by Colleen Toumayan
17. September 2009 03:27
We are running Diskeeper on three of our production Terminal Servers. After running the product on these heavily fragmented systems, they seem to have cleared most all of our lag issues related to fragmentation. I find that Diskeeper’s Automatic Defrag is truly set it and forget it. I do periodically check on it to make sure that it is indeed keeping things cleaned up. I have received no complaints from users after installing Diskeeper as it stays seamlessly out of the way of active work being done on the servers. Performance has definitely increased as a result of installing Diskeeper on our production Terminal servers.
Jimmy J. Powell,
Network Administrator,
City of Rockwall
by Colleen Toumayan
10. September 2009 07:03
From one of our customers:
Diskeeper works 100% of the time. After I’ve installed it I simply forget about it. I have it running on two NAS servers and on our Microsoft Small Business Server 2003. Diskeeper has prolonged the life of our Small Business Server by 18 months. Our hard drives are nearly full, yet Diskeeper has kept them working optimally with low disk space. We will introduce Virtualization (replacing our SBS2003 box) into our production environment during the fourth quarter using Microsoft’s Hyper-V technology. I have already tested your V-locity product on a non-production Hyper-V server and will incorporate it into our rollout in October. Keep up the good work!
Al Stenner,
Director Information Services,
KRM Restaurant Group
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by Colleen Toumayan
2. September 2009 12:18
Diskeeper has been one of our main implementation tools for any new Windows Server-based product. HBR Solutions has been using Diskeeper for nearly 8 years, and have found it to be a critical part of our system configurations.
Our clients understand the importance of highly efficient data access, and Diskeeper Corporation has always kept their promise on making sure that the drives are always set to peak performance. Whether we run the product under a NAS, SAN or DAS, Diskeeper has proved that it can manage any type of hardware design and configuration including virtual servers.
In the majority of our client's install base, Diskeeper has shown a substantial increase in performance once installed and configured on existing systems. The hardware is a mix of IBM Shark SAN, EMC, Dell (DAS and internal) and HP (internal).
As for the NAS, DAS an SAN results, our analysis pertains to clients who had the hardware in place and were looking at upgrading their hardware. However, once we installed and configured Diskeeper on those systems, we saw performance that went up to nearly 40% better on the same hardware platform.
We are very pleased with Diskeeper and will continue to the use their product on our future endeavors.
Steven Bond
HBR Solutions Inc
Aberdeen, NJ
by Colleen Toumayan
25. August 2009 10:16
Our Executive Vice President had a 3-year old Dell computer that had probably never been defragmented. It had only 512MB of RAM and when I worked on it, it was EXTREMELY slow. To open up MS Word had to take 10-15 seconds or more. I installed Diskeeper Professional and let him know what I did to speed up his PC. Much to my surprise he called me back a day later and thanked me for speeding up his PC. He said it was quicker and the applications he opened were more responsive. I hung up the phone in amazement. Usually the only time a user calls is when they have a problem, not to tell you how well something is working. Obviously Diskeeper made quite an impact on him and his PC!
Tony Laird, United Fire GroupCedar Rapids, IA
by Colleen Toumayan
19. August 2009 09:11
I am enjoying V-locity. It has made a difference in performance, especially with some of my virtual machines.
One major feature I like is the built-in functionality to compact the VHD files. My hard drive was running low on space, but I knew my virtual machines weren’t using that much and V-locity told me which virtual hard drives to compact. I did that and it freed up a lot of space.
We are running NextGen HER (Electronic Medical Records ) which generates hundreds of files daily, but we don’t have to worry because every night V-locity puts them in their place! The speed of our virtual guests and hosts and increased dramatically as well as our biggest file server that serves 170 users. I also like how unobtrusive V-locity is… I don’t even notice that it is there really. I am excited to see Diskeeper [Corporation] on the cutting edge!
Chris G., System Administrator, Northwest Human Services
by Colleen Toumayan
12. August 2009 05:47
Great customer success:
“Diskeeper is vital; it helps our business with what we consider preventative maintenance. We also feel that this software keeps our server and our server apps running smoothly and efficiently as we have 50 users who require simultaneous access to our data for operation of our facilities. I run Diskeeper on my primary ERP server which is our business critical application. We saw within the first day, that previous delays in processing data had decreased. Our current ERP, called Eagle, was installed and implemented about 2.5 years ago and is made by a company called DMS (now owned by AFS). This server is one of four we run Diskeeper on. Since we are food warehousing company, we chose an application that was built specifically for our industry. Also as we are a company that ships and processes orders 24 hours a day, 6 days a week, being able to run at optimal performance is always crucial for us. “
Jamison Moklak
Information Technology
Julius Silvert, Philadelphia, PA
by Colleen Toumayan
6. August 2009 08:20
Another Cool Success Story: “We have had one version or another of Diskeeper installed on our production SAN for many years. That is what we use for our major production systems. The Automatic defrag option for drives and disk volumes is by far the greatest feature. The ‘Set It and Forget It’ is the best way to ensure file fragmentation is always minimal. No manual defrags are ever required and performance levels are constantly maintained at their highest levels due to having all our database files in contiguous drive space. The only time we ever end up with major file fragmentation is during our nightly backups (many hundreds of gigabytes) and Auto defrag takes care of that within a few hours. We have a multi-node cluster using this SAN and no matter which node is owning the cluster resources, Diskeeper takes care of all shared volumes. Other then the initial install, I spend close to zero time with Diskeeper or worrying about fragmentation. I checked one of our nodes today and ran a manual analysis; there were a total of 3 fragments for 1 file out of 90,000+ on the system. That’s what Auto defrag does for us!”
Jason Brown, Network Administrator, ServiceU Corporation
by Colleen Toumayan
29. July 2009 10:50
Here is a cool success story I thought I'd share: “The deployment process was exceedingly easy. Made the purchase, downloaded and installed the software - watched response times drop. Pretty nice over all. Diskeeper is exceeding my expectations. We had definite performance problems caused by heavy amounts of fragmentation. During the first two hours after installation we saw a significant improvement in access and delivery perceived timings. This was a big surprise for us. The web application that runs on all of our servers was responding faster, pages popped a little quicker and the time between pages was reduced enough to notice without a stopwatch. The servers are relatively standard Dell PowerEdge rack servers, running 3-6 drives in a RAID 5 configuration. Unfortunately I don’t have timing or supporting data for comparison and analysis. I didn’t really think that we would see a noticeable improvement after adding Diskeeper to the servers; it was more of a preventative maintenance issue for me. But on the databases host servers, we saw query times drop rapidly. Since changing pages in our application can require dozens (or hundreds) of database calls, a small increase in the database performance results in a significant difference for the application. Combined with a slightly faster access time for web resource files, it was a very positive change for server performance all around. Diskeeper has been moved from the optional utilities list, to the required utilities list for all of our production server deployment. We are also recommending Diskeeper for our mid-to-high volume enterprise clients for their own hardware. When the money-counters notice a difference dramatic enough to say, ‘We need this on every server’, something good has happened!” Greg Porterfield, Pragmatic SoftwareSolutions Engineer/Architect
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