openBench Labs Tested Condusiv Diskeeper 12 Windows Acceleration Solution

Condusiv Technologies Corp., formerly Diskeeper Corporation, announced the results of benchmark testing of its Diskeeper 12 acceleration solution vs. Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2012.

The testing was conducted by Westborough, MA-based openBench Labs, an independent IT industry source providing evaluation and certification of IT products and services.

Big data, online transactions, cloud computing, and other strategic business IT initiatives are creating new challenges for IT executives tasked with optimizing performance and ROI. Among the dynamics yet to be explored and measured until now is the rise in I/O requests caused by file fragmentation on servers and workstations and its implications for storage, operations and application performance over time.

openBench Labs’ results found the benefits of using Diskeeper to prevent fragmentation and eliminate huge volumes of I/O requests to storage both dramatic and far-reaching.

"We are finally getting a deep look into the hard facts on the impact of the rise of I/O requests caused by file fragmentation," said Jerry Baldwin, CEO of Condusiv Technologies. "Until now, substantial CAPEX hardware investment was the IT solution to improve performance and capacity. Now we are able to solve this problem for a fraction of the investment and most of the time, protect the customer’s existing investment in CAPEX equipment."

The openBench Labs’ report benchmarks the ability of Diskeeper and Condusiv’s IntelliWrite technology to maximize I/O performance for server and desktop systems by restructuring the way data gets written to disk to minimize and prevent file fragmentation.

All of the tests described here can be replicated by IT professionals as they evaluate new strategies on the basis of five questions:

How susceptible are Windows 7 and Windows Server 2012 to file fragmentation?
How does file fragmentation affect system performance and end-user perception?
How does file fragmentation affect operating conditions on physical storage systems?
Does the built-in Windows utility sufficiently remediate the effects of file fragmentation over time?
How much does preventing fragmentation help?

This report explores the issues of I/O and fragmentation from the ground up, details test methodologies, and quantifies the benefit and impact of employing Diskeeper 12.

"After running an intensive defragmentation process consumed over 80% of a core processor, the built-in Windows 7 defragmentation utility reported that all file fragmentation had been eliminated; however, when we examined our system volume with Microsoft’s Sysinternals DiskView utility, we discovered a storage space that was far from being completely defragmented," said Dr. Jack Fegreus, founder and MD of openBench Labs. "In testing the effects of file fragmentation on the latest Windows server and desktop OSs, Diskeeper 12 offered significant advantages for end users by maintaining optimal application performance with respect to both storage and CPU resources and equally significant advantages for IT operations by reducing physical I/O operations performed by storage resources, which reduces power consumption."

Diskeeper 12 openBench Labs Finding Highlights

Up to 98% fewer physical I/O requests were generated with Diskeeper versus the Windows built-in defragmentation utility, which lowers electric power consumption while improving I/O performance.
Diskeeper prevented 99% of file writes from fragmenting.
Data throughput rates increased -1.3X improvement on servers and 5X on workstations, verses Window built-in defragmentation utility.
During a one-week period, no file or free space fragmentation occurred on heavily utilized workstations.
I/O performance improved across all environments using DK12.
Storage volumes performed at optimized levels throughout the testing.
Idle CPU time improved by 100%
Application throughput was maximized.
Boot-up times improved by more than 50% vs. using the Windows built-in defragmentation utility.

To read openBench Labs Executive Summary and Complete Executive Briefing