IT Managers probably have mixed feelings about hardware refresh cycles. New hardware is great, but deployment can be challenging and even in the best of times, IT managers have to fight tooth-and-claw to justify replacement. While this has its benefits optimally you would also ensure that you are getting the full benefit of new and existing machines by employing practices like defrag to consolidate the randomly scattered incontiguous fragments of files and free space on the disk thereby increasing efficiency and reducing disk wear.

The benefits go far beyond just reducing hard drive wear as indicated in a survey of several hundred IT personnel where Windows® IT Pro concluded:

“The benefits of improved hardware reliability and system performance are clear; longer system life, more effective information delivery, improved user productivity. These are far beyond the benefits commonly associated with disk defragmentation and are the result of a comprehensive deployment of Diskeeper® data performance software.”

The survey noted "The majority of long-term Diskeeper users reported seeing the useful life of their hardware extended by up to two years" (See the full survey here)

Such reports are not surprising since consistent user complaints about system performance are the main catalysts behind hardware replacement. By using technology exclusive to Diskeeper 2011 such as IntelliWrite® fragmentation prevention technology you eliminate most fragmentation before it ever happens.

This approach curtails negative user experience so complaints are minimized while other features like automatic defrag reduce disk workload yielding less heat and energy consumption, further extending service life.

"Our Mechanical Engineers complained about computers only a year old and the best we could have purchased" explains Derik A. Hammond, IT Operations Supervisor, L-3 Communications/Photonics. "Programs were facing delays, engineers were having constant crashes and losing work; we were literally in a crisis. We deployed Diskeeper with excellent results. Bottom line - the machines we were being pushed to upgrade are still in use and they will actually make a 4-year life span thanks to Diskeeper.”

The survey also showed that databases and servers with Diskeeper ran faster and more reliably, satisfying their initial expectancy of improved system performance with longer hardware life as a welcome bonus.

A complete defrag solution as available exclusively in Diskeeper 2011 goes a long way in extending hardware life, giving IT managers more breathing room between site-wide refresh cycles.

For more information about Diskeeper and their products, contact Colleen Toumayan by email at ctoumayan@diskeeper.com or by phone at 800-829-6468 ext. 5305.

Often when a product has achieved a market leadership for an extended period of time, complacency can creep into its sense of innovation. Not so with Diskeeper.

Diskeeper® data performance software is the market and technology leader and has been for over a quarter century. In fact, over 90% of all defrag products sold are Diskeeper. It’s on site at more than 90% of all Fortune 1000 companies and over 40 million licenses have been sold. But the product has never stopped being innovated to meet the needs of contemporary business. And Diskeeper 2011 is a new and revolutionary turn of events for any IT manager interested in true efficiency. Why? The answer comes down to a concept: increase efficiency and reduce waste.

Taiichi Ohno, a visionary pioneer in the field of efficiency, defined waste broadly as “any human activity which absorbs resources but creates no value”. This concept, though simple, has had profound repercussions throughout all modern industry. The idea is based on creating a need-driven flow that generates higher effective throughput without the margins of waste typical of industry. Newly released Diskeeper 2011 forwards this spirit of efficiency.

Some legacy habits dictate that defragmentation, (making contiguous files that have been written in pieces and scattered randomly across a disk), be scheduled to occur after hours and without regard to the priority of importance of the files involved. For some, this method is so ingrained that completely obsolete methods of defrag—the freebie built-in for example—have attempted to be used in the corporate environment (which they were never intended for in the first place).

Allowing a system to fragment, is allowing a system to not only absorb resources to do work that has no value, but actually impedes other work from getting done. This is true waste. Worse, attempting to use these antiquated methods will now create human and system resource conflicts and as many IT managers have found they are resource intensive, won’t defrag free space, require administrative time (must be scheduled off production times) and in the end, don’t get the job done anyway.

In contrast, Diskeeper 2011 has evolved the concept of efficiency to maximize system productivity throughput through an entire set of technical innovations:

• Fragmentation prevention through the use of IntelliWrite® technology causes files to be written to disk contiguously up to 85% of the time.
• InvisiTasking® technology ensures zero resource conflicts when defrag is active.
• Instant Defrag™ technology detects and handles immediately the fragmentation of demand-driven files. 
• Efficient Mode handles only what is necessary for optimum efficiency. 

Fragmentation is waste and it is viral, with a long chain of consequences that leads to more work, more frequent system refreshes, and more hours spent for less result. Fragmentation lies at the logical level of every system on every Windows site. Diskeeper 2011 goes beyond defrag and is the only response that actually restores optimum efficiency without costing more. 

For more information about Diskeeper and their products, contact Colleen Toumayan by email at ctoumayan@diskeeper.com or by phone at 800-829-6468 ext. 5305.