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 [...]
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 [...]
Condusiv’s DymaxIO Technology Certified as Citrix Ready
We are delighted to report that Condusiv’s DymaxIO™ fast data performance 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. DymaxIO, our innovative and dynamic alternative to costly hardware overhauls, [...]
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 [...]
What Condusiv’s Diskeeper Does for Me
Guest article on Diskeeper for Windows by Timothy Warner, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Cloud and Datacenter Management who is based in Nashville, TN. His professional specialties include Microsoft Azure, cross-platform PowerShell, and all things Windows Server-related. This article has been updated to indicate that Diskeeper is now new [...]
How to make NVMe flash storage even faster
This is a blog to complement a video where I demonstrated how to use the intelligent RAM caching technology found in the Condusiv's software to improve the performance that a computer can get from NVMe flash storage. You can view this video here: A question arose from a couple of [...]
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?
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 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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]