Melbourne, Australia
C-level executives lead busy lives. Flooded with information from a countless variety of communication channels, it is sometimes easy to miss vital information that could be saving their companies serious amounts of money -- especially in terms of time and efficiency of their internal information systems. Such is the case with defragmentation or "defrag" software.
At a recent survey of high level executives revealed that although many had heard of defrag, most were not familiar with it or how important it could be to the running of their information systems. Yet, defrag is so important, that CIOs and CEOs who use this software on their systems couldn't consider ever being without it once they have seen the positive effects. The fact that many of the largest companies and governmental agencies in the world have defrag on their systems is a testimony to its importance.
Why is defrag so important? Hard drives by default scatter data all over the disk as new information is written to the drive. With the ever-increasing size of hard drives and networks, the more scattered the information on the drives, the longer it takes for data to be retrieved, and the slower a system becomes. This is a process known as fragmentation. As the situation continues to worsen, the system can crash or shut down.
Defrag handles this problem by reorganizing files back to one continual unit so data can be rapidly accessible. Free space -- can also be wildly fragmented -- is also organized into contiguous units, significantly increasing system speed.
Fragmented hard drives cause serious problems in other areas of systems administration such as system backups, virtualization, and networking. Defrag is especially valuable to large companies with hundreds or thousands of workstations. The problem of cluttered, unorganized hard drives, when multiplied by a hundred or a thousand fold, leads to significant loss of production or the need for a premature replacement cost.
Most of the biggest companies in the world have a version of defrag software installed on their systems, providing their enterprise with the combined cost savings and increase in productivity a savings that is projected to be in the billions, it is little wonder that word "defrag" is spreading up the corporate ladder.
Source: Business Wire (Business Wire India)