Before discovering Diskeeper®, Cultech Limited experienced sluggish ERP and SQL performance, unnecessary downtime, and lost valuable hours each day troubleshooting issues related to Windows write inefficiencies.

As an internationally recognized innovator and premium quality manufacturer within the nutritional supplement industry, the usual troubleshooting approaches just weren’t cutting it. “We were running a very demanding ERP system on legacy servers and network. A hardware refresh was the first step in troubleshooting our issues. As much as we did see some improvement, it did not solve the daily breakdowns associated with our Sage ERP,” said Rob, IT Manager, Cultech Limited.

After upgrading the network and replacing ERP and SQL servers and not seeing much improvement, Rob further dug into troubleshooting approaches and SQL optimizations. With months of troubleshooting and SQL optimizations and no relief, Rob continued to research and find a way to improve performance issues, knowing that Cultech could not continue to interrupt productivity multiple times a day to fix corrupted records. As Rob explains, “I was on support calls with Sage literally day and night to solve issues that occurred daily. Files would not write properly to the database, and I would have to go through the tedious process of getting all users to logout of Sage then manually correct the problem – a 25-min exercise. That might not be a big deal every so often, but I found myself doing this 3-4 times a day at times.”

In doing his research, Rob found Condusiv’s® Diskeeper Server and decided to give it a try after reading customer testimonials on how it had solved similar performance issues. To Cultech’s surprise, after just 24-hours of being installed, they were no longer calling Sage support. “I installed Diskeeper and crossed my fingers, hoping it would solve at least some of our problems. It didn’t just solve some problems, it solved all of our problems. I was calling Sage support daily then suddenly I wasn’t calling them at all,” said Rob. Problems that Rob was having to fix outside of production hours had been solved thanks to Diskeeper’s ability to prevent fragmentation from occurring. And in addition to recouping hours a day of downtime during production hours, Cultech was now able to focus this time and energy on innovation and producing quality products.

“Now that we have Diskeeper optimizing our Sage servers and SQL servers, we have it running on our other key systems to ensure peak performance and optimum reliability. Instead of considering Windows write inefficiencies as a culprit after trying all else, I would encourage administrators to think of it first,” said Rob.

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