Tips for Optimized Microsoft SQL Server Performance MS SQL Server is a very popular RDMS (relational database management system) with many benefits and features that empower its efficient operation. As with any such robust platform, however—especially one which has matured as SQL Server has—there have [...]
Lawnswood School is one of the top performing educational institutions in the UK. Their IT environment supports a workload that is split between approximately 1200 students and 200 staff. With 1400 people and various programs and files to support, they were in search of something [...]
When the New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority decided to better support their users by moving away from using physical PCs and migrating to a virtual desktop infrastructure, the challenge was to ensure the fastest possible user experience from their Horizon View VDI implementation. “Anytime an [...]
In late May of this year, the European Union formally adopted an updated set of rules about personal data privacy called the General Data Protection Regulation. Condusiv CEO Jim D’Arezzo, speaking with Marketing Technology Insights, said, “Penalties for noncompliance with GDPR are severe. They can [...]
By 2020, an estimated 43 trillion gigabytes of data will have been created—300 times the amount of data in existence fifteen years earlier. The benefits of big data, in virtually every field of endeavor, are enormous. We know more, and in many ways can do [...]
Finance is already an outlier in terms of IT costs. The industry devotes 10.5% of total revenue to IT—and on average, each financial industry IT staffer supports only 15.7 users, the fewest of any industry. All over the world, financial services companies are facing skyrocketing [...]
“If you’re a CIO today, basically you have no choice. You have to do edge computing and cloud computing, and you have to do them within budgets that don’t allow for wholesale hardware replacement…” For a while there, it looked like corporate IT resource planning [...]
CHRISTUS Health cancelled a $2 Million order. Just before they pulled the trigger on a $2 Million storage purchase to improve the performance of their electronic health records application (MEDITECH®), they evaluated V-locity® I/O reduction software. We actually heard the story first hand from the hardware [...]
Recently, there’s been a lot of talk about built-in defragging systems. Is Windows®7 the best option? In the latest issue of Processor Magazine, experts weigh in, making the case for Diskeeper’s optimization in the enterprise. Read the whole article here: https://www.processor.com/articles//P3402/11p02/11p02.pdf?guid
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