If you’re currently running DymaxIO in your environment, there’s something happening in the market right now that directly reinforces your decision. Across industries, IT teams are running into the same issue: Hardware upgrade costs—especially memory—are rising sharply Some infrastructure quotes are coming in 2–3x higher [...]
There are few guarantees in the IT world, but solving the toughest application performance problems in your Windows environment, while saving a bundle of cash, can be guaranteed. Let's review how. The Data Center View Using some simple "whiteboard" graphics, let’s start with the Data [...]
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 [...]
Caching technology has been around for quite some time, so why is Condusiv’s patented IntelliMemory® caching so unique that it outperforms other caching technology and has been licensed by other top OEM PC and Storage vendors? There are a few innovations that make it stand [...]
Welcome to Undelete Server The Undelete® Server software includes powerful features and components to provide real time data protection enabling you to recover accidentally deleted files very fast. This article is for you if you have purchased the Undelete software, are using the 30-day trial [...]
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 [...]
Since the news broke on the Intel CPU security flaw, we have fielded customer concerns about the potential impact to our software and worries of increased contention for CPU cycles if less CPU power1 is available after the patches issued by affected vendors.Let us first simply [...]
I first chatted with Chuck Keith (Dir of Infrastructure, Supreme Lending) a couple years ago at VMworld. They had a custom-built loan application that sat on MS-SQL that was the most mission critical application to the business. The loan officers relied on it daily to [...]
In just 3 minutes, George Crump, Sr Analyst at Storage Switzerland, explains the real problem around fragmentation and SAN storage, debunks misconceptions, and describes what organizations are doing about it. It should be noted, that even though he is speaking about the Windows OS on [...]
According to our recent survey to Meditech hospitals, half receive staff or customer complaints regarding EHR performance while the other half do not. Since virtualizing, 62% purchased a new SAN, 10% added SAS spindles, 20% added server-side SSDs or PCIe flash, 24% added storage-side SSDs, [...]