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Return-on-investment (ROI) means a lot to companies, especially in economically turbulent times such as these. When an organization invests in a piece of equipment, a new advertising campaign, a property or even an employee, they are very carefully monitoring the money made back to cover the outlay and provide profit as well. Anything that doesn’t fit these criteria is quickly cut loose.

Because a corporation invests so heavily in IT, a sharper-than-normal eye is kept on ROI from that quarter. Expenditures for hardware (which can be especially costly), software, programming and maintenance contracts must show substantial returns to receive approval from those ever-watchful bean counters.

One basic factor that can cut straight across the ROI for all of the above is file fragmentation. It greatly slows system performance, which impacts the return for software, hardware, virtually every employee and the company itself when it cannot deliver products and services in a timely manner. It impacts IT because they must chase and “put out fires” rooted in fragmentation. And it also impacts hardware life; a disk drive that must work many times harder to retrieve file fragments, can wear out as much as 50 percent faster.

While many may know that defragmentation boosts performance for all employees and increases computer life, they may not know that it takes the right defrag technology to actually do so.

The defrag technology in common use is scheduled defragmentation. At the time it was invented, it was a significant advancement; prior to scheduled defragmentation, it had to be performed manually during off hours by a live human. It had to be performed during off-hours because the defragmentation process would negatively slow down performance for any users on the system. Scheduling meant that defragmentation could occur unattended during times when computers weren’t in use. Now, however, “times when computers aren’t being used” are becoming few and far between as many shops remain operational 24X7.

But the problems don’t stop there. Scheduling itself must be done by experienced IT personnel

Fragmentation is one of the most significant

Recent data security and retention regulatory requirements have kept healthcare IT staff busy for the past few years. With Google, Revolution Health, and Microsoft moving to expand healthcare/medical search facilities, SOA initiatives related to information sharing and accessibility are being added to the never shrinking To-Do list of those same IT departments. The future of healthcare is demanding that while employees may or may not be working around the clock, information certainly will have to be.

With new technology comes a new competitive landscape, molded around information management. This new market requires reliable infrastructures on which to build patient or B2B portals. IT is playing an increasingly more vital role in the success of healthcare and life sciences organizations. The race is on.

Just like a building requires a solid and stable foundation, so do SOA and modern IT initiatives. Just keeping the PCs and Servers running can no longer be the primary responsibility. IT needs to minimize or eliminate the time spent on maintenance operations. That

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A SAN still consists of disk drives. Fragmentation is still very much a performance-crippling problem on those drives, and just because it got moved off the network does not mean that it isn

Slow and laggy computers have always been a major concern among computer users. Computers have become an integral part of modern society. They have found their way into our homes, schools and work places and have positioned themselves as necessities in our lives. As such, it has become increasingly ideal to posses a stable computer that runs well. Computers that process data slowly can be an enormous hindrance in our daily lives. If you are disappointed with your computer