Transcending Defrag: Performance and Reliability Software That Provides Real, Effective Solutions for Global IT Issues

Practical global solutions that make systems faster, more reliable and longer lived than ever before are now available – and their results far exceed the benefits of defrag alone.

File fragmentation was originally developed early on in mainframe computing as a method to better utilize expensive disk space when there was not enough space to write a file contiguously; this was done by breaking a file into pieces (fragments) when writing them to a drive. Unfortunately, the resulting fragmentation created many well-known performance and reliability issues. Defrag was an innovative solution for this condition which “re-assembled” not only the fragments into whole files but also consolidated free space resulting in improved performance and reliability.

Now Diskeeper^® performance software—developed by Diskeeper Corporation, the global leader in performance and reliability technology—has achieved the next phase in improved system performance by incorporating many performance-enhancing features in its products.

Utilizing a technology called IntelliWrite^® fragmentation prevention, Diskeeper prevents up to 85 percent of fragmentation by intelligently writing files without allowing them to fragment in the first place: fragmentation is actually prevented before it even occurs.

As reported by Jan Lokna, of Sor-Trondelag County Authority in Norway, “Diskeeper is doing an excellent job keeping our mission-critical servers running at full speed. I had a quick peek at the IntelliWrite stats on our main file server, and the number of eliminated fragments is measured in millions! Since we installed Diskeeper, unscheduled downtime has been kept to a minimum on those servers.”

Diskeeper also includes I-FAAST^® technology, which accelerates file access times by closely monitoring usage and strategically organizing the most frequently used files for the fastest possible access, typically resulting in up to 80 percent faster access time.

“The initial feedback we're getting from our end users is that performance improved after we implemented Diskeeper,” pointed out Ayman Nimer, Technology Services Segment Manager, Al Faisaliah Medical Systems, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. “End users had been suffering from slow access to databases and huge systems images. This is much better lately due to using Diskeeper Enterprise Server. Our main goal for using Diskeeper has been achieved and people are feeling the difference.”

Diskeeper Corporation’s proprietary InvisiTasking^® technology allows all Diskeeper tasks to be performed automatically, in the background. Using only idle system resources, there is never a negative performance impact on users or processes as a result of Diskeeper tasks. And this also means there’s no scheduling or manual operation needed.

Network Administrator Aaron Cowell of Davis College in Toledo, Ohio, USA, tells this story: “Diskeeper drastically improved our disk performance and kept it constant with the automatic defragmentation during idle time. Diskeeper not only helped with maintaining the disk performance, but also made it possible for quick disaster recovery.

“We had an old file server that crashed and file backups were being neglected, so we had to run file recovery on the RAID 5 array. Without Diskeeper automatically defragging the drive and keeping all the pieces of the files together, we would have lost 50% of the data; instead we were able to recover 95% of the 300 GB of information.”

It’s a vast world and IT problems require effective, efficient global solutions that are applicable anywhere and everywhere. Diskeeper performance software provides these global solutions by going above-and-beyond mere defrag to make systems faster, more reliable, more energy-efficient and longer-lived than ever before.