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You know you’ve arrived when your product becomes aclue on the television show
 Jeopardy!
 Back in April
2002
, the category was “words beginningwith d-e-” and the clue “Diskeeper is sotware to do this.”The correct response: “What is deragment?”That single moment in the annals o television quiz-showhistory demonstrates a clear and indisputable act:Diskeeper is synonymous with hard-disk deragmentation.Today,
19
years ater its introduction, Diskeeper is still theoverwhelming market-leading third-party standalone auto-matic deragmentation solution.With more than
17
million copies sold since its introductionin
1986
, Diskeeper currently holds a commanding
95
-per-cent market share among corporate hard-disk deragmen-tation sotware.Now in it’s ninth generation, Diskeeper is the sole choice o IT departments at more than hal o all Fortune
500
corpo-
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Reference Guide White Paper Series 
Innovation: The DrivingForce Behind Diskeeper
 
Two Decades of Technology Leadership Keeps Diskeeper as the Top Defragmentation Product Choice in Corporations
By Joel ShoreSeptember
2005
 
 
 Two Decades of Innovation: The Driving Force Behind Diskeeper
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rations. Among the Fortune top
10
corporations, Diskeeperis the standard at nine, installed on tens o thousands o their desktops, laptops, and servers.Tight
IT
budgets demand that desktop and laptop
PC
s re-main in service well beyond their prime. But as these sys-tems age, perormance degrades. The culprit most oten isfle ragmentation. Hard drives require regular deragmen-tation, reorganizing their contents so that each fle occupiesa contiguous area instead o being stored as many smallchunks. Deragmentation quantifably improves workerproductivity and extends system lie. It reduces calls to techsupport, reeing precious
IT
budget dollars or re-allocationto other projects.
An Expensive Drain on Worker Productivity 
Hard-drive ragmentation is costly.
120
employees losingjust
4
minutes per day to sluggish computer perormance isan aggregate annual productivity loss o 
2,080
hours, theexact equivalent o one ull-time employee. In a corpora-tion with
5,000
employees, it is comparable to having
42
no-show workers on the payroll. At an average ully-loadedsalary cost o 
$60,000
, the cost in lost productivity alone is
$2,520,000
. No business can aord that.Deragmentation is not a one-time housekeeping chore; itrequires a product that runs regularly and does so withoutany user interaction. The entry-level deragmentation util-ity built into Windows cannot be automated or scheduled,requiring direct user intervention each time it is run, a taskor which they are neither paid nor trained, urther reduc-ing productivity.Diskeeper’s Set It and Forget It™ automatic scheduling ca-pability is the answer. Users and network administratorsneed not worry about ragmentation-related slowdowns or,even worse, system crashes.
 This report was sponsored by Diskeeper Corp., however, the sponsor had no input into the contentof this report, conclusions reached, or opinions expressed by Reference Guide Testing Laboratories.
More than 300 of the Fortune 500companies havechosen Diskeeper as their corporatestandard for hard-disk defragmentation.
 
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 Technology Innovation
Diskeeper is not the only deragmentation product avail-able. Yet it leads the market by a wide margin, and withgood reason. A pioneer in the development o deragmenta-tion technology, the product has won the prestigious
 PC 
 Magazine
Editors’ Choice award or three years running. In
2004
alone, it garnered
231
awards.In winning the May
2005
 PC 
 Magazine
Editors’ Choiceaward, its editors said, “Diskeeper
9
is our Editors’ Choiceor advanced users who want a eature-packed utility.” Thereview goes on to note that “besides acing our perormancetests, the tool oers very detailed reporting both beore andater cleaning up a disk.”It is precisely this reporting that is essential to
IT
depart-ments as they monitor the health o individual systems.Microsot itsel has long recognized Diskeeper’s rich historyo technology innovation. Ater testing technology rom avariety o vendors, Microsot chose Diskeeper Corp. to de-velop the application programming interace in the Win-dows kernel that allows deragmentation to take place.In addition to being the frst deragmentation utility to beully Microsot Certifed or Windows
2000
when it wasoriginally released, Diskeeper continues to be the only net-work deragmenter ully certifed or all server and work-station versions. And that tradition continues: Diskeeperwas the frst deragmenter to receive the Microsot Enter-prise Certifcate or Windows
2003
Advanced Server andWindows
2003
Enterprise Server.Beyond its long association with Microsot, Diskeeper re-search remains at the oreront o the industry. Diskeeperengineers were the frst to implement terabyte volume sup-port, smart scheduling, and support or Active Directory.
 The Choice of Manufacturers and Dealers
No product stands on its own, and Diskeeper is no excep-
Disk fragmentationis very expensive:120 employees eachlosing just four minutes per day tosluggish computer performance is theequivalent of onefull-time employee.
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