Built-In Defrag: Not Added Value

BURBANK, CA, Apr 29 (MARKET WIRE) --
There are many companies that have added built-in products to their
offerings over the years, with varying degrees of success. Most recently,
Hewlett-Packard has announced new firewall products that will run on top
of their switch platform. The products have yet to be reviewed, but it
appears that given their track record for robust and useful hardware and
software, this will definitely be a value-added proposition.

Another company, which offers public company valuation software, has added
a built-in analyzer tool. The tool compares a target company with up to 50
companies selected by the valuator, saving up to 80 percent of the time
normally taken for such an analysis. This built-in addition would also
seem to add value.

While built-in additions have added value in some cases, in other
scenarios they have not. For example, the defrag tool built into the
Windows operating system not only doesn't add value, if solely relied
upon as a defragmentation solution, actually detracts. Companies have
discovered that when the considerable time and effort is invested into
using this product, symptoms of fragmentation such as slow response
times, decreased hardware life and even disk crashes continue to occur.

One primary reason is that built-in defrag runs must be scheduled. Due to
the fact that many systems today must be constantly up and running,
scheduling is at best difficult. In between what runs can be scheduled,
file fragmentation continues to build and impact performance and
reliability across the entire enterprise. Substantial costs are added when
overtime IT hours to arrange defrag scheduling are also factored in.

There are other problems with this tool that decrease its "added value" as
well. Only one instance of the built-in defragmenter can be run at a time,
and there are no facilities for viewing the state of fragmentation on
drives or their condition after defrag has run.

The only true solution to today's fragmentation problems is an automatic
one. Fragmentation must be consistently addressed, in the background,
utilizing only otherwise-idle resources. No costly scheduling is ever
required, and there is never a negative performance impact on users. In
fact, the only thing users notice is the maximized performance and
reliability of their systems.

In the case of the built-in defragmenter, it is not added value -- in
fact, it is value detracted from an otherwise versatile and robust
operating system. To gain the utmost value from the OS, a separately
purchased defrag solution -- one developed by defragmentation experts --
is the real added value.

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