Tight IT budgets demand that desktop and laptop PCs remain in service well beyond their prime. But as these systems age, performance degrades. The culprit most often is file fragmentation. Download this paper to find out how Diskeeper can help your systems perform longer.
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rations. Among the Fortune top 10 corporations, Diskeeper is the standard at nine, installed on tens of thousands of their desktops, laptops, and servers.
Tight IT budgets demand that desktop and laptop PCs re-main in service well beyond their prime. But as these sys-tems age, performance degrades. The culprit most often is file fragmentation. Hard drives require regular defragmen-tation, reorganizing their contents so that each file occupies a contiguous area instead of being stored as many small More than 300 of chunks. Defragmentation quantifiably improves worker the Fortune 500 productivity and extends system life. It reduces calls to tech support, freeing precious IT budget dollars for re-allocation companies have to other projects. chosen Diskeeper as their corporate standard for An Expensive Drain on Worker Productivity hard-disk Hard-drive fragmentation is costly. 120 employees losing defragmentation. just 4 minutes per day to sluggish computer performance is an aggregate annual productivity loss of 2,080 hours, the exact equivalent of one full-time employee. In a corpora-tion with 5,000 employees, it is comparable to having 42 no-show workers on the payroll. At an average fully-loaded salary cost of $60,000, the cost in lost productivity alone is $2,520,000. No business can afford that.
Defragmentation is not a one-time housekeeping chore; it requires a product that runs regularly and does so without any user interaction. The entry-level defragmentation util-ity built into Windows cannot be automated or scheduled, requiring direct user intervention each time it is run, a task for which they are neither paid nor trained, further reduc-ing productivity.
Diskeeper's Set It and Forget ItT automatic scheduling ca-pability is the answer. Users and network administrators need not worry about fragmentation-related slowdowns or, even worse, system crashes.
This report was sponsored by Diskeeper Corp., however, the sponsor had no input into the content of this report, conclusions reached, or opinions expressed by Reference Guide Testing Laboratories.
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Technology Innovation Diskeeper is not the only defragmentation product avail-able. Yet it leads the market by a wide margin, and with good reason. A pioneer in the development of defragmenta-tion technology, the product has won the prestigious PC Magazine Editors' Choice award for three years running. In 2004 alone, it garnered 231 awards.
In winning the May 2005 PC Magazine Editors' Choice award, its editors said, "Diskeeper 9 is our Editors' Choice for advanced users who want a feature-packed utility." The review goes on to note that "besides acing our performance tests, the tool offers very detailed reporting ... [download for more]
