From the Executive Software Team

Probably the best test of a product like Diskeeper - beyond the fact of its doing its job well - is, will it stand up in a tough computing environment, and better yet improve that environment?

One of the toughest environments, due to constant disk reads and writes, are databases. How does Diskeeper hold up? Mike Sluys, database administrator at Calibre Systems in Woodbridge, Virginia, says "Diskeeper appears to be in a class of its own. Keeping my system at peak efficiency allows me to function at five times the speed of coworkers in a heavy database environment using FoxPro, SQL Server, and MS Office Pro."

Another tough area - and one in which Diskeeper thrives - is Computer-Aided Design (CAD). With CAD applications, fragmentation can slow systems to a crawl or stop them altogether. Says Jim Lampkin, Senior Project Architectfor Montalto Massa Archtects, Inc., "Diskeeper has been working wonderfully since putting it on our server. Before installation, we had noticed that many of our programs were working slowly, and it was taking incredible amounts of time to save Quickbooks and AutoCAD files. We did not realize that our server hard drive was 49% fragmented. Diskeeper cleaned up our server and we have had fast sailing since." Jim is certainly not alone - many CAD sites throughout the world have made Diskeeper a standard.

An environment similar to CAD (due to file sizes) is engineering. And this type of environment can suffer just as badly from fragmentation, as Earl J. Beattie, an engineer with Compaq Computer Corporation will attest. "We use an engineering software called Pro/Engineer from Parmetric Technologies Corp., which is very hard on storage systems. Every time you do a save, it creates a new file rather than writing over the previous one. These files can be up to 100 MB or more. Average size is about 2 - 5 MB, but if you save every 15-30 minutes, you eat up a lot of disk space. Needless to say,this propagates a lot of fragmentation." Jim has been using Diskeeper manually (he is about to switch to "Set It and Forget It"(r) mode). Jim said, "Whenever performance goes down, I defrag and it picks right up again. After defragging the page file and the directories on a reboot, the difference was very noticeable."

Another environment which can be tough is that of programming. Michael W. Cannon, a programmer with Computer Wizards of Alpharetta, Georgia told us; "I do a lot of Access/SQL programming and have Visual Studio 6.0 installed on my machine. I also do a lot of Internet programming." Michael really noticed the effect of defragmentation in his environment. "I noticed a marked improvement in my system when I ran the 3.x version for the first time. The 4.0 version seems to be just as capable, if not more so." Michael also has some advice for other NT administrators: "I think that anyone who runs NT without Diskeeper is nuts!"

No matter what types of applications you're using, keep ALL your Windows NT computers running at peak performance with Diskeeper. Order it for all your systems today. Contact your favorite reseller, or order direct.

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