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Volume 2 • Issue 11

InvisiTasking™

Technology—The END of Scheduling?

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Tips and Tricks forDiskeeper 2007

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With InvisiTasking Technology:Why you need to upgrade

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Diskeeper Corporation, formerly ExecutiveSoftware®, was founded on July 22, 1981. During this time, the company has logged manytechnical achievements in the VMS and Windows®

industries with products like Diskeeper.

Diskeeper Corporation is a global corporationdistributed in six continents—North America,South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.Our software products are distributed in everymajor country in the world. Due to our size andfocus on system management tools, you cantrust that our products will always be dependableand that the technical support you receive will be among the fastest and most knowledgeable in the industry.

For general information onDiskeeper Corporation or any ofour products, please email,telephone or write to us. Ifthere is specific informationyou require, contact any of thebelow suitable representativesand they will be pleased to helpwith any inquiries.

About DiskeeperCorporation

ContentsInvisiTasking Technology—The END of Scheduling? 3

Customers Upgrade to Diskeeper 2007and Tell Us Their Results 5

Diskeeper 2007 Tips & Tricks 6

The Diskeeper Corporation Maintenance Agreement 11

New Diskeeper 2007 Receives Media Awards and Reviews 12

General Contact info:Diskeeper Corporation

7590 N. Glenoaks Blvd.Burbank, California

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Technical: technicalsupport@diskeeper.com

PR: Colleen Toumayan—ctoumayan@diskeeper.com

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Enhancing File SystemPerformance—Automatically™

Undelete®

Worry-free dataprotection and

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Systems managementsoftware and patch management made simple

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InvisiTaskingTechnology in Diskeeper 2007—

Exciting New technology automates diskdefragmentation for optimal performanceDiskeeper made its reputation with the trademarked phrase“Set It and Forget It”®, meaning you just scheduled Diskeeperand forgot about it. Defragmentation was done on a scheduledbasis keeping systems at peak performance and reliability.

Times change though. Disk drives have grown to exponen-tially large proportions. With the growth of disk drives hascome an explosion in the size and number of files storedon disk drives. With terabyte drives (a trillion bytes) nowreadily available and smaller drives selling for very littlemoney, you can store a LOT of stuff—practically anything.And file sizes continue to increase as well.

Documents with embedded graphics, large presentations,scanned images, multi-media files, etc., are now residing onhard drives. The vast quantities of these and their inordi-nate size (plus the fact that these media files need to residecontiguously on a disk for optimal use) present new chal-lenges for computer performance and reliability, makingdefragmentation more critical than ever.

As disks grow bigger and files grow larger and more numer-ous, defragmentation is required more and more often tomaintain a computer’s peak performance and reliability.This makes it absolutely vital to handle disk fragmentationas soon as it occurs. But scheduling a resource-intensivetask—such as daily or even hourly defragmentation—canbe a scary proposition for IT staff.

System tasks such as defragmentation, backups and mal-ware scans are therefore often scheduled for off-hours, orduring downtime. This approach is taken to minimize theinterference caused by maintenance. Waiting for scheduledmaintenance tasks, however, can introduce negativeeffects between scheduled activities, and it can bringabout unavoidable negligence in mission-critical serversthat cannot be taken off-line.

Additionally, the scheduling itself is a maintenance chorewhich adds administrative overhead. IT staff need toensure scheduling is understood and correctly set for eachsystem. Follow-up is needed—did the job run? Is it com-plete, and so on?

InvisiTasking—Completely Automatic,Undetectable DefragmentationWhile many software products attempt to run invisibly in thebackground and some strides have been made, completeand utter transparency on mission-critical systems hasnever before been achieved—until now.

InvisiTasking is a remarkable new technology which enablesDiskeeper 2007 to run invisibly with absolutely no intrusionon system resources. As CPU and I/O resources are almostnever fully utilized, InvisiTasking’s transparency is achieved byundetectably tapping into these unused system resources.

Software engineers sometimes attempt to share resources bychoosing lower CPU priorities to run under, and past effortshave been made at throttling disk I/O. Windows allocates CPUresources using a kind of hybrid round robin/priority based,pre-emptive scheduling. One aspect of this scheme can causelow priority processes to unnecessarily pre-empt higher priorityprocesses, starving them of CPU resources.

InvisiTasking utilizes a technique to avoid using a com-puter’s resources when higher priority processes need torun. InvisiTasking takes a proactive approach to instantlydetect resource usage, ensuring that Diskeeper never pre-empts users or primary services on a computer system.InvisiTasking is so good that it is all but impossible to evendetect whether Diskeeper 2007 is running.

It’s important to note that InvisiTasking is far more advancedthan any low-priority I/O approaches that do “I/O throttling.”First off, InvisiTasking goes beyond I/O to address all systemresource usage. With Low Priority I/O approaches, there canstill be some contention for resources at the disk and it doesnothing to address other system resources. It applies a pro-active (rather than re-active) approach designed to trulydeliver background operation.

InvisiTasking is essentially a resource delegation frameworkallowing the OS to operate at a higher efficiency. InvisiTasking

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achieves across-the-board compatibility by allowing applica-tions and services to operate under an additional layer ofresource allocation. When operating in the InvisiTaskingframework, even I/O intensive processes are able to achievetransparency.

Diskeeper 2007 with InvisiTasking—Truly AutomaticDiskeeper 2007 is designed to go to work on the fly inreal-time—when needed. Since it runs transparently withno intrusion on system resources, no scheduling is neededby IT staff. Defragmentation begins almost immediately.As automatic as the sun rising and setting, Diskeeperkeeps systems running at optimum speed and reliability atall times. The result? Less downtime, less work and troublefor IT staff and boosted user productivity. That is why maxi-mum benefit to you comes from deploying Diskeeper onevery system you manage.

You may be skeptical at first that InvisiTasking has virtuallyno impact on system overhead. For this reason, you can

schedule times when Diskeeper is prevented from running.Eventually, we’re sure you’ll be convinced and this type oflock-out scheduling will be forgotten. You’ll see the benefitsof running Diskeeper on every system. The scheduling erais over and the era of truly automatic, invisible defragmen-tation has begun.

Someday in the future, could all system maintenance activ-ities be done in real-time as needed, even on criticalservers with round-the-clock uptime? With InvisiTasking, webelieve so. Such a paradigm shift would mark the end ofscheduling and scripting maintenance tasks and allow fortruly automatic processing.

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Take new Diskeeper 2007 with InvisiTasking for a

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The Diskeeper 2007 Multimedia Tour —View It Online Today!Diskeeper Corporation recently released an updated version of The Diskeeper Multimedia Tour — a dynamicinteractive Flash presentation.

This exciting and in-depth tour takes you on a journey from learning about the debilitating effects of fragmentation, to how Diskeeper combatsfragmentation automatically, site-wide.

Also included is information on the revolutionary disk performance calibration of I-FAAST™, BreakthroughInvisiTasking technology, Frequently Asked Questions,and whitepaper excerpts.

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InvisiTasking Technology—The END of Scheduling?continued from page 3

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“As usual, Diskeeper keeps gettingbetter and faster. I have been usingyour product since it first became avail-able. It does a great job, and solves alot of problems for end-users. My ASPbusiness depends on your software forour mission-critical servers.”

—J. Massey, President,Out of the Blue Solutions, Inc.

“This latest upgrade is even easier touse than the previous versions. I havebeen using Diskeeper for many yearsnow and I am finding the latest versionto be truly fully automatic when itcomes to defragmenting. I especiallylike the constant monitoring and back-ground defragmenting. The ‘I-FAAST’technology is also great. I think that it istruly a breakthrough in allowing fasteraccess to most frequently used files.

“I have found the defragmenter easyto install (this was an upgrade/update) and even easier to use.

Actually, I don’t need to do anything,as Diskeeper takes care of defrag-mentation for me.

“Keep up the good work and the con-stant innovation. It is a pleasure touse software that works so well.”

—S. Sloshberg, Supervisor

“The upgrade from previous versionwas painless. No scheduling needed,yet it kept my previous settings!”

—L.Wright, Network Engineer

“I was first acquainted with Diskeeperwhile I was working as a systems man-ager for an OpenVMS system atGeorgetown University. We acquired alicense and ran the product on the Alpha2100 in a maintenance schedule.

“I acquired a desktop for work and con-figured it with NT Workstation in 1998.It was a powerful Pentium processor—top of the line in those days. It worked

wonderfully, but the per formancebegan to degrade. NTFS was advertisedto be “fragment free,” if I recall. (Nottrue.) Diskeeper Corporation came tothe answer and offered a workstationproduct modeled after the OpenVMSproduct. I immediately purchased alicense and experienced the benefits.The workstation ran like a top from thenforward. Several of my colleagues wereimpressed by my experience andacquired licenses of their own. We allagreed, a desktop version would besweet, but likely unavailable given themid-range systems origin of the prod-uct…. Could such a great technology berepackaged into a desktop productwithout tearing down the mid-range sys-tems market? We could only hope.

“I purchased more licenses ofDiskeeper Professional Edition and ranthe software on a rigorous schedule.

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CUSTOMERSUPGRADE TODISKEEPER 2007

AND TELL US THEIR RESULTS

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Important: your very first stepsDownload trialware at www.diskeeper.com/newsk92.

During software installation a box will pop up that will askyou to enable Diskeeper 2007 to defragment automatically.Ensure that the checkbox is NOT checked. After Diskeeperfinishes installing, open up the Diskeeper user interface.

Analyze Volumes: take a “before” snapshotDiskeeper 2007 automatically defragments all volumes bydefault. However, you will want to view a baseline meas-urement of fragmentation and look at Diskeeper’s recom-mendations for each volume. There are multiple ways toanalyze volumes on your system:

• Select the volume to be analyzed. If there is more thanone volume, hold down the Ctrl key and click on eachadditional volume to be analyzed. Then click on theAnalyze button.

• Alternatively, with the volume(s) selected, you may also click on the Analyze icon in the toolbar.

Results for each selected volume will appear in separatepop-up windows, a new feature in Diskeeper 2007. Eachwindow has two tabs: Volume Map and Job Report.

The volume map tab provides a color-coded graphical repre-sentation of the analyzed volume. Using the drop-down box,you can change between the File Structure view and the FilePerformance view. This view shows File Structure.

DISKEEPER 2007Tips &Tricks

Hand’s On with Diskeeper 2007: getting the most out of your evaluation

Diskeeper 2007 with InvisiTasking technology is designed to be an automatic defragmenter. WhileDiskeeper still allows manual defragmentation, this is not the way the product is intended to be used, northe way you would typically use it. To best understand the advantages of fully automatic operation,Diskeeper 2007 should be installed and allowed to run in its default configuration for at least several days.

VOLUME MAP TAB

CHANGE VIEW DROP-DOWN BOX

COLOR CODEDANALYSIS

COLOR KEYS

SAVE BUTTON

ANALYZE

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Clicking on the Job Report tab located next to the VolumeMap tab displays a comprehensive statistical report on theanalyzed volume, along with recommendations for perform-ance improvement and a volume health report. Diskeeper2007 will also display a list of the most fragmented files ifyou click on the “View” icon at the bottom of the screen.

SAVE both the Volume Map and the Job report for future ref-erence by clicking on the “Save” buttons at the bottom of thescreens. You will need these reports to see first-handDiskeeper hard at work on your system.

Click on Properties in the main Diskeeper user interface andchoose Automatic Defragmentation from the drop-down menu.

Click on the checkbox to “Enable AutomaticDefragmentation on the selected volumes.”

Close the Diskeeper interface and continuewith your work as usual. Automatic defragmen-tation will begin almost immediately. There isNO scheduling needed. With the InvisiTaskingtechnology, Diskeeper will be able to workentirely in the background to defragment yourhard drives with no impact on system overhead.

Return to the Diskeeper interface after severaldays. Do another analysis on the volumes thathave been automatically defragmented andview the results in the Volume Map and Job

Report. In addition, you can also check the various tabs inthe main user interface: the Dashboard Tab to review per-formance gains and drive health, and the History Tab toreview historical graphs of fragments eliminated.

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RECOMMENDATIONS

ACCESS TIME

STATISTICS

SAVE BUTTON

HEALTH & WARNINGS

VIEW FRAGMENTEDFILES

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Whether you’re still applying patchesmanually or you have a managementsystem in place, you need to buySitekeeper 3.5!

Sitekeeper makes patch managementas easy as clicking your mouse. No dedicated hardware needed, no dictionary-size manual to read —Sitekeeper is so straightforward that

most first-time users can completely automate theirpatch management in under an hour.

Sitekeeper also handles and automates hardware andsoftware inventories, license compliance reports, andeven remote automated software installation — and it’sincredibly affordable.

“This was our first use of Sitekeeper (specificallythe Patchkeeper™ module) at this level and itworked flawlessly. In less than an hour, I had automatically patched 94 servers.

“Before we used this product, this effort wouldhave required two dedicated days from me to do each server individually. Talk about ROI! My manager was very impressed as well.”

—John O’Brien, Senior Network Systems Engineer, Keane, Inc.

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Even “saved over” versionsof Microsoft® Office files!

How many users have called your Help Desk in a panicsaying they’ve lost or overwritten a critically importantfile? The Windows server recycle bin doesn’t protectfiles deleted by network clients. Restoring files frombackup takes forever, and may not get the latest versionof the file. And neither backup nor “snapshots” can helpif a user has saved over the version he or she needs.

Now there is a solution—new Undelete 5! Undelete 5replaces the recycle bin with a Recovery Bin that cap-tures and protects all deleted files, no matter how theywere deleted. Undelete works in real time, so it alwayshas the latest version of the file—and in the case ofMicrosoft Word®, Excel® and PowerPoint® files, it caneven recover earlier “saved-over” versions.

Best yet, recovering files with Undelete 5 is instant—allit takes is a few clicks of the mouse. Undelete 5 evengives you the option of letting users recover their ownfiles from server Recovery Bins!

• Undelete 5 Server Edition captures and protects deleted files on your servers.

• Undelete 5 Client allows network users torecover their deleted files from the server.

• Undelete 5 Professional Edition provideslocal file protection plus client functionality.

“We are very happy with the product and its extremeease of use. It’s true that I can generally get lost filesfrom my backup tapes, but using Undelete is muchfaster and easier. Undelete also lets me restore lostfiles that haven’t been backed up to tape, but wereeither modified incorrectly or deleted.”

—Jeff Vargason, Barr Nunn Transportation, Inc.

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Diskeeper combined with AntiVirus and AntiSpyware, the sys-tems were rescued from a spiral of performance degrada-tion. I trialed the I-FAAST technology in the Diskeeper ProPremier, and I was sold immediately.

“You also have great customer service. You have made mea lifetime customer!

“Thank you, Diskeeper, for your excellent product and youroutstanding support. We have a long and valuable relation-ship, and I will recommend your product to all who run‘fraggy systems.’”

—E. Skinner, A Large Hotel Chain

“I have always been impressed by Diskeeper software. I usedDiskeeper 7 at home before I even got my first IT job. Then,when I found myself in a position to present a defragmenta-tion solution for our company, I already knew where to start.

“At that time Diskeeper 10 was the current version and Icontacted the sales department to get a quote. We pur-chased 100 workstation and 5 server licenses; whichenabled us to receive Diskeeper Administrator at no charge.We also purchased the maintenance package, and I’m soglad we did! A few months after I deployed Diskeeper 10throughout two locations (we’re now ‘topped-up’), I receivedan email letting me know that the newest version Diskeeper2007 was ready for download.

“Smart Scheduling™ in v10 was great; Automatic Defrag-mentation in v2007 is awesome! Everything I loved aboutv10, from the interface and ease of use to the control thatthe Administrator edition provides, all became even better.Sleek new tweak on the interface, slightly reordered menusand a flow-chart-style Getting Started page completelyenhance the administrator experience.

“The new Dashboard area is much more robust than itspredecessor and provides precision information. Real-timedefragmentation status and idle resources usage along witheliminated fragments reports and volume health recom-mendations bring the most important information to youright up front.

“I can honestly credit Diskeeper with eliminating performancedegradation throughout the locations I am responsible for. Nomore general system slowness or application hangs due toheavy fragmentation; it has proven to be an invaluable tool.”

—A. Magness, Citrus & Allied Essences, Ltd.

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CUSTOMERS UPGRADE TO DISKEEPER 2007continued from page 5

Download our free utility today—find out the fragmentation level of every machine at your site!The Disk Performance Analyzer for Networks™ is a freeutility that detects and reports severe fragmentation-related performance loss on your networked systems.

The Performance Analyzer provides single-pointanalysis of each system’s disk performance. It iden-tifies performance bottlenecks that might otherwisego undetected—turning machines into sluggish,maintenance-hogging headaches.

Download this free utility and find out today howfragmentation is severely affecting the performanceof your systems. With Disk Performance Analyzer forNetworks, you can zero in on the machines thatneed attention and handle them before they turninto help desk problems.

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Fragmentation Cripplesthe Performance and

Speed of Your

Entire Network

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Customers are taking advantage of our special enterprise licensing program called the Diskeeper Corporation Premier Customer Program.

Find out how to join the growing list of companiesthat are putting Diskeeper Corporation software on every system at their site!

Call to see if you qualify for special volume license pricingand incentives, as well as award-winning personal techsupport. Speak to your corporate account representative,or have your preferred reseller contact us.

Call 800-829-6468 code 9326.Email us at premier@diskeeper.comRequest a site-wide quote online now—www.diskeeper.com/newsk97.

Premier Treatment for Our Valued Customers

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The Diskeeper CorporationMaintenance Agreement—KEEP YOUR SOFTWARE CURRENT AUTOMATICALLY

Receive upgrades

automatically when new

software versions are

released

Would you like to always have the most currentversion of your software at the best possibleprice— even at a savings of up to 50%*?

Diskeeper Corporation Maintenance Programsare available for volume license products(Diskeeper, Sitekeeper and Undelete).

With a 1- or 2-year Diskeeper maintenance agree-ment, you’re guaranteed to get new versions ofDiskeeper at no additional cost. Purchasing main-tenance for your volume license gives you a dra-matic cost savings of up to 50% compared to anupgrade purchase. Maintenance can pay for itselfwith only one upgrade!

Maintenance Program Benefits:Free updates and upgrades provided automatically.

Cost Savings: our 1- or 2-year maintenance pro-gram is up to 50% less than the cost for buyingupgrades.

Easy Budget Management: our renewable mainte-nance programs make it easy to budget for futureexpenses. Furthermore, no additional costs areincurred for upgrades, as they are covered underthe maintenance program.

Convenient Website Downloads: quick and easyaccess to downloading updates from our site.

Efficiency: have the latest and greatest versionsof the software, which always includes the new-est features and enhancements.

With a maintenance agreement on your volumelicense software, you will be among the first to auto-matically receive your free upgrade to your productduring the agreement period. This way, you alwaysstay up-to-date on your software, have the newesttechnology available and enjoy the benefits.

A maintenance agreement also provides the advan-tage of being able to budget your software costs forthe next 1–2 years (depending on contract length).

If you have any questions regarding the DiskeeperCorporation Maintenance Program, please contactyour favorite reseller or a Diskeeper Corporationsales representative at 800-829-6468 code 9327.

*savings depends on product purchased and volume license level of software.

© 2006 Diskeeper Corporation. All Rights Reserved. The Diskeeper Corporation logo, Diskeeper, Disk Performance Analyzer for Networks, Enhancing File System Performance—Automatically, ExecutiveSoftware, I-FAAST, InvisiTasking, Patchkeeper, Recovery Bin, Sitekeeper, Undelete, “Set It and Forget It”and Smart Scheduling are trademarks and/or registered trademarks owned by Diskeeper Corporation inthe United States and/or other countries. Microsoft, MS-DOS, Excel, Windows, Windows XP, Word andPowerPoint are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.All other trademarks and brand names are the property of their respective owners.

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Diskeeper 2007 Success!“The new InvisiTasking feature allowsDiskeeper to keep my volumes highlydefragmented while being truly invisibleto system users.”—Bill Whiting, President/CEO

Commercial Computer Services, Inc.

“Diskeeper 2007 Administrator made itvery easy to remotely install and managemultiple Diskeeper versions across adomain. Its centralized managementapproach works quite well on anythingfrom a laptop to a server, thus increasingthe usefulness of this utility.”—Ken Linger, VP of Technology,

Synergy Solutions, Inc.

New Diskeeper 2007

has swept an amazing

127 AWARDS from websites and media

since its release on October 17,

2006!

NewDiskeeper2007ReceivesMedia Awardsand Reviews{

“Diskeeper Corporation has introduced a totally new technologycalled InvisiTasking, and what it does is nothing short ofrevolutionary. InvisiTasking automatically defragments your hard drivesin the background, with near-zero impact on any other programsrunning on your system. Defragmentation is on the fly, withInvisiTasking backing off and going to sleep until there are enoughfree, idle resources to do its thing. With InvisiTasking, the need tomanually defragment drives and schedule defragmentation jobs are nolonger necessary, although you can still perform manualdefragmentation jobs if you want.

“Diskeeper 2007 Pro Premier has taken hands-off, hassle-freedefragmentation to a whole new level for the enthusiast serious aboutmaximizing hard disk performance while minimizing performance andstability-robbing disk fragmentation.”

Barry’s Rigs n Reviews by Barry Little

“I love the 2007—it is close to miraculous “

PC Primer by Roger Creighton