When reading articles, blogs, and forums posted by well-respected (or at least well intentioned people) on the subject of fragmentation and SSDs, many make statements about how (1) SSDs don’t fragment, or (2) there’s no moving parts, so no problem, or (3) an SSD is [...]
If you’ve ever wondered about the exact business value that Condusiv® I/O reduction software provides to your systems, the latest “time saved” reporting does exactly that. Prior to V-locity® v6.2 for virtual servers and Diskeeper® 16 for physical servers and endpoints, customers would conduct expansive before/after tests to [...]
VMware: Defrag or Not? Dave Lewis sent in a question, “There is such a quandary about disk fragmentation in the VMware environment. One says defrag and another says never. Who's right? This has been a hard subject to track and define.” I’m going to debunk [...]
After having chatted with 50+ customers the last three months, I’ve heard the same five questions enough times to turn it into a blog entry, and a lot of it has to do with flash: 1. Do Condusiv products still “defrag” like in the old [...]
As much as we commonly mention the expected performance gains from V-locity® I/O reduction software is 50-300% faster application performance, that 50-300% can represent quite a range - a correlation relative to how badly systems are taxed by I/O inefficiencies in virtual environments that are [...]
Over the last year, 2,654 IT Professionals took our industry-first I/O Performance Survey, which makes it the largest I/O performance survey of its kind. The key findings from the survey reveal an I/O performance struggle for virtualized organizations as 77% of all respondents indicated I/O [...]
If you haven’t already heard the pre-announcement buzz on V-locity® 6.0 I/O reduction software that made a splash in the press, it’s being released in a couple weeks. To understand why it’s significant and why it’s an unprecedented 3X FASTER than its predecessor is to [...]
Slow medical record load times were hurting ER and overall patient care hospital-wide. Ryan Barker was responsible for overseeing the MEDITECH EHR systems at Hancock Regional. As he put it, “You can imagine how dire the situation can be, particularly in the ER. My users [...]
"We didn't know how much of our SQL performance was being dampened by the nasty 'I/O blender' effect….." As it turned out, it was HALF. That's right. Their systems were processing HALF as many MB/sec than they should due to the noise of all their [...]
ASL was in SQL batch job hell. A regular import of 150 million records into their SQL database would take 27 hours to complete. ASL’s account team and clients needed access to the most current data immediately, but the 27 hour batch job meant that [...]