PC Heal Thyself: New White Paper Shows Growing Trend in Self-Healing Software.

BURBANK, Calif. -- Yes, computers get sick. They don't miss school days. But they do miss out on work. A newly released white paper focusing on disk drives discloses how fragmentation affects the ill-health of enterprise-class computers. The paper, written by storage industry expert Drew Robb, shows how to eliminate performance bottlenecks and heighten ROI with automatic defragmentation software -- part of the growing trend in "self-healing" technology.

Corrupted database files, sluggish reboots, stability problems, data loss, aborted back ups or CD recording failures -- these are signs of a sick computer. The known solution is defragmentation. But the problem is, some IT professionals are still performing their defragmentation tasks manually. A chore at best.

Per the Robb paper: "A good technician can keep any system running. A better one designs systems so he doesn't have to...all systems must be kept, not just from breaking down, but operating at peak performance. Equipment manufacturers and software developers, therefore, are researching and developing self-healing systems."

The paper goes on to detail how by installing an automatic defragmenter on all workstations, laptops and servers -- small to enterprise-class companies can retain the full health of their computer systems. They also secure a demonstrable ROI with a host of benefits, including a 67.90 to 83.67 percent performance increase, bottom-line savings through the prevention of premature hardware upgrades and, most important to some, freeing up of the IT professional's time previously spent doing defragmentation the hard and old fashioned way (manually).

"...(F)ragmentation exerts a severe toll on enterprise performance and reliability, one that cannot be remedied by manual defragmentation.

"The only way to cost effectively rid servers and workstations is to utilize Diskeeper(R), the number one automatic defragmenter on the market. The use of this tool places no administrative burden on IT, enhances employee productivity, reduces IT maintenance and pays for itself within a few weeks of implementation," according to Robb.

The complete Robb paper, "Self-Tuning Disk Drives Eliminate Performance Bottlenecks and Heighten ROI," can be downloaded at www.wugnet.com.

About Diskeeper Corporation 

Diskeeper Corporation, formerly Executive Software, was founded on July 22, 1981. During this time, the company has logged many technical achievements in the VMS and Windows(R) IT community with products like Diskeeper. For 19 years the Diskeeper automatic defragmenter has led the industry in defragmentation technology -- a fact which is confirmed by the 231 awards received by Diskeeper in 2004 alone. Originally released in 1986 for the Digital VMS platform, Diskeeper became the first and original "Set It and Forget It"(R) automatic disk defragmenter for the enterprise. Introduced with the release of Windows NT(R) v3.51, Diskeeper became the first-ever Microsoft(R) Certified defragmenter on November 22, 1999. More recently Diskeeper became the first defragmenter to receive Microsoft certification for Windows 2000 Advanced Server and for Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition, these advanced level certifications require stringent testing and compatibility with Windows clustering. For more information, please visit www.diskeeper.com.

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