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The ROI of Defragmenting the Windows Enterprise

Overview Why is defragmentation so important? This paper covers disk fragmentation, the problems it creates, and how that translates to lost time and productivity on a massive scale. IDC conducted lab tests to find the actual performance and productivity losses caused by fragmentation and analyzed the costs vs. ROI for different methods of dealing with the problem. Read this white paper and see why defragmentation is vital to maintaining productivity and controlling costs.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Diskeeper	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2003	Downloads	15
Format	White Papers
Topics	Windows XP, High Performance Computing, ROI - TCO, Back-up

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