Whole Network Defragmentation
A wrong solution can become a problem and avoidance won't make it go away.

Entire site defragmentation can make a profound impact on network management and produce amazing performance increases—all at an economy of scale.

One of the most important focal points of a system administrator's job is the management of the network as a network. At this level of operation, overall network performance is monitored and managed with long-term, cost-effective solutions that create adequate expansion within budget.

Unfortunately, when the system admin has to put out fires daily and handle emergencies demanding stop-gap solutions, this overview is easy to lose sight of. The tendency is to sink into a one-system-at-a-time reactive handling. Some harried administrators employ the built-in disk defragmenter on a disk-by-disk basis. That's like using duct tape to fix a performance problem. It's a costly wrong solution that will burn up a budget while creating unnecessary work.

Disk fragmentation is a "whole network" problem that can masquerade as a hundred other problems and create a lot of unnecessary investigative work for the busy system administrator. Dr. Mark Lurie, owner of Quality Assurance Lab, a hardware and software testing lab that specializes in network component compatibility and performance, is very emphatic on this point:

"DISK FRAGMENTATION IS A FUNDAMENTAL REASON SYSTEM AND NETWORK COMPONENTS RUN POORLY AND PROBLEMS ARISE WHEN EXPANDING A NETWORK. YOU CANNOT TRULY EXPLOIT CUTTING EDGE HARDWARE AND FULLY OPTIMIZED COMPONENT INTERACTION WITHOUT AGGRESSIVE, AUTOMATIC DISK DEFRAGMENTATION."

Diskeeper is the preeminent network defragmenter and was designed from the ground up to deliver the full value of a comprehensive network solution. Here are some of the benefits of running Diskeeper on every server and workstation across the enterprise:

– The complete elimination of performance bottlenecking due to fragmentation across the boards—without requiring administrative assistance.

– Fully maintained performance increases up to 200%—without administrative assistance.

– Sharp reduction in help desk calls. Less human resources needed to manage the network.

– Extended hardware life (and hardware budget)—up to two years per IDC reports.

– The elimination of many "untraceable" bugs actually brought about by excessive fragmentation levels.

Why is the "free" manual defragmenter in Windows a duct tape solution?

– It cannot be scheduled.
– It cannot perform complete defragmentation.
– It requires administrative privileges to run.
– It is only used reactively once performance has deteriorated and the help desk calls start rushing in.
– Most importantly, it cannot be employed across the network in ANY capacity.