Diskeeper Corporation Leaks New Storage Performance Technology.

BURBANK, Calif. -- Last week at the Digital Life show in New York, Diskeeper(R) Corporation, the leader in automatic disk defragmentation, provided a sneak peak into their new storage performance technology, dubbed Disk Performance Calibration. Disk Performance Calibration is a new class of disk technology that will allow file systems to squeeze more performance out of storage devices and is expected to deliver performance gains of 10-80%.

Within a given disk, array or partition different regions have varying performance characteristics. Older technologies have theorized that these regions existed and attempted to take advantage of them by placing files on the "outside" of disks where data is more densely packed. Unfortunately file systems operate on a logical level ignorant of how proprietary disk controllers place files at the physical level. Additionally the concept of a storage device having an "outside" is greatly oversimplified due to architectures such as RAID, SANs and the use of logical partitions.

Diskeeper Corporation has found a way to dynamically reverse-engineer storage architectures from the application level, generating a physical layer performance map. This is accomplished without hardware dependency and it works on a wide variety of storage architectures such as SAN, RAID and even single disk drive PCs. By studying historical file usage trends, the performance requirements of data can be matched to specific regions of the performance map in a truly intelligent manner.

The first successful implementation of Disk Performance Calibration, dubbed Intelligent File Access Acceleration Sequencing Technology (I-FAAST(TM)), has just come out of Diskeeper Corporation's new technology laboratory. This recently created unit has been tasked with performing "out-of-the-box" technology research. Diskeeper Corporation is not yet ready to announce if I-FAAST will be a new product offering or if it will fit into their existing product line.

The technology of Disk Performance Calibration is discussed in great detail in a new Diskeeper Corporation whitepaper, http://files.diskeeper.com/pdf/Disk_Performance_Calibration.pdf

About Diskeeper Corporation

Diskeeper Corporation (formerly Executive Software(R)) is the undisputed leader in defragmentation technology. From its origins as the first defragmenter for Windows NT, Diskeeper has grown to become the Number One Automatic Defragmenter(TM) with over 17 million licenses sold. Corporations around the world rely on Diskeeper to provide daily automatic defragmentation, giving their systems unparalleled speed and stability. Diskeeper Corporation also provides up-to-the-minute data protection and instant file recovery with Undelete(R) and easy-to-use automated patch and systems management with Sitekeeper(R). Diskeeper Corporation is located at 7590 North Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank, CA 91504. Phone numbers are [phone] and [phone]. A variety of system management tools, trialware and free utilities are available at www.diskeeper.com.

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