industry computer software founded glendale california united states march 1 1981 1981 03 01 founder craig jensen headquarters 7590 n. glenoaks blvd burbank california united states 1 area served worldwide products diskeeper v locity undelete hyperfast hyperboot invisitasking intelliwrite expresscache i faast website www.condusiv.com condusiv technologies is a software company based in burbank california . the company was formerly known as diskeeper corporation a name derived from its flagship product diskeeper a file system defragmentation software package for microsoft windows and openvms . before adopting the diskeeper name the company was known as executive software international inc. contents 1 products 2 company history 2.1 founder 2.2 controversy 3 references 4 further reading 5 external links products edit condusiv technologies sells and supports a number of software products . diskeeper a tool for reducing file fragmentation ; v locity virtual machine a platform disk optimizer for virtual server ; undelete which offers protection from and recovery of accidentally deleted files . condusiv sells its products to oems original equipment manufacturers including sandisk samsung and lg . condusiv oem products include expresscache which exploits a small density ssd as a cache for a larger capacity hdd thus improving boot times and applications launch . the company also has several technologies such as hyperfast a solid state drive optimizer hyperboot a boot time optimization technology ; and invisitasking which enables any process to run invisibly in the background . another technology introduced by the company in 2009 is intelliwrite an advanced file system driver designed to leverage windows file system best fit file write design in order to write a file in a non fragmented state . intelliwrite is designed to prevent most fragmentation before it happens in windows computer systems allowing for better file write performance plus compatibility and interoperability with other storage management products . company history edit old logo it was founded on july 22 1981 by craig jensen . 2 the company was initially created to serve vax vms platforms . because the product allowed companies to defragment without shutting their systems down its original customer base was fortune 500 and fortune 1000 companies government agencies air traffic control nasa and others with mission critical systems or systems that needed to be running 24 7 . in the early 1990s diskeeper was the best selling third party software product for digital equipment corporation business computers . citation needed the company then named executive software placed on software magazine s list of the top 100 independent software companies . citation needed in 1995 the company was asked by microsoft to develop products for its windows nt system before it was released . one of microsoft s original source code licensees the company broke into the windows market with the resulting defrag product for windows nt . 3 jerry baldwin was appointed ceo in september 2011 and craig jensen passed his managerial and day to day involvement with the company on to baldwin . 4 baldwin renamed the company to condusiv technologies and completely restructured and re focused the company on cloud virtualization and optimization . the tagline think faster is now the company motto . founder edit while studying electrical engineering at northwestern university in 1968 craig jensen took a night job as a computer operator to learn about computers . he went on to develop advanced operating systems for early technology pioneer applied data research and in 1974 moved to data general corporation . he founded executive software international in 1981 he says with an early personal computer and a box of file folders in his kitchen in hollywood . mr. jensen stepped down as ceo in 2009 . he is the author of the craft of computer programming new york warner books 1985 isbn 978 0 446 38147 5 . craig jensen is a member of the church of scientology and a member of the world institute of scientology enterprises wise an international membership organization whose members use the management technology of l. ron hubbard founder of the church of scientology . he has stated that his employees are schooled in hubbard s management technology 5 with courses that include effective leadership executives and ethics executive basics and management by statistics . 6 however with the change in ceo to jerry baldwin the hubbard management technology is no longer the standard at the company . citation needed with the departure of baldwin in 2014 the company returned to using the hubbard management technology as its mantra under craig jensen who returned as ceo . controversy edit in 2000 the inclusion of the functionality of the home version of diskeeper in microsoft windows 2000 s disk defragmenter was the subject of an investigation by the german federal office of security in information technology bsi which looked into whether diskeeper poses a security threat to users by spying on users . 7 in germany the law bars state and federal governments from doing business with a member of the church of scientology a government policy that has been criticized by the us state department in 1999 and in a 1998 un report as discriminatory and government condoned harassment . 5 a microsoft spokesman stated that microsoft had extensively tested diskeeper for security breaches and found the tool had no ability to store and transmit data on users and there was no data transfer involved in its processes 5 but bowed to pressure allowing users the option to remove it . 8 on november 5 2008 diskeeper s former cio alexander godelman and automation planning officer marc le shay jointly filed suit in los angeles superior court for improper dismissal . in the complaint they allege that the company required training in hubbard management courses which are based on the management technology of l. ron hubbard founder of scientology as a condition of employment and that failure to comply was cause for their dismissal . the plaintiffs cited this as a violation of the california fair employment and housing act and requested an injunction against the delivery of the courses at diskeeper . 9 on january 27 2009 diskeeper filed a motion to strike the proposed injunction citing without conceding that hubbard management technology is religious in nature legal precedence of religious based practices in business being protected by the first amendment . 10 on february 18 2009 the motion to strike was granted and the proposed injunction removed from the case . on june 24 2009 the case was dismissed in its entirety . 10 in 1991 the company back then executive software denied ciba geigy technical support for the vax version of diskeeper after learning that ciba geigy makes ritalin a drug opposed by scientologists 11 see also scientology and psychiatry . references edit condusiv contact information retrieved 2010 09 03 ceo craig jensen s web site the wall street transcript kathy wattman condusiv press release diskeeper corporation announces new name a b c yackley ayla jean 2000 03 19 . scientology in the machine . wired . retrieved 2008 12 07 . prosperity magazine craig jensen catholics distrust scientology software scientologist software ceo lashes out against germany . reuters . cnn . 2000 11 06 . retrieved 2008 12 07 . http realitybasedcommunity.net archive 2008 12 former cio sues.php a b case number bc374449 . kelly nancy 4 february 1991 . diskeeper user stunned by denial of tech support . digital news . retrieved 24 may 2011 . further reading edit how to defragment your disk drive volumes in windows xp . microsoft support . microsoft corporation . retrieved 11 march 2012 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title condusiv technologies & oldid 661911338 categories software companies based in californiacompanies established 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