It was developed by Executive Software International, Inc., which later changed its name to Diskeeper Corporation, and is now called Condusiv Technologies.

All of Diskeeper's features and functionality are now included in Condusiv's data performance software DymaxIO.

[3] Originally, Diskeeper was developed for the VAX series of minicomputers[4] and later for Microsoft Windows.

Diskeeper 2008 Professional introduced a Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) compatibility mode, which defragments on a unit of 16 KB, so that VSS file history won't explode, invalidating cached old versions of the files.

[7] Another feature in Diskeeper is I-FAAST, or Intelligent File Access Acceleration Sequencing Technology.