Burbank, Calif.,-based Diskeeper was first established in 1981, before most of the current generation of IT professionals began their careers. Its founder and CEO Craig Jensen started his career as a software engineer back in the 1960s and started Diskeeper to solve some of the problems he had seen working with mainframe systems.
Then Jensen came upon a problem that plagued mainframe systems using Open VMS platforms. “Back in the ’80s you had mainframes [and] dumb terminals, and everything was kept on the mainframes. And mainframes had problems about how [they] stored data,” says Michael Materie, director of product management at Diskeeper (www.diskeeper.com).
Jensen figured out that by defragmenting the data on tape drives, data access became much faster, and he designed the now venerable Diskeeper, a software utility that automatically defragments disks without having to take systems offline while doing so. Diskeeper was such an immediate success that Jensen changed the name of the company from Executive Software to Diskeeper in 1986. Diskeeper the company has sold more than 35 million copies of its namesake software to date.
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