How to Get the Performance of a “Premium” Cloud Instance at Much Lower Cost
The WSJ ran an article last week on the rising costs of cloud computing that said “costs can spiral if they aren't closely managed. There are lots of inefficiencies.” In moving to the Cloud, you need to choose the optimum Cloud instance and “add-ons” that will provide the highest [...]
DymaxIO – The Revolution Continues
A couple of years ago I wrote an article titled “The Revolution of Our Technology”. The point was to not only give people a sense of our history, but also our future. It delved into the fact that we are constantly looking at how to stay ahead of technology so [...]
Do SSDs Degrade Over Time – Part 2
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 an SSD in relation [...]
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 YES. The reason for this degradation is an undesirable SSD [...]
IntelliWrite® – Behind the Magic Curtain
IntelliWrite is one of a suite of technologies that optimize the Windows Storage I/O subsystem so that Applications can get to and from the Storage layer much faster and process a lot more data. Remember when we used to talk about Data Processing? Processing data is WHY you bought your [...]
Increasing VDI Density with V-locity
Many people find themselves in the position of having to quickly increase the number of VDI instances on their existing infrastructure to support remote users. You may be asking yourself the question: How can I do this without having to roll out a bunch of new hardware? The answer is: [...]
Professional Distancing, How To Succeed
In our daily conversations with IT professionals, one recent recurring theme is that many of them are busy setting up their employees to work from home. In addition to “social distancing”, “professional distancing” is becoming the order of the day. Condusiv Technologies went through this evolution back in 2017 when [...]
How To Find Out If Your Servers Have an I/O Performance Problem
IT pros know all too well the pain and frustration due to performance problems such as users getting disconnected and complaining, SQL reports or queries taking forever or timing out, annoyingly slow applications causing users to wait, lose productivity and complain, backups failing to complete in the allotted window or [...]
Myriad of Windows Performance Problems Traced to a Single Source
Believe it or not, 12 substantial Windows performance issues that can cause the most frustration and chew up valuable time can be directly traced to a single source. In this article, we’re going to show you how. First, let’s briefly touch on and describe each issue. 1. Slow Application Performance [...]
I/Os Are Not Created Equal – 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 different folders and placed in different cabinets according to specific [...]
6 Best Practices to Improve SQL Query Performance
MS SQL Server is the world’s leading RDMS and has plentiful 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 been best practices evolved that allow for its best performance. For any company utilizing [...]
Top 10 Webinar Questions – Our Experts Get Technical
As we enter the new year and reflect on the 25 live webinars that we held in 2019, we are thrilled with the level of interaction and thought we’d take a look back at some of the great questions asked during the lively Q&A sessions. Here are the top questions [...]
How To Get The Most Out Of Your Flash Storage Or Move To Cloud
You just went out and upgraded your storage to all-flash. Or, maybe you have moved your systems to the cloud where you can choose the SLA to get the performance you want. We can provide you with a secret weapon that will make you continue to look like a hero [...]
Causes and Solutions for Latency
Sometimes the slowdown of a Windows server occurs because the device or its operating system is outdated. Other times, the slowdown is due to physical constraints on the retrieval, processing, or transmitting of data. There are other causes as we will cover. In any case, the delay between when a [...]
What Condusiv’s Diskeeper Does for Me
I'm a person who uses what he has. For example, my friend Roger purchased a fancy new keyboard, but only uses it on "special occasions" because he wants to keep the hardware in pristine condition. That isn't me--my stuff wears out because I rely on it and use it continuously. [...]