{pp}Everybody has at some stage probably heard of fragmentation. Right? In a nutshell, fragmentation is the disorganization of files on your hard disk, where files get scattered or broken up into hundreds or even thousands of pieces called fragments, which leads to system slowdowns, crashes or even total system failure. So what about it?Imagine an employee wanting to open a simple file, say a 20MB Word document to edit a quotation. Because your hard disk now has to search for all the fragments belonging to that file and consolidate them back into the original file, time is lost.
Time which could otherwise be used for sales, or performing critical tasks, or getting quotations done, or any other operation. Time gets wasted. Joe Kinsella (director of development for SilverBack Technologies) said in a Windows® IT Pro whitepaper titled, “The Impact of Disk Fragmentation”, “Hard drives will fragment over time as a result of normal user and system activities. Some activities, such as the installation of applications or service packs, can result in the rapid fragmentation of a disk. Other activities, such as surfing the Web or using office applications, can result in the gradual accumulation of fragmentation over longer periods of time.” So if fragmentation is a problem which affects our systems performance, should we be concerned about it? Well, consider what the time lost is worth to you. What if you have 100 employees, and they each lose 15minutes per day due to a slower system. This translates to 25hrs lost PER DAY.If your average wage is in the region of say, R25/hr, then this would translate to a monetary value of R625/day. Can you sustain this cost to the enterprise? As we now know, fragmentation is gradual, so what if in a year, your network and workstations have become even slower? The daily cost of fragmentation will go even higher! Can you AFFORD to let fragmentation affect you? So what can be done about it? The answer is Diskeeper® 2007 disk defragmenter with the breakthrough InvisiTasking™ technology, which runs automatically in the background, with no need to ever have to schedule a defragmentation session ever again! It uses slack resources to work in the background, so that it does not affect you while you are working. Furthermore, you can see exactly what is happening every step of the way on the easy-to-read digital dashboard. Diskeeper® has the perfect edition to suite your needs from the basic user to the power user and also has powerful solutions for servers and network administrators, with both 32-bit and 64-bit support. Visit www.blissit.co.za today, and download your FREE fully functional 30-day trial version of Diskeeper® 2007 to rid your system of fragmentation forever and see the value of Diskeeper® to your organisation! Contact Details: Charl Hoole, Founder Bliss IT Solutions cc Tel: 0834117471 / 0466483428Fax: 0866215649 e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. www.blissit.co.za
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