Controlling the costs of disk fragmentation can deliver significant financial and productivity benefits if deployed correctly, yet many IT managers overlook this process as one of delivering little value. This is the opinion of David Anderson, CEO of Foster-Melliar, which has just made Raxco`s PerfectDisk Version 7.0 available to the South African market.
"Performance tests in Raxco`s labs indicate that a Windows 2000/XP machine will experience performance improvements of 30% - 70% after a disk has been defragmented. Savings are also realised for system operators who will have reduced fire-fighting requirements because end-users` machines will perform better," explains Anderson.
Raxco`s PerfectDisk Version 7.0 is the leading disk defragmentation and optimisation utility and defragments even the largest drives up to 20% faster than previous versions while utilising 20% less memory and 20% fewer CPU resources. It is the only defragmenter certified by Microsoft for Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server.
In a US cost saving study deploying PerfectDisk 2000 over a 1000 node NT Lan over a year period, dramatic findings were revealed.
"The financial savings amounted to $625 375 or $625 per user per year or $52 per user per month. Using this example, deploying PerfectDisk saved 20 834 hours of end-user and system productivity - think what your company can do with 20 000 extra hours of productivity. In addition, the faster response time and defragmentation being done offline means employees can spend more time on revenue-generating tasks such as processing orders and system administrators can spend more time on strategic planning," adds Anderson.
PerfectDisk Version 7.0 is available immediately from Foster-Melliar. For more information, log onto www.foster-melliar.co.za or call (011) 785 9900.
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