Diskeeper Data Performance Software Cuts Back Up Times in Half

May 25, 2011

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BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Diskeeper Corporation today announced the release of new findings showing that Diskeeper speeds back-up times by 50%. Due to the advanced complexity of today’s backup solutions, simple defrag is no longer adequate. As traditional defrag has become outmoded, today a majority of enterprises address such issues with Diskeeper^® data performance software.

Jimmy Beltran, Lotus Notes Administrator for Sandvik, stated, “It used to take us 25 hours to perform our weekly backup of the Domino Servers. By using Diskeeper, we were able to reduce our back up time down to 9 hours. (64% reduction)”

Didier Guieu, System-Architecture Engineer at HSBC France, further stated, “Before Diskeeper, entire hours were needed to copy large amount[s] of data, and backups were not concluding. The data and files access times were taking far too long. We noticed that when the server was fragmented, the backup time sometimes needed twice as long to run.”

“Our backup times have been cut by about 75%,” said David Henry, Systems Administrator at AO Smith.

Robert Brown, IT Director, M&Q Plastic Products, also stated, “Diskeeper reduced the time needed to analyze and defragment our machines. I have seen a significant performance boost particularly on our Windows Servers. Backup times have definitely decreased. Approximately 60% improvement in backup for servers which were defragmented 9 hours down to 3.6 hours.”

Of all the computerized activities within a company, backup is one of the most time consuming and the most crucial to ensuring data is secure, anything which greatly helps facilitate backups is, also vital. Backups can be hindered by a number of factors. In the backup process, an entire data set needs to be read, and then copied elsewhere. This data set could be spread across one volume or many. If a high number of additional I/Os are required to read files before they are transferred, backup speed is heavily impacted. At best, the result is a backup that is greatly slowed down, and at worst it is a failed backup.

Additional I/Os are needed when files are split into multiple pieces, called fragments. It is not at all uncommon to see a file fragmented into thousands or even tens of thousands of fragments. The impact on backups of files in such a state is considerable.

New Diskeeper 2011 includes technology that uses the minimum disk Input/Output (I/O). 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 over 90% 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.

With Diskeeper employed, backup times are significantly faster to complete and cease to fail because of I/O bottleneck issues. It is part and parcel of any total enterprise backup solution.