Windows is still Windows Whether in the Cloud, on Hyperconverged or All-flash
Let me start by stating two facts – facts that I will substantiate if you continue to the end. Fact #1: Windows suffers from severe write inefficiencies that dampen overall performance. The holy grail question as to how severe is answered below. Fact #2: Windows is still Windows whether running [...]
How to Recover Lost or Deleted Files BEFORE Resorting to Outsourced Data Recovery
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. >There is NO valid backup or snapshot to recover the [...]
Help! I hit “Save” instead of “Save As”!!
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 some changes to a Word [...]
Undelete Can Do That Too?
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 protection, so they don’t have [...]
Thinking Outside the Box – How to Dramatically Improve SQL Performance, Part 1
If you are reading this article, then most likely you are about to evaluate DymaxIO™ to improve SQL Performance on a SQL Server (or already have our software installed on a few servers) and have some questions about why it is a best practice recommendation to place a memory limit [...]
A Simple Trick on Maintaining Your Storage Performance – Maintain Your Free Space
In the last couple of months, I was approached by three different companies that were frantic because they were experiencing an EXTREME fragmentation issue. Not just files that were in hundreds or thousands of fragments, but in millions! Of course, this was causing performance issues but even worse, the fragmentation [...]
Zero-Day-Deletes and Undelete
Your organization probably relies on backups and/or snapshots as a part of your data protection and disaster recovery plan. And correctly so! But have you ever had to deal with a support call where a user created a file and then accidentally deleted it after the last backup or snapshot [...]
How to Get the Performance of a “Premium” Cloud Instance at Much Lower Cost
The WSJ ran an article recently on cloud cost inefficiencies 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 IOPS and data transfer [...]
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 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 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 [...]
How to Recover Deleted Files from Network Shares
You may have discovered—and too late—that while you can recover some deleted files from the Windows Recycle Bin on local machines, you cannot recover deleted files (accidentally or otherwise) from network drive shared folders. If you delete a file from a network share, it is gone. If you look in [...]
Increasing VDI Density with V-locity or new DymaxIO
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 [...]