Apple & Eve Reduces Data Storage Fees With Raxco Software

Market Wire, June, 2006

Raxco Software, the leader in disk defragmentation software, announced today that juice company Apple & Eve LLC has implemented PerfectDisk® to help keep workstation and server performance high and significantly reduce offsite data storage fees.

The IT staff at Apple & Eve stores all of its backup data offsite, paying a monthly fee for use of a remote facility. In addition to maintaining the company's workstations and on-site servers, the IT staff also is responsible for consistently maintaining the offsite server. Because of this added layer of complexity, the company sought an innovative way to minimize storage costs.

After evaluating several defragmentation solutions, Apple & Eve chose PerfectDisk for its complete approach to file defragmentation, including the ability to schedule sessions, consolidate free-space and defragment all of its files in a single pass. After installing PerfectDisk on its network, the company found that its offsite storage was reduced from 100 GB to 60 GB in one use, translating to an immediate reduction in offsite storage fees of approximately $1,000 a month.

"Prior to installing PerfectDisk, we migrated older emails to an offsite server to minimize the size of the database on our email servers. PerfectDisk allows us to maintain our offsite data storage with minimal intervention thanks to its ability to schedule defragmentation sessions," said Bob McCambridge, Senior IT Manager at Apple & Eve. "Now we can run a PerfectDisk for Exchange defragmentation session to minimize the white space [free-space] prior to our monthly offsite storage assessment and save the company thousands of dollars annually, all thanks to PerfectDisk. In addition, our employees can see an improvement in email access and retrieve important data faster than before since our workstations and onsite servers are all working optimally."

"Apple & Eve exemplifies the importance of properly defragmenting both onsite and offsite workstations and servers," said Joe Abusamra, vice president of operations at Raxco Software. "As its experience shows, PerfectDisk's combination of free space consolidation and file defragmentation creates significant cost savings in data storage and critical improvements in employee production rates. We are pleased that our solution has delivered such immediate and ongoing value to Apple & Eve."

About Apple & Eve

Apple & Eve is one of the largest independently owned juice companies in the U.S., with total sales exceeding $160 million. Founded in 1975 by Gordon Crane, and his brothers Cary and Alan, and headquartered in Port Washington, NY, the company is known for its great tasting, innovative, and healthy juice products. Apple & Eve markets a complete line of juices, including Apple & Eve 100% pure juices and Northland cranberry juice blends. Apple & Eve also markets the Sesame Street line of juices for children, the Seneca brand, and Apple & Eve Organics. Apple & Eve natural products are found in supermarkets, mass merchants, warehouse clubs, drug stores, health food stores and convenience stores across the country.

About Raxco Software

Raxco Software has been helping large enterprises, small businesses, and consumers with their computer resource management needs for more than twenty-five years. Its PerfectDisk is Windows Server(TM) 2003- and Windows® 2000-certified, and optimized for Windows XP. The PerfectDisk line has a long award-winning history, most notably its perfect 5-star review from CNET Download, winner of the Windows IT Pro 2005 Readers' Choice Awards for Defragmentation Utility and Storage Management Tool, and Redmond Magazine's Best of the Best Award for 2005, and having won PC Magazine's Editors Choice award for the past two years. In addition to its PerfectDisk line, Raxco also produces PC optimization software, including system recovery and disk repair products for Windows operating systems and HP's OpenVMS operating system. Raxco Software can be found on the Web at www.raxco.com .

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