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Diskeeper Corporation is the name of a software company based in Burbank, California, founded in 1981. Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County California, United States. [1] The company's current name is derived from its flagship product, Diskeeper, a file system defragmentation software package for Microsoft Windows and VAX. Diskeeper, often abbreviated In Computing, a file system (often also written as filesystem) is a method for storing and organizing Computer files and the data they contain to make Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Name "VAX" was originally an Acronym for V irtual A ddress e' X' tension, both because the VAX was seen as a 32-bit The company was formerly known as Executive Software International, Inc. , and was founded on July 22, 1981 in Burbank, California by Craig Jensen. Events 1099 - First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County California, United States.

The company has placed on the Inc 500 list of fastest growing companies in multiple years. [2] It was listed in Software Magazine's Top 100 Independent Software Companies in the World. Strategic partners include Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Microsoft Corp.

Its competitors in the defragmentation software market include Raxco Software, O&O Software, Symantec (via Speed Disk in its Norton Utilities and Norton Systemworks product families). Raxco Software is a Maryland based developer of Windows and OpenVMS softwarerecognized foremost for its defragmentation products chiefly PerfectDisk Symantec Corporation, founded in 1982 is an International Corporation which sells Computer Software, particularly in the realms of security The Norton Utilities releases were collections of Software utilities The Norton Utilities releases were collections of Software utilities

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Products

The company sells and supports three software products. Diskeeper is a file system defragmentation program for Microsoft Windows systems, and the company's namesake. Diskeeper, often abbreviated Sitekeeper aims at simplifying systems management for IT professionals. Systems management refers to enterprise-wide administration of distributed computer systems. Information technology ( IT) as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA is "the study design development implementation support Undelete offers protection from and recovery of accidentally deleted files.

Company history

The company was founded to serve open VMS platforms. Because the product allowed companies to defragment without shutting their systems down, its original customer base was Fortune 500, Fortune 1000, government agencies, air traffic control, NASA and others with mission critical systems or systems that needed to be running 24/7. In the early 1990s, Diskeeper was the best-selling third party software product for Digital Equipment Corporation business computers. The company, then named Executive Software, placed on Software magazine’s list of the Top 100 Independent Software Companies. It also placed on the Inc 500 Fastest Growing Companies four years in a row.

In 1995 they were asked by Microsoft to develop products for their Windows NT system before it was released. One of Microsoft's original source code licensees, they broke into the Windows market with the resulting defrag product for Windows NT. [3]

Founder

While studying electrical engineering at Northwestern University in 1968, Craig Jensen took a night job as a computer operator to learn the computer. He went on to become a developer of advanced operating systems for early technology pioneer Applied Data Research, and in 1974 moved to Data General Corporation. He founded Executive Software in 1981 "with an early personal computer and a box of file folders in his kitchen in Hollywood".

He is the author of "The Craft of Computer Programming". (New York: Warner Books, 1985)

Scientology and Diskeeper

The corporation's CEO, Craig Jensen, is a member of the Church of Scientology and has stated that his employees are schooled in the principles of Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard. The Church of Scientology is the largest organization devoted to the practice and the promotion of the Scientology belief system. Scientology is a body of beliefs and related practices initially created by American Science fiction author L Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13 1911 &ndash January 24 1986 was a fiction writer who devised a self-help technique called Dianetics and philosophy known as Scientology [4], saying "I attribute [our] success directly to the management technology developed by L. Ron Hubbard. Simply put, I couldn't have done it without his help. " [5] In 1991, Executive Software denied Ciba-Geigy technical support for the VAX version of Diskeeper after learning that Ciba-Geigy makes Ritalin, a drug opposed by scientologists. Novartis International AG is a multinational Pharmaceutical company based in Basel Switzerland that manufactures drugs such as Clozapine [6] (see also Scientology and psychiatry). Scientology has come into conflict with Psychiatry since the foundation of Scientology in 1952

In 2000, the inclusion of the functionality of the Home version of Diskeeper in Microsoft Windows 2000's Disk Defragmenter was the subject of an investigation by the German Federal Office of Security in Information Technology (BSI), which looked into whether Diskeeper poses a security threat to users by spying on users. Windows 2000 (also referred to as Win2K) is a preemptive, interruptible graphical and business-oriented Operating system designed to work with The Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (abbreviated BSI - in English Federal Office for Information Security) is the German government [7]. In Germany the law bars state and federal governments from doing business with a member of the Church of Scientology, a government policy that has been criticized by the US State Department in 1999 and in a 1998 UN Report as discriminatory and government-condoned harassment. [4] A Microsoft spokesman stated that Microsoft had extensively tested Diskeeper for security breaches and found the tool had no ability to store and transmit data on users, and there was no data transfer involved in its processes. [4]

References

  1. ^ CEO Craig Jensen's web site
  2. ^ Inc 500, Inc Magazine
  3. ^ The Wall Street Transcript, Kathy Wattman
  4. ^ a b c Wired article: Scientology in the Machine
  5. ^ Prosperity Magazine, Craig Jensen
  6. ^ Diskeeper User Stunned by Denial of Tech Support. holysmoke. org (2000-08-04). 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Events 70 - The Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
  7. ^ Catholics distrust Scientology software

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