Cures Pains from I/O Bottlenecks, Slow VMs, Slow Migration, Resource Conflicts, 

Wasted Storage Space and Slow Backup Speeds

Diskeeper Corporation announced at VMworld the release of new V-locity^® 3 virtual platform disk optimizer for VMware^®. 

V-locity 3 delivers invisible background optimization to give maximum I/O performance on virtual servers. 

V-locity 3 now has full integration with VMware ESXi as well as existing support for other platforms such as ESX, and Microsoft Hyper-V™. Other developments include V-Aware™ technology which detects external resource usage from other virtual machines on the virtual platform and eliminates resource contention that would otherwise exist on the same Host Server. New CogniSAN™ technology detects external resource usage within a shared storage system, such as a SAN, and allows for transparent optimization by never competing for resources utilized by other VMs over the same storage infrastructure. CogniSAN does this without intruding in any way into SAN-layer operations. Lastly is the new automatic zeroing of free space which is a powerful engine that zeros out unused data blocks on virtual disks and makes virtual disk compaction easy.

http://www.diskeeper.com/press/releases/releases.aspx?F=2011083001.htm

Diskeeper Corporation announced today the launch of a PC Speed Contest where contestants are asked to Show – via a picture or short video and Tell – the remarkable gains that they have received in accelerating PC performance using Diskeeper® 2011 performance software.

Diskeeper increases the speed and reliability of all PCs by improving system performance, faster boot-up times and increased speeds on everything from internet browsing to antivirus scans. Diskeeper 2011 gives PCs faster-than-new speed without any effort from the user.

The grand prize winner will receive a new Laptop computer and a copy of Diskeeper 2011 Pro-Premier software.

To enter the contest: http://tinyurl.com/3b37ayq

Dawn Richcreek, Vice President of Marketing has been recognized by Everything Channel’s CRN Magazine as one of the top Women of the Channel in 2011. This annual list recognizes female executives for their accomplishments over the past year, based on their achievements as executives and the amount of influence they wield over the technology channel.  This year’s Women of the Channel were chosen by the editors of CRN Magazine from a field of vendor channel organizations, distributors and solution providers. 

Over the past year, Richcreek successfully developed the Diskeeper Channel Awareness Campaign with Tech Data.   Additionally, she has launched two new products, Diskeeper^® 2011 data performance software and V-locity^®  2.0  virtual platform disk optimizer, that make the day-to-day lives of reseller customers easier and more productive.  Richcreek’s previous accomplishments include implementation of the Diskeeper Corporation Channel Marketing program where she provided profit generating training and sales tools for thousands of resellers on the Diskeeper Corporation suite of products enabling them to better service and provide solutions to their customers. She is a marketing veteran with over 25 years of experience in the industry. The complete article is located here:  http://tinyurl.com/3dakwmy
 

Improve Data Performance 

For years, we have loved Diskeeper and the way it works in the background to keep your hard drives defragmented. Defragmentation programs have been available for decades, but Diskeeper is among the true innovators.With the release of 2011, the tool has gotten even better. 

Basic Bits 

Drive defragmenters aggregate the data—which drives normally break into chunks and store wherever necessary— into contiguous blocks. This speeds access time (and therefore system performance), and can literally prevent a drive from crashing.  Diskeeper takes a multipronged approach to defragmentation that eases its system impact and helps keep your drives humming along smoothly. For one thing, its IntelliWrite technology prevents fragmentation before it happens. Its new Efficient Mode feature improves the defragmenting process by identifying problem fragmentation. The Instant Defrag feature tidies up any leftover fragments it cannot process during the initial file save. Both of these happen on the fly, in the background,and with little to no impact on system resources.  

The full review is located here.

TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Diskeeper Corporation will be at Taipei CompuTex 2011 co-exhibiting with SanDisk at booth N0307 in the Nangang 4F Hall. The company is officially demonstrating its new ExpressCache™ product—an intelligent SSD data caching and pinning software solution designed to markedly boost PC boot time and application launch speeds.

ExpressCache can achieve the following:

• Dramatically shorten boot-up time; up to 60% compared with the same system without ExpressCache.
• Provide up to 5X improvement in application launch time.
• More than double the overall performance compared to the same system without ExpressCache.

Initially previewed at the January 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, ExpressCache improves PC speeds by incorporating a small Solid State Drive (SSD) to provide near-instantaneous access to the most frequently accessed hot data in Windows 7 systems. Comprised of User mode and Kernel Mode components, ExpressCache uses an SSD as an intelligent cache, coupled with an HDD, to improve overall system performance and greatly speed up Windows PC startup, application launches and data access speed.

More ExpressCache Benefits:

• ExpressCache provides superior overall performance than HDD systems at a fraction of the cost of a pure SSD system.
• Any combination of SSD and HDD can be used, making it a far more flexible solution than Hybrid Hard Drives. Individual components can be upgraded independent of the other.
• ExpressCache increases file system performance while maintaining the full safety and integrity of all system data.

Diskeeper 2011 was covered on Wugnet.  Howard Sobel stated, “They introduced technology that slowed down and prevented fragmentation in Diskeeper 2010 so I thought it was impossible to improve on the concept of defrag much more. Not so! By increasing the efficiency of their algorithms, they have decreased the wear and tear on your hard disk and your computing performance while it works in the background. Decreasing the overall disk activity also decreases your electrical consumption. This may not be a huge savings on "your" electric bill but consider how much savings this amounts to in datacenters where thousands of hard disks are used. So being GREEN doesn't mean paying a penalty. In fact, the opposite is true for Diskeeper. I would go as far as declaring this the software utility "Product of the Year" if we didn't have 8 more months to go in 2011.” The full article is located here: http://www.wugnet.com/tips/this_week.asp  

 

Michael Vizard, Industry leader and IT Editor wrote an article on Diskeeper 2011 and stated,

"But as more applications begin to share the same IT infrastructure thanks to the advent of virtualization and cloud computing, the more fragmentation becomes an I/O performance optimization issue."

 The full article is located here: http://www.ctoedge.com/content/intelligent-disk-defragmentation

Jeremy Buck, Spokesperson for Diskeeper Corporation, in this series on "How to Speed up your Business Computers," continues his discussion on virtualization, talking about why you need a program like V-locity ^®, virtual platform disk optimizer, to keep your virtual computers running at peak performance.

The full release is located here.

Let's Talk Computers ranks as one of the longest-running computer radio talk shows and can be heard weekly in 7 states and 24 hours a day on the website.

Diskeeper 2011 received a 5 star review on Bright Hub.

The reviewer states,

Daiwa Odakyu Construction Co., Ltd.  

Problem 

Daiwa Odakyu Construction Co., Ltd did back up of 15 Servers every day using Symantec Backup Exec. But the problem of latency of backup appeared. Initially the system was designed to finish backup within 3 hours at most. But the time grew to 8 hours. They thought additional hardware was needed but had no additional budget. At that time they discovered the cause of latency was fragmentation. First they tried to solve fragments with the built-in defrag. But it solved only 20%. Next a free defrag software was tried. It proceeded to 35% and shortened backup time by more than 1 hour. But 2 days after, the backup time got back to 8 hours. 

Solution 

Mr. Kawata, manager of the Information System Group of Daiwa Odakyu, found Diskeeper® via the internet and downloaded trialware from SOHEI. Diskeeper solved all fragmentation and shortened the backup times down to 1.3 hours. What’s more, IntelliWrite® prevented fragmentation up to 99%! In accordance with their trial, the system without Diskeeper added 1 hour a day to their backup times. 

	Back up Time(hour)	Number of Fragments	Number of fragments prevented
Initial design	3.0	-	-
Fragmented	8.5	10,000,000以上	-
After defrag by Diskeeper	1.3	250	3,000,000～7,200,000
Improvement	85%	99.9975%	（断片化防止率99％）

 “I couldn’t estimate such a big influence of fragmentation in the 50% used volume.  The incredible power of Diskeeper is surprising me. The massive fragmentation I gave up trying to solve is now easily defragmented and prevented by Diskeeper, and then this leads to prevent latency of back up completely.  

“The trial without Diskeeper, which resulted in adding 1 hour a day to backup time, scared me so much. With increasing numbers of files, the backup caused massive fragmentation and gets into a dangerous situation. Less than $1,000 investment in Diskeeper is equal to more than $10,000 worth of Servers. I think Diskeeper is vital for file servers and backup servers."  

“I’m thankful to the developers of this surprising software.” 

System: 

HP DL380G4 Xeon E5430 4GB Memory 410GB SAS RAID10(146GB SA*6）

HP StorageWorks MSA60 3.41TB SATA RAID10(750GB SATA*10）  

 

Diskeeper Corporation today announced the release of Diskeeper® 2011 data performance software which includes new technology to give optimum system performance always. Diskeeper Corporation has long been the leader in performance and reliability technologies and this new version marks another milestone in bringing together technology to take any Windows® system up to optimum performance.

“Having this instant defrag is shortening the time it takes to place the machines back in use. I have always been impressed with Diskeeper, but this version shows the dedication your company has with making each PC run at optimal speed.”

Efficient Mode new in Diskeeper 2011 minimizes the time and resources used by Diskeeper to restore and maintain peak performance and reliability. New Efficient Mode is smart enough to detect fragmentation that is a problem and targets it for priority handling. The software further contains two unique technologies closely married together to achieve the ultimate in system performance: IntelliWrite® technology to prevent up to 85% of fragmentation before it ever happens—an industry first—and New Instant Defrag™ which understands how files are used and immediately defrags the ones that will be used right now.

Brandon Butler of Professional Medical Services stated,” The instant defrag is a huge thing for us in this IT department.” And further said, “Having this instant defrag is shortening the time it takes to place the machines back in use. I have always been impressed with Diskeeper, but this version shows the dedication your company has with making each PC run at optimal speed.”

“I've used Diskeeper since the early 90's and with each version, the improvements have made my job much easier and have saved the county many thousands of dollars as our systems have lasted longer than the counties old and new rotation mandate for systems. The new feature, efficient mode, helps to keep the system in constant maintenance, which keeps it from being fragmented with sluggish responses. Benefits are savings in both personal time and cost of replacing a system that now can operate for even more years,” said Gary McDonald, San Joaquin County Public Health Services.

The need for more data and faster processing is growing enormously for everybody which is evident in new storage technologies. System resource wastes; such as disk space, I/O, resources, and unnecessary hardware expenditures also magnifies throughout networks, driving up operating costs. As the IT environment becomes more complex, performance bottlenecks in the underlying infrastructure magnify throughout a site and seriously impact productivity. With Diskeeper 2011, major improvement in system efficiency and a significant reduction in the entire site’s operating costs are achieved.

Features in Diskeeper 2011

Exclusive IntelliWrite technology. The O/S activity of writing files in pieces to the disk (fragmentation) can be prevented before it happens – up to 85% and more. Extremely valuable for thin provisioned storage and SAN as well as all other systems.

New Instant Defrag. Instant Defrag, new in Diskeeper 2011, works in conjunction with IntelliWrite to quickly eliminate any fragments not prevented during the initial write. For those fragments, IntelliWrite passes along information in real-time to the Instant Defrag engines for immediate handling.

New Efficient Mode. Efficient Mode, also new in Diskeeper 2011, uses the minimum disk Input/Output (I/O) to restore and maintain maximum performance. The Efficient Mode is smart enough to detect fragmentation that is a problem and targets it for priority handling. Efficient mode only addresses problem fragmentation and by eliminating the unnecessary extra effort to get to a state of 0 total fragments, peak performance is rapidly restored.

New Performance Report. The new performance report in Diskeeper 2011 overlays the main User Interface (UI) to provide the user with an instant view of gains they experience. Users will see:

• System Configuration Status
• Read and Write Access Time – % improvement
• How much fragmentation was prevented and eliminated
• Cumulative Number of I/Os Saved

Exclusive InvisiTasking® technology has been redesigned in Diskeeper 2011 to be more assertive in I/O active environments while still maintaining invisible processing. The enhancements will allow Diskeeper to accomplish more defragmentation and resolve it faster (e.g. Instant Defrag), during typical production workloads.

HyperFast® solid state drive optimizer: Included in the server editions and available as an add-on to Diskeeper Home, Professional and ProPremier editions. HyperFast® solid state drive optimizer is proven optimizing technology for Solid State Drives (SSDs), providing faster performance and longer lifespan.

Diskeeper 2011 takes enterprise network performance and efficiency far beyond what defrag-only can achieve. The advanced features in Diskeeper 2011 combined with IntelliWrite technology make previously unapproachable levels of system efficiency a reality. Diskeeper 2011 makes systems faster, more reliable, longer lived, and energy efficient.

Free 30 day trialware and further information at www.diskeeper.com or call 800-829-6468. Diskeeper 2011 includes editions tailored from the enterprise to home environments.

Diskeeper Corporation, Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies, announced that its Diskeeper 2010 performance software has received the Certificate of Networthiness (CoN) from the U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command. The Certificate of Networthiness signifies that Diskeeper performance software is configured to the current Army Golden Master baseline and complies with all U.S. Army and Department of Defense (DoD) standards for security, compatibility and sustainability. A CoN is required for all enterprise software products deployed in the Army Enterprise Infrastructure Network and used by the U.S. Army, all National Guard, Army Reserve and DoD organizations that use the Army Enterprise Infrastructure.

Diskeeper Corporation Supports Outlook Foundation Programs that Provide Computers to Students in Need and Military Personnel Being Deployed 

Diskeeper Corporate Office Is One of the Sites Where Computers Will Be Distributed 

BURBANK, Calif. and LAS VEGAS, Feb. 22, 2011 – Diskeeper Corporation announces its active participation in the Outlook Foundation’s programs to repurpose computers and give them to children in need, as well as to military personnel being deployed and their families. The Diskeeper Corporation corporate office is one of the sites where computers will be distributed to recipients. 

“We are very pleased to make this commitment to such a worthy cause,” said Colleen Toumayan, PR and Media Relations Executive for Diskeeper. “John Iasiuolo, president of the foundation, is also host of the Computer Outlook Radio Talk Show, for which we’ve been a corporate sponsor for the past eight years. Our participation in the Outlook Foundation is an extension of the trust and respect we have for John, and is one way we can show our support for his efforts to help others.” 

The student and military recipients of the Outlook Foundation computers being presented at Diskeeper Corporation will be announced soon.  For more information on Diskeeper Corporation visit their website at www.diskeeper.com . 

“The Outlook Foundation, which is based in Las Vegas, supports students and military personnel across the country, and I am very grateful to Diskeeper for stepping up as the first corporation to play an active role in our programs,” Iasiuolo said. “Technology is so critical to children’s education, because a computer gives them access to a world of information and opportunity that can change their lives. And for military personnel being deployed, computers keep the family in touch, even though they may be a world apart.”

There will also be computers given to student and military recipients in Las Vegas on March 2, 2011 at New Horizons Computer Learning Center of Las Vegas. 

About Diskeeper Corporation

Innovators in Performance and Reliability Technologies®: CIOs, IT Managers and System Administrators of Global Fortune 1000 and Forbes 500 enterprises rely on Diskeeper® performance software to provide unparalleled performance and reliability to their business laptops, desktops and servers. Diskeeper® 2010 includes the breakthrough IntelliWrite™ fragmentation prevention technology. V-locity 2.0 virtual platform disk optimizer for VMware and Hyper –V eliminates the barriers to full virtual efficiency and maximum I/O performance on virtual servers. Diskeeper Corporation further provides real-time data protection and real-time data recovery with Undelete® data recovery software (www.undelete.com). InvisiTasking® technology enables any process to run completely invisibly in the background, fully tapping the power of otherwise unused idle resources (www.invisitasking.com).  

About Outlook Foundation

The Outlook Foundation has submitted for its 501(C)(3) status as a non-profit organization created to refurbish and repurpose computers; providing them to children whose economic background prevents them from having the equal educational opportunities, as well as U.S. service personnel and their stateside families in an effort to help maintain communication during deployments. For more information, please visit www.outlookfoundation.org or call 888-782-3610.

 

“I am the person who proposed Diskeeper a few years ago in our company because we had some people who were complaining about slow machines. Most of the times the problem was related to the hard disks that were non-stop reading/writing. I tried a few times the internal defragmenter; it helped in reducing the slowness of the machine but it was always for a short time. So I looked for a better product and found Diskeeper.  

I made contact with Diskeeper UK and we had the pleasure to deal with an employee who arranged for an evaluation version of Diskeeper and Diskeeper Administrator to test in our company. 

We have a high number of computers, 16000, which are now running smoothly. The IntelliWrite does a good job preventing fragmentation. The number of calls for slow machines have dropped but we never had real measurements about the performance of Diskeeper. I am very curious about Diskeeper 2011 and what it can bring more so than this version. Diskeeper works and it is a good product. The price is also very good." 

Marc Vanderhaegen, SNCB (Société nationale des Chemins de fer belges)

Desktop Management

Brussels, Belgium

“The initial feedback we're getting from our end users is that the performance improved after we implemented Diskeeper. End users had been suffering from slow access to the databases and the huge systems images. This is much better lately due to using the Diskeeper EnterpriseServer. Our main goal for using the Diskeeper has been achieved and people are feeling the difference."

“We are mainly a Health Sector solutions provider for the whole Middle East and soon North Africa, for variety vendors with high focus on Philips solutions. We are vendor free when it comes to IT products, so we use different brands like IBM, HP with Microsoft platforms only, and on top of all that the medical and health solutions like Cardiac Pictures and Archiving solutions, CPACK, and patients monitoring.

 

 

“Please feel free posting my comments. This is the least thing we can afford in paying back your reputable company for availing this fine product.” 

Ayman A. Nimer

Technology Services Segment Manager

Al Faisaliah Medical Systems

Diskeeper Corporation was awarded the Gold Independent Software Vendor/Software Competency—the highest competency bestowed within the Microsoft Partner Network.

 “When you achieve a gold competency, you’ll represent organizations and associated individuals that have demonstrated the highest, most consistent capability and commitment within a targeted Microsoft business solution area.”—Microsoft Partner Network Web Site 

To earn a Microsoft Gold Competency, organizations must complete a rigorous set of tests to prove their level of technology expertise, have the right number of Microsoft Certified Professionals, submit customer references and demonstrate their commitment to customer satisfaction by participating in an annual survey. The Microsoft Gold Competency signifies to the market that a company has demonstrated the highest level of skill and achievement within a given technology specialization.  

“It is  Diskeeper Corporation’s job to provide Windows users with the fastest, most reliable, longest lasting and energy efficient systems possible,” notes Derek De Vette, Diskeeper VP for Global Alliances & Partner Affairs. “Working closely with Microsoft’s Partner Network competency program ensures that our technology meets the highest standards possible for our enterprise class customers.”

"Spokane Regional Health District uses CommVault Simpana backup/archiving/disaster recovery software installed on a dedicated server with 37TB of SAS attached storage.

                                                                                       

We perform daily full and incremental backups of all our servers. The data backup is disk-to-disk-to-tape and is deduplicated as it is saved on the SAS storage. The deduplication process can create a very large number of file fragments, sometimes over 1,540,000 fragments on a 2TB disk array. With Diskeeper EnterpriseServer automatic defrag running the response time of the arrays is approaching 0.02 second delay due to fragmentation. This has reduced our backup time by approximately 25 percent for any D2D2T job. 

SRHD also uses Microsoft Hyper-V and currently has 31 virtualized servers running on an Intel Modular Server. There are 72TB of storage available to the Modular Server via SAS connections featuring dual path IO. All of the data on the SAS arrays is maintained in RAID 60 logical disk drives. Since setting up V-locity, which has built-in support for VHD (virtual hard disks), with automatic defragmentation, our VHDs very seldom show any fragmentation. 

                                                         

The solutions also have the intelligence to monitor disk IO and the defragmentation will pause to prevent IO latency affecting performance. They are set and forget applications which perform a very well without impact on our server response times."

-Larry Smith, Spokane Regional Health District

Bruce Pechman the "Muscleman of Technology" stopped by out booth at a CES media event. We talked a bit about the upcoming new Diskeeper release and he was kind enough to express his enthusiasm to us in writing so we could publish it:

As a TV Technology Journalist, high-end computer enthusiast, hard core gamer, and a person who is consistently buying the fastest computer money can buy, I need my computers to have super fast performance without any bottle necks every minute of every day.

From expensive SSD’s, to traditional rotational Hard Disk Drives—in every combination you can think of, my computers always run flawlessly and speedily thanks to an awesome software program called Diskeeper!

Right now my primary computer is the “Maingear Shift” with an Intel i980 Extreme Processor overclocked to 4.3 Ghz, it’s almost $6,000 and I can’t tolerate any slowdowns from my dual Western Digital 10,000 RPM VelociRaptors hard drives.

The facts are really quite simple. All types of computers will experience disk fragmentation and it can definitely worsen over time if nothing is done to prevent it. Disk fragmentation is the culprit for many annoying computer symptoms such as slow application performance, long boot times, unexplained system slow downs, crashes, etc. Diskeeper prevents these issues from cropping up.I have been religiously using Diskeeper over the years so my computers can realize the full benefits of system performance and reliability...and I can’t wait to install the new Diskeeper 2011—just set it and “forget about it”!

Whether I’m on deadline, overclocking an Intel Extreme processor, or playing Mafia II with every performance benchmark set to maximum settings, Diskeeper is a must install on every computer I own. 

Bruce Pechman, The Muscleman of Technology (www.MrBicep.com) America’s Best-Built Technology & Fitness Television Personality Muscleman of Technology, LLC Bruce Pechman, The Muscleman of Technology® (Muscleman of Technology, LLC), is a Consumer Technology and Fitness Personality appearing regularly on “Good Morning San Diego” (KUSI-TV) and the KTLA Morning Show in Hollywood. Bruce’s moniker reflects his 20 years of industry technology expertise, and 30 years of fitness training. He has made over 250 live TV appearances on major network television. Visit him at www.mrbicep.com 

Short 1950s style defrag ad here. Free trialware here.

Diskeeper 2010 was reviewed on Top Ten Reviews and won the Gold award.

Diskeeper offers a large list of powerful features for both general computer users and advanced experts. Diskeeper is a top performer, surpassing all the other disk defragmenter software reviewed as a result of its impressive feature set and very fast performance.

The video is also here.