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Kontiki Delivery Management System

Kontiki's DMS (Delivery Management System), which uses grid technology for efficient content delivery, adds servers to the grid network with its Grid Server software. Grid Delivery architecture makes it possible to serve content simultaneously and securely to Delivery Managers located on Apple Macintosh or Microsoft Windows computers from one or more servers using XML. The servers feature high availability with support for load balancing and failover. Starts at $240,000. Kontiki, (408) 730-3000. www.kontiki.com

Executive Software Diskeeper 7.0

Executive Software is releasing a second edition of Diskeeper 7.0, with improvements to the product's defragging capabilities and disk processing designed to save time and disk space. Added features include Maximum Disk Performance, which promises to optimize defragging and free-space utilization through better scheduling. The Improved Free Space feature is said to improve consolidation of free space by increasing disk processing on NTFS during scheduled defragging. The company has also added a quick cleanup feature, New Quick Defragmentation. Starts at $49.95 per workstation, $259.95 for the server. Diskeeper 7.0 users upgrade free. Executive Software, (800) 829-6468, (818) 771-1600. www.execsoft.com