New Diskeeper Attacks Performance-Crippling Fragmentation Across the Enterprise.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 3, 2003

Executive Software(R) International:

-- The Award-Winning "Set It and Forget It" Disk Defragmenter Now

Delivers Enterprise-Wide Functionality with Expanded

Centralized Management and Fast Defragmentation of Large

Drives with Millions of Files

Executive Software(R) International, today announced the release to manufacturing of Diskeeper(R) 8.0; the newest edition of its hugely popular automatic disk defragmenter. The award-winning "Set it and Forget It(R)" disk defragmenter now provides a brand-new user interface, faster defragmentation engines, revolutionary terabyte drive defragmentation and a full-featured Administrator Edition with full reporting and alerting. With over 95% corporate market share, Diskeeper has long been recognized as setting the standard in enterprise disk defragmentation.

Disk defragmentation cripples system performance while also causing needless wear and tear on disk drives. According to IDC, "Although many companies acknowledge that file fragmentation is a fact of life on most modern distributed systems, few are aware of just how much it is costing the bottom line in terms of lost performance and downtime." Additionally, IDC estimates that thousands if not millions of dollars are lost due to not defragmenting automatically versus manually in a corporation.

Diskeeper 8.0 eliminates fragmentation with a specialized edition designed for each flavor of the Windows 2003 server operating systems. Versions are also available for Windows XP Pro, Windows XP Home users, and other desktop versions of the Windows operating system.

New functionality includes:

-- New attractive and highly intuitive user interface.

-- New performance index that clearly shows how much performance

is being lost on your system and how much performance will be

gained.

-- A New Administrator Edition which includes a new reliability

index to alert System Administrators to critical system

problems related to fragmentation and low disk free space.

-- A new defragmentation engine that makes short work of

defragmenting large drives and drives with millions of files.

-- New support for Active Directory and Logical Groups including

three new ways to look at and manage machines on a network:

Active Directory view, Logical Groups view and a

Domain/Machines view.

-- New Machine Information Report in the new Administrator

Edition which gives detailed information about each machine.

New Diskeeper 8.0 is now available for sale and can be purchased at: http://www.executive.com/diskeeper/diskeeper.asp?pr=dkpr6. Trialware downloads are also available.

About Executive Software

Founded in 1981, Executive Software specializes in focused development of system management tools for corporations globally. The company is the world leader in system performance/defragmentation software for Windows NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003, and OpenVMS(R) operating systems, producing more than 98 percent of the network defragmenters used in the corporate market. Executive Software is located at 7590 North Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank, CA 91504. Phone numbers are 800-829-6468 and 818-771-1600. A variety of system management tools, trialware and free utilities are available at www.execsoft.com. Executive Software's European headquarters can be reached at www.execsoft.co.uk or by calling [phone].

Executive Software, Diskeeper, "Set It and Forget It," and Smart Scheduling are trademarks owned by Executive Software International, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.