Recently Discovered SSD Vulnerabilities Could Cripple Global Markets with Data Corruption if Exploited by Attackers
Recently discovered multi-level cell (MLC) solid-state drive (SSD) vulnerabilities by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Seagate, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, reveal the first-ever security weakness of its kind against MLC SSDs that store much of the world’s data. Two different types of malicious attacks are [...]
Telestream Solves MS Exchange Timeouts and Boosts SQL with V-locity I/O Reduction Software
Many first-time users of V-locity® I/O reduction software for virtual servers end up trying the software for more than boosting application performance, but to resolve “shadow IT issues” like timeouts, unexpected crashes, troublesome servers that need to be rebooted regularly, etc. Often times, the underlying issue is in fact I/O [...]
Condusiv Launches SSDkeeper Software that Guarantees “Faster than New” Performance for PCs and Physical Servers and Extends Longevity of SSDs
The company that sold over 100 Million Diskeeper® licenses for hard disk drive systems, now releases SSDkeeper® to keep solid-state drive systems running longer while performing “faster than new.” Every Windows PC or physical server fitted with a solid-state drive (SSD) suffers from very small, fractured writes and reads, which [...]
How Can I/O Reduction Software Guarantee to Solve the Toughest Performance Problems?
The #1 request I’ve been getting from customers is a white board video that succinctly explains the two silent killers of VM performance and how our I/O reduction guarantees to solve performance problems, so applications run perfectly on every Windows server. Expensive backend storage upgrades should ONLY take place when [...]
Overview of How We Derive Storage I/O Time Saved
The latest versions of V-locity® (for virtual servers) and Diskeeper® (for physical servers and PCs) both contain built-in dashboards that show the exact benefit of the product to any one system or group of systems by showing how much and what percentage of read/write traffic is offloaded from storage and [...]
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 [...]
Everything You Need to Know about SSDs and Fragmentation in 5 Minutes
When reading articles, blogs, and forums posted by well-respected (or at least well intentioned people) on the subject of fragmentation and SSDs, many make statements about how (1) SSDs don’t fragment, or (2) there’s no moving parts, so no problem, or (3) an SSD is so fast, why bother? We [...]
First-ever “Time Saved” Dashboard = Holy Grail for ROI
If you’ve ever wondered about the exact business value that Condusiv® I/O reduction software provides to your systems, the latest “time saved” reporting does exactly that. Prior to V-locity® v6.2 for virtual servers and Diskeeper® 16 for physical servers and endpoints, customers would conduct expansive before/after tests to extract the intrinsic performance value, [...]
New! Diskeeper 16 Guarantees “Faster than New” Performance for Physical Servers and PCs
The world’s most popular defragmentation software for physical servers and PCs makes “defrag” a thing of the past and delivers “faster than new” performance by dynamically caching hot reads with idle DRAM. As a result, Diskeeper® 16 guarantees to solve the toughest application performance issues on physical servers like MS-SQL [...]
Teaser: Coming Soon! Intelligent Caching and Fragmentation Prevention = IO Heaven
Sometimes the performance of physical servers, PCs and laptops slows to a crawl. No matter what you do, it takes half an eternity to open some files. It’s tied into the architecture of the Windows operating system. The OS becomes progressively slower the longer it is used and the more [...]
VMware Advises on Defrag
VMware: Defrag or Not? Dave Lewis sent in a question, “There is such a quandary about disk fragmentation in the VMware environment. One says defrag and another says never. Who's right? This has been a hard subject to track and define.” I’m going to debunk “defragging” in a minute, but [...]
Top 5 Questions from V-locity and Diskeeper Customers
After having chatted with 50+ customers the last three months, I’ve heard the same five questions enough times to turn it into a blog entry, and a lot of it has to do with flash: 1. Do Condusiv products still “defrag” like in the old days of Diskeeper? No. Although [...]
V-locity I/O Reduction Software Put to the Test on 3500 VMs
As much as we commonly mention the expected performance gains from V-locity® I/O reduction software is 50-300% faster application performance, that 50-300% can represent quite a range - a correlation relative to how badly systems are taxed by I/O inefficiencies in virtual environments that are subsequently streamlined by V-locity. While [...]
Largest-Ever I/O Performance Study
Over the last year, 2,654 IT Professionals took our industry-first I/O Performance Survey, which makes it the largest I/O performance survey of its kind. The key findings from the survey reveal an I/O performance struggle for virtualized organizations as 77% of all respondents indicated I/O performance issues after virtualizing. The [...]
V-locity 6.0 Solves Death by a Thousand Cuts in Virtual Environments
If you haven’t already heard the pre-announcement buzz on V-locity® 6.0 I/O reduction software that made a splash in the press, it’s being released in a couple weeks. To understand why it’s significant and why it’s an unprecedented 3X FASTER than its predecessor is to understand the biggest factor that [...]