[July 22, 2008] Citrix, SQL and Other Major Server Applications Need Defrag Tweet (Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) BURBANK, CA, July 22 / MARKET WIRE/ -- When it comes to servers, the word "important" as it relates to reliability and uptime becomes a severe understatement. In today's corporate world, servers are the brains and backbones of the enterprise, for executives, employees and, most importantly, customers and prospects. Server-centric solutions such as SQL and CRM as well as architectures such as Citrix must deliver constant performance or a company's bottom line suffers. Server technology has come a long way from the single-box, single disk configuration it once was, having evolved solutions such as SAN (Storage Area Networks) and virtualization to make more efficient use of resources for greater power to deliver data and services. Chip technology such as quad-core has come about to keep pace with the constantly rising need for processing power in such environments. But despite all these advances, the cornerstone to server response remains the hard drives, as they remain the slowest components -- the "weakest links." Keeping those drives defragmented for optimum performance has long ago become a "given" -- but it's the defrag technology that can make the crucial difference between keeping drives at maximum performance and simply "functioning." With today's frantic pace of 24/7 server disk access, fragmentation is continuous and constant, and scheduled defragmentation cannot keep pace. In between scheduled defragmentation runs, fragmentation continues to build and in some cases isn't being addressed at all. To keep fragmentation from degrading workflow, a completely automatic solution such as Diskeeper? 2008 is needed to defrag invisibly, with no hit on system resources. "Diskeeper is a must have for any Citrix Server Farm environment, and does wonders for our SQL servers as well as our file servers," says Mont Little, CIO of Client Services, Inc. of St. Charles, Missouri. "It has been one of the few applications that provide so much value to the enterprise with so little effort." Unlike other solutions, Diskeeper also requires no scheduling as it runs whenever idle system resources are available. Hence, important IT hours are saved. Because Citrix performs all user functions on remotely-accessed servers, server performance equals user performance. Similarly, SQL and CRM access also only occurs on servers and company-wide efficiency is dependent on their response. Automatic and effective defrag are therefore crucial to their operation. A fully automatic defragmentation solution such as Diskeeper ensures that server performance is maintained with no further attention from IT personnel. Contact: Colleen Toumayan Email: [email protected] Copyright ? 2008 Marketwire [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]