Up the Performance, Lower Energy Consumption With Diskeeper Automatic Defragmentation

BURBANK, CA–(EMWNews – July 15, 2008) – Diskeeper has released its new white paper on

how Diskeeper® 2008 can help companies reduce energy consumption. The

study was performed by 3D Professor (http://www.3dprofessor.org) and was

focused on determining the energy savings that Diskeeper can afford users

when installed on a machine.

It’s the mantra in these days of energy-consumption awareness, especially

in business: Go faster, produce more products, and continue to stay ahead

of the competition — but reduce power use. In the past it’s a factor

companies hadn’t had to consider, but now that energy comes at such a high

price, corporations are having to severely examine their consumption and

utilization of energy.

In order to remain competitive but lower resource usage while doing so,

enterprises are implementing power-efficient manufacturing methods, trading

company-owned gas-guzzling luxury cars for hybrids, upgrading equipment to

be as energy-efficient as possible, and putting all computer systems on

completely automatic defragmentation.

Diskeeper with its proprietary InvisiTasking® technology defragments

invisibly, in the background, keeping systems running at maximum

performance without consuming extra resources. Systems utilizing Diskeeper

with InvisiTasking have been found through recent tests to run with lower energy usage and produce

faster results across the boards for all systems tested.

Test results showed an average of 0.12 KWH (kilowatt hours) of energy

savings per PC in a given day, which amounts to considerable savings when

extended over the course of a year. Assuming average cost of US commercial

KWH at $0.0941, that is a savings of $21.86 per PC. Calculating these power

savings to a medium sized company with 250 workstations we see an

approximate annual savings of $5,465.33. As can be seen from these results,

Diskeeper pays for itself through energy savings in an enterprise

environment.

When files are fragmented, a hard drive is under undue stress due to the

extra I/O requests needed to collect each and every fragment of each and

every file. Not only is performance severely decreased, but hard drive life

is shortened due to additional thrashing of the read-write head and energy

use is increased. Conversely, when files are kept defragmented, performance

is heightened, hard drive life is lengthened and, last but certainly not

least, energy output is lowered.

Diskeeper with InvisiTasking utilizes only idle resources so that there is

never a negative performance hit from defragmentation and performance is

always maximized. Along with other key measures, Diskeeper helps systems

achieve the prime goal of upping performance while consuming less precious

energy.

About Diskeeper Corporation — Innovators in Performance and Reliability

Technologies™:

With over 31 million licenses sold, small businesses to large enterprises

rely on Diskeeper software to provide maximum performance and reliability

to their laptops, desktops and servers. Diskeeper Corporation also provides

up-to-the-minute data protection and instant file recovery with Undelete®.

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