Data Performance Technology Delivering System Longevity

BURBANK, Calif. -- Longevity is probably the number one wish for any mechanical device. In the case of a car, it may not be the fastest, it may not be the prettiest, it may not have every modern convenience, but if it’s consistently reliable and lasts through the years, that driver is going to be a happy one. The same could be said for any machine someone depends on, from a toaster to a printing press.

At the end of the day, an enterprise is simply concerned with getting the job done. Diskeeper brings longevity to systems to assist in reaching that goal for years to come.“Gordon Brothers has used Diskeeper for over 10 years on all of our Windows servers,” said Joe McEachern, Manager of Technology Operations at Gordon Brothers of Boston Massachusetts. “We began using Diskeeper on our PCs during the last 12 to 24 months. Diskeeper also contributes to us rarely needing to replace a failed hard drive.”There are numerous barriers to system longevity, most dealing with mechanical failures such as drive crashes. While it may seem that there are many potential causes such as the drive not being well-constructed or being inherently faulty, a drive can have considerable assistance in shortened life from excessive read and write I/Os caused by file fragmentation.Efficient Mode new in Diskeeper 2011 minimizes the time and resources used by Diskeeper to restore and maintain peak performance and reliability. New Efficient Mode is smart enough to detect fragmentation that is a problem and targets it for priority handling. The software further contains two unique technologies closely married together to achieve the ultimate in system performance: IntelliWrite® technology to prevent up to 85% of fragmentation before it ever happens—an industry first—and New Instant Defrag™ which understands how files are used and immediately defrags the ones that will be used right now.Longevity also means consistent performance—another benefit which Diskeeper provides. “System performance has improved significantly,” McEachern said. “Help Desk tickets related to performance have definitely decreased dramatically since we began using Diskeeper,”Because of today’s advanced computing technology resulting in far greater rates of fragmentation than ever before, simple defrag technology no longer fully addresses the issue. Diskeeper® 2011 data performance software goes beyond defrag with key technologies to give optimum system performance and longevity.Fragmentation is native to the file system, and it causes files and free space to be scattered about the disk in pieces (fragments). Because the system needs to seek out thousands or tens of thousands of fragments each time a file is read, a considerable toll is taken on hard drives. The same is also true when files must be written to severely fragmented free space. Fragmentation can reduce hard disk lives by 50 percent or more.

At the end of the day, an enterprise is simply concerned with getting the job done. Diskeeper brings longevity to systems to assist in reaching that goal for years to come.