Finance Company Deploys V-locity I/O Reduction Software for Blazing Fast VDI
When the New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority decided to better support their users by moving away from using physical PCs and migrating to a virtual desktop infrastructure, the challenge was to ensure the fastest possible user experience from their Horizon View VDI implementation. “Anytime an organization starts talking about VDI, [...]
Industry-first FAL Remediation and Improved Performance for MEDITECH
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 not be completed due to [...]
When It Really NEEDS To Be Deleted
In late May of this year, the European Union formally adopted an updated set of rules about personal data privacy called the General Data Protection Regulation. Condusiv CEO Jim D’Arezzo, speaking with Marketing Technology Insights, said, “Penalties for noncompliance with GDPR are severe. They can be as much as 4% [...]
Cultech Limited Solves ERP and SQL Troubles with Diskeeper 18 Server
Before discovering Diskeeper®, Cultech Limited experienced sluggish ERP and SQL performance, unnecessary downtime, and lost valuable hours each day troubleshooting issues related to Windows write inefficiencies. As an internationally recognized innovator and premium quality manufacturer within the nutritional supplement industry, the usual troubleshooting approaches just weren’t cutting it. “We were [...]
Big Data Boom Brings Promises, Problems
By 2020, an estimated 43 trillion gigabytes of data will have been created—300 times the amount of data in existence fifteen years earlier. The benefits of big data, in virtually every field of endeavor, are enormous. We know more, and in many ways can do more, than ever before. But [...]
Financial Sector Battered by Rising Compliance Costs
Finance is already an outlier in terms of IT costs. The industry devotes 10.5% of total revenue to IT—and on average, each financial industry IT staffer supports only 15.7 users, the fewest of any industry. All over the world, financial services companies are facing skyrocketing compliance costs. Almost half the [...]
Doing it All: The Internet of Things and the Data Tsunami
“If you’re a CIO today, basically you have no choice. You have to do edge computing and cloud computing, and you have to do them within budgets that don’t allow for wholesale hardware replacement…” For a while there, it looked like corporate IT resource planning was going to be easy. [...]
Which Processes are Using All of My System Resources?
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 and/or files are using them. [...]
Fix SQL Server Storage Bottlenecks
No SQL code changes. No Reboots. No Disruption. Simple! Introduction to DymaxIO™ fast data software for SQL Whether running SQL in a physical or virtualized environment, most SQL DBAs would welcome faster storage at a reasonable price. The DymaxIO fast data software (Diskeeper®, SSDkeeper®, and V-locity® are now DymaxIO) from [...]
The Inside Story of Condusiv’s “No Reboot” Quest
In a world of 24/7 uptime and rare reboot windows, one of our biggest challenges as a company has simply been getting our own customers upgraded to the latest version of our I/O reduction software. In the last year, we have done dashboard review sessions with a substantial number of [...]
Condusiv Smashes the I/O Performance Gap with New V-locity 7.0, Diskeeper 18, and SSDkeeper 2.0
Condusiv is pleased to announce the release of V-locity® 7.0, Diskeeper® 18, and SSDkeeper 2.0 that smash the I/O Performance Gap on Windows servers and PCs as growing volumes of data continue to outpace the ability of underlying server and storage hardware to meet performance SLAs on mission critical workloads [...]
MS-SQL Performance Woes Worsen Despite Massive Hardware Investments, Survey Confirms
We just completed our 4th annual I/O Performance Survey from 870 IT Professionals. This is one of the industry’s largest studies of its kind and reveals the latest trends in applications driving performance demands, and how IT Professionals are responding. The survey results consist of 20 detailed questions designed to [...]
Condusiv Addresses Concerns about the Intel CPU Security Flaw
Since the news broke on the Intel CPU security flaw, we have fielded customer concerns about the potential impact to our software and worries of increased contention for CPU cycles if less CPU power1 is available after the patches issued by affected vendors.Let us first simply state there is no overhead [...]
I’m a MEDITECH Hospital with SSDs, Is FAL Growth Still an Issue that Risks Downtime?
Now that many MEDITECH hospitals have gone all-flash for their backend storage, one of the most common questions we field is whether or not there is still downtime risk from the File Attribute List (FAL) growth issue if the data physically lives on solid-state drives (SSDs). The main reason this [...]
New Dashboard Finally Answers the Big Question
After surveying thousands of IT professionals, we’ve found that the vast majority agree that Windows performance degrades over time – they just don’t agree on how much. Unbeknown to most is what the problem actually is, which is I/O degradation as the size of writes and reads become excessively smaller [...]