Diskeeper Corporation today announced the forthcoming release of the first disk I/O optimization solution for SAN-attached systems. This new product is the culmination of requests from enterprise customers, technical engagements with leading Storage Area Network (SAN) vendors, and internal company research projects.

Diskeeper Corporation products V-locity® virtual platform disk optimizer and the company's Diskeeper® performance software already have broad adoption on SAN-attached Windows operating systems.

"SAN administrators look to Diskeeper and V-locity to ensure that Windows clients are operating at peak disk I/O efficiency," notes Diskeeper Product Manager Michael Materie. "By eliminating logical fragmentation, via proactive prevention and intelligent defragmentation, SAN-attached Windows systems generate only the absolute minimum of I/O needed, maximizing the effectiveness of their existing storage infrastructure. With these I/O efficiencies, IT is able to save on additional disk drive provisioning costs, as well as the energy and space costs associated with adding more spindles."

Automatically eliminating file fragmentation on Windows® direct attached storage drives, both physical and virtual, is well known as vital to maximize performance, reliability, system longevity and energy savings. However, its use on SAN systems requires special configurations (e.g. Thin Provisioning) that today, require manual IT oversight.

The new SAN-targeted solution will automate many of the manual requirements necessary today, as well as offering new advanced solutions to assist with space reclamation and provisioning in SAN LUNs. While the core SAN optimization solution will be SAN vendor agnostic, Diskeeper Corporation technology alliances with key SAN vendors will offer advanced functionality and performance.