Diskeeper Surveys IT Administrators: Defrag Revealed as Vital as Antivirus

Diskeeper Corporation revealed findings of a recent IT study showing Defragmentation and Antivirus as the two most important practices for IT administrators.

A panel of 179 Network Administrators was surveyed recently on the software they considered vital to have on their Servers: 48% responded with "Antivirus/Symantec" and 45%, "Defrag/Diskeeper".

These results show how fragmentation and performance related issues have become the core of IT Managers' concerns; All Windows systems suffer from fragmentation but servers are particularly affected by it. Because of multiple user traffic, it is common to see some files broken into thousands - even millions of fragments. This causes a host of intolerable problems such as slow-downs, longer back-ups and anti-virus scans, performance bottlenecks, odd conflicts between applications and crashes.

Diskeeper 2008(R) Server Edition represents the best tool to optimize networks and bring them back to their maximum performance or to prevent their fragmentation in the first place. It does it automatically with no intervention needed on the part of the IT Administrator.

Defrag is performed transparently in the background with InvisiTasking(TM ), Diskeeper's innovative technology that runs in real time, using only idle resources.
InvisiTasking is efficiently combined with I-FAAST(TM) (Intelligent File Access Acceleration Sequencing Technology) that closely monitors file usage and organises the most commonly utilised files for the fastest possible access, boosting file reads and writes up to 80%.

Not only is defrag recognized as a priority in the system maintenance process, it also enables anti-virus scans to run much quicker.

To obtain an exclusive copy of the latest white papers as well as a free trial version of Diskeeper 2008 Server, visit http://www.diskeepereurope.com.

About Diskeeper Corporation - Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies(TM):

With over 30 million licences sold, small businesses to large enterprises rely on Diskeeper software to provide unparalleled performance and reliability to their laptops, desktops and servers. Diskeeper Corporation further provides up-to-the-minute data protection and instant file recovery with Undelete(R).

(c) 2008 Diskeeper Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Diskeeper, I-FAAST, Undelete, Terabyte Volume Engine, InvisiTasking and Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies are trademarks owned by Diskeeper Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

HSBC France: a Decade of Maximum Performance and Reliability With Diskeeper

HSBC France has experienced major benefits from costs savings and better overall productivity after integrating Diskeeper(R) on its two data-centres.

Didier Guieu, System-Architecture Engineer at HSBC France, stated: "Performance has improved, back up and data access time have been considerably reduced. We win both in terms of time and money."
In 1998, Didier Guieu observed that high levels of fragmentation were slowing down the overall system performance.
He relates: "Hours were needed to copy large amount of data, and back ups were not concluding. We noticed that when the server was fragmented, the back up time sometimes needed twice as long to run."

A high number of help desk calls were also related to fragmentation issues and were monopolizing the technicians' availability.
Mr Guieu chose Diskeeper to resolve these issues. He explains: "Diskeeper can defragment big volumes, with minimum impact on the system."
After just one week, Diskeeper reduced significantly the number of problems and errors previously experienced on the server by HSBC France.

The new technology InvisiTasking(TM) was particularly appreciated: "The product is transparent. It has no impact on applications. Users don't notice that Diskeeper is working. This way, servers' performance can stay on top at all times."

Didier Guieu concluded: "We are really satisfied with the improvements delivered by Diskeeper which totally answered all our needs."

HSBC Group is solidly established in Europe, Asia, America, Middle East and African areas, with offices in 82 countries and territories.
HSBC France holds a network of 380 agencies; in addition to this are 400 agencies of 7 regional banking branches, member of the HSBC Group.

For more information on HSBC France and its services, visit http://www.hsbc.fr.

To obtain an exclusive copy of the latest case studies and white papers as well as a free trial version of Diskeeper 2008, visit http://www.diskeepereurope.com.

About Diskeeper Corporation - Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies(TM):

With over 30 million licences sold, small businesses to large corporations rely on Diskeeper software to provide unparalleled performance and reliability to their laptops, desktops and servers. Diskeeper Corporation further provides up-to-the-minute data protection and instant file recovery with Undelete(R).

(c) 2008 Diskeeper Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Diskeeper, I-FAAST, Undelete, Terabyte Volume Engine, InvisiTasking and Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies are trademarks owned by Diskeeper Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Diskeeper Reveals Best Defrag Solution for Exchange Servers

Diskeeper Corporation Europe reveals that Diskeeper(R) 2008 Enterprise Server improves Exchange servers' performance and reliability at all times; operating with outmost security in the background, it represents the safest and most efficient solution on the market.

With the constant I/O that goes on with busy Exchange servers, fragmentation of files and free space can substantially degrade system performance and increase backup times on heavily used servers.

Jason Jonilis, MNJ Technologies, speaking about the improvements noticed after installing Diskeeper on its system, says: "We found the biggest improvements in stability and speed were on Web servers and Exchange servers. After a month of running Diskeeper on our main Exchange server, the backup times and reboot times were cut by nearly 20%."

SQL servers, which also greatly suffer from fragmentation, are used by Exchange servers as backend. Such an association rapidly increases the levels of overall fragmentation. Problems such as slow-downs, crashes and freeze-ups, longer back ups and anti-virus scans will make it a priority for all IT administrators to address the problem swiftly.

It is however a necessity that defragmentation is only done when it's not at the expense of existing system performance. Diskeeper monitors all hard-disk drives and defragments individual files using only idle resources. This is made possible by the revolutionary technology called InvisiTasking™ which enables Diskeeper to operate in the background with no impact on resources. This means it will immediately stand down when any higher priority application is in use and only operate during system slack periods.

By keeping Exchange and SQL Servers free of fragmentation with Diskeeper 2008, speed of database reads and writes can be greatly enhanced.

To obtain an exclusive copy of the latest white papers as well as a free trial version of Diskeeper 2008 Enterprise Server, visit http://www.diskeepereurope.com.

About Diskeeper Corporation - Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies(TM):

With over 30 million licences sold, small businesses to large enterprises rely on Diskeeper software to provide unparalleled performance and reliability to their laptops, desktops and servers. Diskeeper Corporation further provides up-to-the-minute data protection and instant file recovery with Undelete(R).

(c) 2008 Diskeeper Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Diskeeper, I-FAAST, Undelete, Terabyte Volume Engine, InvisiTasking and Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies are trademarks owned by Diskeeper Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Diskeeper Corporation Europe Releases Case Study On Zehnder Ltd

Zehnder Ltd, the European Market leader in the building of special heating elements, experienced remarkable improvement of its system performance after deploying Diskeeper on its network.

Zehnder’s IT infrastructure consists of 28 servers, which are connected to 300 clients and supply various network services to the end user. A heavy workload and high data input, coupled with a 24/7 usage of resources, left no time for scheduled defragmentation. It furthermore implied longer back-up processes overtime.
What was needed was an automatic solution to tackle the growing system slowdowns caused by fragmentation.

Zehnder found in Diskeeper the best solution to their problem: not only was the transitional process to Diskeeper managed swiftly with no overhead costs, Diskeeper also provided Zehnder with an automatic solution, working in real time with no impact on resources. Ercan Yapalak, head of IT services at Zhender Ltd states “it is especially convenient to have an advanced feature like Diskeeper InvisiTasking™ technology in place, a technology that enables thorough system maintenance totally invisible and in the background.”

Speaking about the benefits, Ercan Yapalak says: “I detected noticeable performance improvements within the first 10 days. There was great feedback from each single user as well as from power users who indicated a clear increase in speed. Both applications and access times were notably faster.”

Benefits achieved:
Automatic defragmentation
Improved system speed, faster data delivery and faster system response time
Improved system performance
Faster and more reliable back-up processes
An easy installation process with no overhead costs

For more information on Zehnder and its products, visit www.zehnder-online.de
To obtain an exclusive copy of the latest case studies and white papers as well as a free trial version of Diskeeper 2008, visit www.diskeepereurope.com or simply click here to buy now.

About Diskeeper Corporation - Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies™:

With over 30 million licences sold, home users to large corporations rely on Diskeeper software to provide unparalleled performance and reliability to their laptops, desktops and servers. Diskeeper Corporation further provides up-to-the-minute data protection and instant file recovery with Undelete®.

© 2008 Diskeeper Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Diskeeper, I-FAAST, Undelete, Terabyte Volume Engine, InvisiTasking and Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies are trademarks owned by Diskeeper Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.