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TimeAcct Information Systems Announces Disk Triage

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, October 23, 2001 -- TimeAcct Information Systems, a specialist in disk sizing and analysis utilities, today announced the release of Disk Triage 6.0, the long-awaited upgrade to its popular TreeDirSizer utility. Disk Triage 6.0 features advanced disk space analysis capabilities that ensures a company always has a complete view of their entire corporate network storage environment, thereby reducing the possibility of network downtime and service degradation.

As a specialized utility for network administrators in medium to large-sized organizations, or individuals within subsets of such organizations, Disk Triage provides a quick and easy way to monitor disk space usage across an entire network (LAN or WAN). This ensures that valuable time is not wasted gathering data from each file or sub-directory, and it ensures that a network administrator can identify problems before they escalate. These problems could include network downtime and service degradation, which according to Infonetics Research, costs the average 1,000-person company an estimated $32.7 million per year in lost productivity and opportunity revenue.

"It's unbelievable. As computer users, we have set high standards for complex business software over the past 15 years. However, before now, there was no tool that could perform the most fundamental service for large-scale computer networks -- the ability to gain a complete understanding of the physical storage of information,” says Kurt Dicus, CEO and President of Adinfonitum. “Every time I need to analyze a computer problem, the first tool I turn to is Disk Triage. Within seconds, I can see the where all the data lives."

"With the advent of LAN based RAID Arrays in the terabytes and home PCs shipping with hard drives that are measured in the tens of gigabytes, it has never been more important to know not only how much space is being used, but where it is being used, and what it is made up of," says G. Bradley MacDonald, President, TimeAcct Information Systems. "With Disk Triage, a company can catch problems before they start, thereby helping prevent network downtime which has the potential to save a company millions."

Disk Triage, which retails for Us$99.95, uses a wide variety of analysis tools, including graphs, reports, and a powerful tree view, to help interpret the gathered disk allocation and file usage data. It can also graphically show data breakdowns by file size, attribute, dates (create/modify/access), time, extension, owner, and registered file types. Disk Triage is the only utility to provide this amount of detailed information about the files that make up a network.