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An Expensive Drain on Worker Productivity hard-disk
Hard-drive fragmentation is costly. 120 employees losing 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 corporation 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 utility 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 reducing productivity.
Diskeeper's Set It and Forget It automatic scheduling capability 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.
Technology Innovation
Diskeeper is not the only defragmentation product available. Yet it leads the market by a wide margin, and with good reason. A pioneer in the development of defragmentation 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 both before and after cleaning up a disk."
Beyond its long association with Microsoft, Diskeeper research remains at the forefront of the industry. Diskeeper engineers were the first to implement terabyte volume support, smart scheduling, and support for Active Directory.
The Choice of Manufacturers and Dealers
No product stands on its own, and Diskeeper is no exception. Diskeeper Corp. long ago established partnerships with the computing industry's major manufacturers. Today, these relationships continue to flourish with partners including Intel, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Toshiba. In September 2005, Diskeeper established a major partnership with Lenovo, the corporation that acquired IBM's personal computer manufacturing business.
Getting technology products to corporate users is a multi-tier journey through the distribution and value-added reseller channel. Fortunately, Diskeeper remains a longtime favorite of Ingram Micro and Tech Data, the two largest distributors of computing solutions in the United States.
To ensure that its distributor and reseller partners maintain peak expertise, Diskeeper provides live technical support, pre-sales support, and advanced online training. And to assure total customer satisfaction, Diskeeper offers technical support online, via e-mail, and over the phone.
Resellers and systems integrators, in the trenches every day, continue to sing Diskeeper's praises:
"Other programs I've tried either did not clean as well or slowed the system to a crawl. Diskeeper keeps the system optimized and never requires a second thought. I've begun to put stronger emphasis on suggesting this product to clients." Robert Oliver, Sales Executive, Insight Canada
"As a VAR, we focus on service. Diskeeper allows us to maintain performance on our servers with a hands-off approach that is transparent to the end user. This helps keep our servers running better for longer and improves our customer satisfaction." Todd Barrack, New Wave Network
Certainly no one knows Windows better than Microsoft itself. So when the company advises IT systems administrators to use Diskeeper, excellent performance and systems integrity are assured. In its TechNet white paper Performance Tuning Checklist 4.5, Microsoft suggests that network administrators "run a defragmentation utility such as Diskeeper."
Conclusion
Diskeeper isn't the only standalone disk defragmentation product. Choices exist. But with its 95 percent market share in corporate hard-disk defragmentation software, nearly 17 million licenses, and dozens of technological advances throughout its 19-year life, those choices quickly pale. Businesses from the largest enterprise to the smallest home office, educational institutions, and government agencies turn to Diskeeper to maintain systems performance levels, reduce help desk calls, and extend the life of aging PCs.
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