Condusiv^™ Technologies, formerly Diskeeper Corporation, the leader in high-performance software optimizing technology, people and businesses, today announced that its Diskeeper 12 was named as a Gold medal winner of the “2012 Editors’ Best Awards” in the Best System Utility category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro.

The 2012 Editors’ Best Awards are based on a product’s strategic importance to market, its competitive advantages, and its value to customers.

“For our 2012 Editors’ Best Awards, we’ve leveraged the industry expertise of our editors and authors to bring additional recognition to great products in today’s market,” said Jason Bovberg, senior editor, Windows IT Pro. “We're proud to now share this invaluable information with our Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Pro communities. The 2012 winners should be extremely proud of this recognition from our editorial experts.”

Diskeeper 12, Condusiv’s application accelerator and I/O optimizer, maximizes I/O performance for server and desktop systems by restructuring the way data gets written to disk. Independent IT testing shows up to 98% fewer physical I/O requests on servers, data throughput up to 5X faster on workstations, server throughput increased 130%, idle CPU time increased 100% with Diskeeper 12 vs. Microsoft Windows built-in utility for Windows 7 and Server 2012.

About Condusiv: Condusiv Technologies creates high-performance software that optimizes and maintains application performance and efficiency, extends equipment longevity to make technology, people and businesses more productive. From the moment Condusiv software is installed on physical or virtual disks, our technology ensures data performance is automatically optimized. Requiring zero overhead, our energy-efficient, “Set-It-and-Forget-It” solutions are used by over 90% of the Fortune 1000 and almost three-quarters of The Forbes Global 100. Our customers include literally thousands of global enterprises, government agencies, independent software vendors (ISVs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and home users worldwide. With over 30 years of cutting-edge product development, we lead the market in data storage innovation, delivering thought-leading technology that improves your business and user experience. Condusiv solutions help technology function at peak levels, increasing the productivity of people and business.

For more information visit us at www.condusiv.com

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