In Holland, Logicx Installs Diskeeper

Logicx Mobiliteit BV, a growing salvage company with over 300 employees in Holland, gave feedback on the benefits of installing defragmentation software from Diskeeper Corporation on their company servers (mostly HP Proliants 380 and 360s) and also on a 4TB HP EVA 4000 SAN.

Peter Landman, ICT Manager for Logicx, already knew the benefits Diskeeper could bring to the company’s IT site, having known and used Diskeeper since the 1980s: "Since I am a long-time Diskeeper user (as far back as the 80s), it was the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw that we had fragmentation problems. It is software which I was certain would solve my problems."

However, in what is becoming a common oversight or ‘forgot to mention’ by SAN providers, their provider likewise hadn’t even alluded to the problem of fragmentation.

"The SAN vendor didn’t mention anything about possible fragmentation issues," Landman commented.

He continues: "After using the Windows [built in] tool for several months, we saw that we still had a fairly large percentage of fragmented files. Without further measuring we concluded that this was costing us too much performance and we bought and installed Diskeeper.

"…with its IntelliWrite technology, [Diskeeper] took care of those problems thus greatly improving the disk performance (especially the volumes on our HP EVA 4000). Within a week we saw a major improvement."

Mandeep Birdi, Technical Presales Consultant at Diskeeper Corporation Europe, comments: "It’s unfortunately becoming a little too common for me to hear from many customers who are adding SAN’s to their network estate, that their SAN vendor has either told them not to worry about fragmentation, or didn’t even mention it as a possible problem."

He continues: "Making full use of your SAN potential is vital. The I/O bottleneck issue has a huge affect on performance, and if the customer is not aware that this is what’s occurring in the SAN environment, it can end up costing the company a lot of money with thinking they have to purchase more hardware – Storage just isn’t that cheap after a while."

Thomas Doria, New Business Development Manager at Diskeeper Corporation Europe, comments: "We are not in competition with SAN vendors. On the contrary, we just want to ensure that everyone is working together with the correct information, so that users can maximise the benefit from their IT investment."