Diskeeper Cures Sluggish Servers at US District Court Site

Disk fragmentation is inherent in the design of today’s Windows-based environments and without disk defrag software can bring even the newest systems to a screeching halt, as was
discovered by the US district Court in Portland Maine after adding
several new servers support its growing network and to maximize
performance.

Beyond servicing internal demands of the court system itself, the court
also provides data online to lawyers and the public. Its Public Access
to Court Electronic Records system (PACER) for example, offers case
information to authorized users over the Internet. Public records,
forms, court opinions and rulings are also available online. As in any
business, the IT systems of this U.S. District Court must be kept
running smoothly at all times.

However, after an initial period of exceptional performance after the
hardware upgrades, even the newest servers became sluggish and many of
the court’s users began to voice complaints concerning the time it was
taking to access their files. Directory listings and file access, for
instance, were taking up to 10 seconds and even server response became
sluggish.

"One server, for example, took 20 minutes to shut down during reboot,"
says senior automation manager Kevin Beaulieu. "System deterioration
over time was just the ‘reality’ of the Windows world as far as we were
concerned."

In addition to this a steady dwindling in performance on all servers,
backups began to take longer than expected. "We also experienced system
hangs and other reliability problems." These problems needed to be
addressed in order to obtain the system performance, reliability and
ROI objectives the court originally set out to achieve with their
hardware upgrade.

The U.S. District Court’s solution was to install a third party network
defragmenter on each of their servers and workstations. A network
defrag Diskeeper
program checks each file and partition to determine which files need to
be defragmented and which should be moved to another location to
provide more contiguous free space.

To accomplish this online, so that defrag could occur seamlessly in the
background while continuing to support the high demand for system
access simultaneously, the U.S. District Court chose Diskeeper.

Diskeeper software provides unparalleled performance and reliability to
laptops, desktops and servers. With over 26 million licenses sold, home
users to large corporations rely on Diskeeper for a variety of system
management tools.

Despite the advanced state of fragmentation at the government site in Maine, the disk defrag software Diskeeper
rapidly consolidated all servers and workstations. "The results gotten
from Diskeeper compare favorably to what I’ve seen from major hardware
upgrades," Beaulieu pointed out.

By defragmenting its entire network, the U.S. District Court site in
Portland, Maine, significantly accelerated performance and system
reliability. "The time it takes to boot a server has dropped from 20
minutes to 45 seconds," he added.

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