With all the myriad of possible hardware solutions to storage I/O performance issues, the question that people are starting to ask is something like: If I just buy newer, faster Storage, won’t that fix my application performance problem? The short answer is: Maybe [...]
Disk Latency, Heavy Workloads, Poor Response Time - Oh My I am an IT engineer and I am going to discuss improving application performance and response times by decreasing disk latency. I hope you enjoy and feel free to comment. You might be responsible for [...]
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 [...]
The Performance Challenges Community Medical Center (CMC) had one initial requirement – find a FAL remediation solution for their MEDITECH electronic health record (EHR) application to maintain 24/7 availability and avoid downtime. What surprised them the most was the extent of the performance boost from [...]
DymaxIO™ customers may wonder, “How many VMs do I need to install DymaxIO on for optimal results? What kind of benefits will I see with DymaxIO on one or two VMs versus all the VMs on a host?” As a refresher… It is true that [...]
It's not your hardware's fault that your application performance stinks! SQL query freezes or timeouts, reports running too long, users complaining or getting disconnected, batch jobs failing, backups taking too long or failing to complete in their allotted window, and any of a host of [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]