-time improvements on every system Derek De Vette - [email protected] productivity savings. The system where operators “The results from use of interruptions from annoying IT staff does not have to can sit in the control room Diskeeper by our test group help desk calls.” run utility and maintenance on the surface and monitor were so obvious that we really programs to keep the servers the movements of a fleet of didn’t need to spend time on Adam Hicks - IT Manager www.diskeeper.com/blog/ www.facebook.com/pages/DiskeeperR/63704808929 twitter.com/ diskeeper Presorted Standard U.S. Postage PAID Permit 52 Arcadia, CA 91006 7590 N. 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