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 I/O 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 [...]
Myriad of Windows Performance Problems Traced to a Single Source
Believe it or not, 12 substantial Windows performance problems 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 a very popular 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, including improving SQL query performance [...]
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 [...]
Microsoft SQL Team Puts Condusiv to the Test
Condusiv continues its long-standing 20+ year relationship with Microsoft® as a Gold Partner and provider of technologies to Microsoft over the years. In a testament to our technology quality and stability, Condusiv® became the first software vendor awarded the stringent certification of MS-SQL Server I/O Reliability, joining a very short [...]
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. [...]
Ransomware Protection Tips
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 even with that, you can [...]
Condusiv’s V-locity Technology Was Recently Certified as Citrix Ready
We are proud to announce that Condusiv’s V-locity® I/O reduction software has been certified as Citrix Ready®. The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third-party solutions that enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix Systems, Inc. V-locity, our innovative and dynamic alternative to costly hardware overhauls, has completed [...]
Case Study: Non-Profit Eliminates Frustrating Help Desk calls, Boosts Performance and Extends Useful Hardware Lifecycle
When PathPoint was faced with user complaints and productivity issues related to slow performance, the non-profit organization turned to Condusiv’s I/O reduction software to not only optimize their physical and virtual infrastructure but to extend their hardware lifecycles, as well. As technology became more relevant to PathPoint’s growing organization and [...]
Cost-Effective Solutions for Healthcare IT Deficiencies
Managing healthcare these days is as much about managing data as it is about managing patients themselves. The tsunami of data washing over the healthcare industry is a result of technological advancements and regulatory requirements coming together in a perfect storm. But when it comes to saving lives, the healthcare [...]
Do I Really Need V-locity on All VMs?
V-locity® customers may wonder, “How many VMs do I need to install V-locity on for optimal results? What kind of benefits will I see with V-locity on one or two VMs versus all the VMs on a host?” As a refresher… It is true that V-locity will likely provide significant benefit [...]