G lendale, CA. -- December 8, 1997: Windows NT network utilities leader Executive Software, the provider of the defragmentation technology in Windows NT 5.0, announced that U-Haul International has selected its Diskeeper disk defragmenter to increase performance at 1,500 U-Haul retail stores and 84 district offices nation-wide. Mike O'Loughlin, Manager of Field Computer Support for U-Haul International, said: "We needed a solution -- our disks were becoming highly fragmented and it was slowing down system performance, especially with our database and inventory control programs. We tested Diskeeper and decided to deploy it on all of our Windows NT systems across the U.S. and Canada."

G eorge Goodrich, Diskeeper Product Manager, said: "We are pleased to work with U-Haul to restore and maintain peak performance for their Windows NT machines. With Diskeeper 3.0's exclusive directory defragmentation feature and U-Haul's full deployment of Diskeeper nation-wide, they can expect to realize a new level of automation efficiency and speed of service to their customers."

D isk fragmentation is a feature of advanced operating systems that breaks up files and scatters them into pieces around the disk. While this speeds the storage of files, it results in slower file access times. Diskeeper is a "Set It and Forget It" solution that consolidates fragmented files and free space transparently in the background for faster file access.

U -Haul International is the world's largest truck and trailer rental company and is the undisputed choice among do-it-yourself movers. The 52-year-old industry leader has the largest rental fleet in the world, including more than 87,000 trucks and 84,000 trailers. Diskeeper will be deployed at 1,500 U-Haul retail stores running Point-of-Sale systems, as well as 84 district offices (known as U-Haul Marketing Companies) running accounting, database, and inventory control applications, and at the Corporate Headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona.

F or over a decade, Executive Software's Diskeeper products have set the standard in network defragmentation and increased system performance for enterprise-class systems. In fact, in the Microsoft Press book "Running Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0", Diskeeper is described as "The most commonly used disk defragmentation program for Windows NT".

D iskeeper for Windows NT is the first defragmenter with network controls that allows administrators to schedule, monitor and launch defragmentation across a network. These features save network administrators from having to run around to each desktop to defragment disks or grant administrative privileges to users.

F ounded in 1981, Executive Software is the world leader in defragmentation software for Windows NT and OpenVMS computer systems. Its products have increased system performance in enterprise-class networks for the last twelve years, beginning with the release of Diskeeper for Digital Equipment Corp's VMS operating system -- an enterprise system with which Windows NT has shared development roots.

E xecutive Software recently announced that Microsoft Corporation will be including a manual version of Diskeeper in the Windows NT 5.0 operating system. Diskeeper is certified as Microsoft BackOffice compatible and it speeds performance for the entire family of Microsoft BackOffice server products.

D iskeeper has been featured on the Windows Magazine 1997 Recommended List for the last ten months, and is a winner of the "Best of LAN Times" magazine award. Suggested retail prices are $75.00 for Diskeeper for Windows NT Workstation and $399.00 for Diskeeper for Windows NT Server. Available platforms include Intel and Alpha.