Random I/O versus Sequential I/O To demonstrate the performance difference of I/O patterns, put yourself in a Veterinarian’s office where all the data is still stored on paper in file cabinets. For a single animal (billing, payments, medication, visits, procedures…), it is all stored in [...]
Caching technology has been around for quite some time, so why is Condusiv’s patented IntelliMemory® caching so unique that it outperforms other caching technology and has been licensed by other top OEM PC and Storage vendors? There are a few innovations that make it stand [...]
Emergency Undelete to the rescue! Here’s a nightmare scenario…a user accidentally deletes irreplaceable or valued files from a network share, and there is no way to recover the data because: >The file was created or modified then deleted AFTER the last valid backup/snapshot was taken. [...]
Need to get back to a previous Microsoft Office, CAD, Photoshop, or other file version before the changes you just made? Undelete® has you covered with its file Versioning feature. True Story - IT Manager Saves Panicked CEO Have you or your users ever made [...]
Can Undelete® really securely delete files and ensure data you want gone is unrecoverable? Yes. You may have already heard countless customers tout the file recovery features of Condusiv’s Undelete and how IT Pros use it as a recycle bin on file servers for real-time [...]
In Part 1, I explained how SSDs can degrade over time and the reason for it was associated with an undesirable SSD phenomenon called the Write Amplification Factor (WAF). This is a numerical value that indicates the actual amount of data that was written to [...]
Do SSDs Degrade Over Time? You bought SSDs to increase your system performance, but you noticed that the performance has degraded since you first bought them. Can SSD performance degrade over time and is there a way to prevent this? The answer is YES and [...]
You hope that your systems never get attacked by Ransomware, but in case you do, you want to be prepared. One of the best ways to recover from such a malicious attack is to ensure you keep good and recent backups of your systems. But [...]
When someone mentions heavy fragmentation on a Windows NTFS Volume, the first thing that usually comes to mind is performance degradation. While performance degradation is certainly bad, what’s worse is application failure when the application gets this error. Windows Error - "The requested operation could [...]
Over time as more files and applications are added to your system, you notice that performance has degraded, and you want to find out what is causing it. A good starting point is to see how the system resources are being used and which processes [...]