An IT staff, as anyone who has been there knows, already has a veryoverfull plate. When routine tasks are added to the implementation anddebugging of hardware and applications and the handling of routineemergencies, it means longer hours for -- and lengthening response timesfrom -- IT personnel. And when a disaster such as a power outage or asudden malware infection occurs in such circumstances, it can bring anenterprise to a dead stop.

Upgrades and patch distribution and installation, backups, disasterrecovery, user preferences and tendencies, and resource allocation are justa few of the time-consuming routine activities which should be fullyautomated within a corporation. Doing so makes it possible for precious IThours to be devoted to more valuable tasks.

To this list -- and perhaps at the top of it -- should be added automaticdefragmentation. File fragmentationis one of the most basic blocks to fast system performance and response,and the addressing of it can be a hidden drain on IT hours and resources.Most corporations are still utilizing scheduled defragmentation, whichmeans defragmentation must be scheduled so that access to volumes isconsistently fast. It not only needlessly burns up IT hours, in today'sfrantic computing environments it is no longer effective; fragmentationcontinues to build up and impact performance in between scheduled runs, andin some cases of very large volumes isn't even defragmenting at all.

Since CIOs have cost-cutting as a priority, it should also be noted thatsince scheduled fragmentation is not fully addressing the fragmentation problem, disk driveshave to work harder to process I/O requests. Half to three-quarters of theexpected life of a disk drive can be eliminated by the excess wear and teardue to access of fragmented files. Hence it greatly behooves an enterpriseto implement a solution which will truly do the job.

A fully automatic defragmentationsolution addresses all of these problems. It requires no scheduling, sovaluable IT hours can be spent elsewhere. It defragments whenever andwherever possible, so system performance is constantly maintained, andhardware life is assured. It uses only idle resources so there is nonegative performance hit during defragmentation.

Best of all, fully automatic defragmentation is a substantial step in thedirection of fully automating routine IT activities.

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