A long time ago in a server room far, far away there was the weekend effort of IT to “backup, reformat, restore”. Alternatively one could “squeeze” all the data to the front of the disk/volume after taking the volume offline and running special utilities. This was how fragmentation used to be solved. Eventually defragmentation evolved into online Manual and eventually Scheduled tasks. That lasted for years until it evolved again to Automatic and then invisible Real Time defragmentation, for which Diskeeper 2007 through 2009 stand alone. But it is time to evolve once again, stay tuned for the sequel…