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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]