13 substantial Windows performance problems that can cause the most frustration and chew up valuable IT 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 Windows performance issues. [...]
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 [...]
Stop The Frustration! 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, [...]
The Application Performance Buck Stops With IT You might be responsible for a busy SQL server, for example, or a Web Server or perhaps a busy file and print server, the Finance Department’s systems, documentation management, CRM, BI, or something else entirely. Now, think about [...]
First, let me explain exactly what the I/O Blender Effect is, and why it causes a problem in virtualized environments such as those from VMware or Microsoft’s Hyper-V. This is typically what storage I/O traffic would look like when everything is working well. You have [...]
SQL Optimization: How to Achieve 2X Faster MS-SQL Applications By following the best practices outlined here for SQL optimization, we can virtually guarantee a 2X or faster boost in your MS-SQL performance with DymaxIO*, our I/O optimization software. The secret sauce to 2X faster SQL [...]
Breathtaking Performance Improvements 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]