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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
There’s a storm brewing and chances are, it’s going to hit your data center or cloud site. It’s the tsunami of data that is washing over the IT world and it is just going to get worse. That’s because there is an insatiable demand for [...]
A little more than a year ago, Case Management Solutions reached out to Dealflow, a Condusiv® Authorized Reseller, about getting help in finding a solution for what had become a notoriously slow application sitting on MS-SQL supported by NAS storage. “If a file was 50 [...]
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 [...]