IT teams across industries—from education and healthcare to finance and manufacturing—are under constant pressure to do more with less. While performance and uptime are non-negotiable, infrastructure budgets don’t always keep pace with demands. That’s where DymaxIO comes in. Below, you’ll hear directly from our customers about how DymaxIO helped them avoid expensive hardware upgrades, extend the life of their systems, and eliminate performance bottlenecks—saving tens of thousands to millions in the process.

Middletown Township Public School District:

Middletown Township Public School District achieved major performance improvements and cost savings by deploying DymaxIO on both older Windows servers and new Nutanix VMs. The software extended the life of aging Dell hardware—still running strong after 10 years with no notable disk failures—and required minimal maintenance. DymaxIO also improved system stability, reduced help desk traffic, and optimized I/O on critical servers, resulting in a more efficient and cost-effective IT environment.

“DymaxIO is no doubt a key reason for the servers’ longevity.” — David Siwiak, Director of Information Technology, Middletown Township Public School District

Primary Residential Mortgage

One unexpected and welcome benefit emerged – a remarkable decrease in hard drive failures since DymaxIO’s installation. In the past two years, the team replaced only 4 vSAN hard drives, a stark contrast to the typical 2 to 3 replacements per month in a comparable environment without DymaxIO.

“This reduction in hardware failures is a clear indicator that the I/O load on our backend storage has significantly decreased, thanks to DymaxIO. This stands in contrast to other environments lacking I/O optimization, where hardware failures occur more frequently due to increased I/O load.” — Jeremy Hill, PRMI’s Director of IT Systems

Altenloh, Brinck & Co. U.S.

Altenloh, Brinck & Co. U.S. struggled with performance issues after deploying a new Epicor ERP system, which caused backend bottlenecks, slow order processing, and shipping delays of at least a day. SQL response times lagged, increasing application wait times and data processing delays. The IT team was forced to spend days and weeks troubleshooting and putting out fires, draining valuable resources.

“We were looking at adding more hardware and hoping for the best. We did finally add more VMs to split up the load, but it had no impact. It had nothing to do with the application, but the volume of I/O going through the system.” — Curt Hapner, Chief Information Officer

Since rolling out DymaxIO, there have been no system crashes, device lock-ups, and corrupted data tables. “By getting rid of I/O, DymaxIO solved our problems, and I saved about $250K in hardware costs. Performance has improved so significantly, orders move from sales to shipping in real-time, saving a day of productivity. Now our biggest problem is we can hardly keep up with the pace of the orders. We’re more efficient than ever and people are back to loving their jobs.” — Curt Hapner, Chief Information Officer

Community Medical Center (CMC)

Community Medical Center faced user complaints about sluggish MS-SQL performance, but a costly forklift upgrade to an all-flash system was not a viable option.

“There’s no way we would have achieved a 5-year lifecycle on our storage system without DymaxIO offloading so much I/O traffic from that subsystem. We had no idea how many I/O operations from virtual server to storage were essentially wasted activity due to Windows write inefficiencies chewing up IOPS or hot data that is more effectively served from available DRAM.” — IT Director at Community Medical Center

University of Illinois

Despite using a high-performance all-flash storage array, the University of Illinois Facilities and Services team saw a decline in database performance as data and user loads grew. Their systems were being overwhelmed by an excessive number of small, inefficient I/O operations caused by Windows Server write behavior. These fractured reads and writes created a “drag by a thousand cuts” effect, severely impacting performance—even on fast storage—until DymaxIO addressed the root cause.

“It wasn’t necessarily ‘death by a thousand cuts,’ because our all-flash array didn’t ‘die’ from it, but it was more like ‘drag by a thousand cuts.’ Everything was just slower due to Windows Server write inefficiencies that break writes down to be much smaller than they need to be, and forces the all-flash SAN to process far more I/O operations than necessary for any given workload.

“We thought we were getting the most performance possible from our systems, but it wasn’t until we used DymaxIO that we realized how inefficient these systems really are if you’re not addressing the root cause performance issues related to the I/O profile from Windows servers. By solving the issue of small, fractured, random I/O, we’ve been able to increase the efficiency of our infrastructure and, ultimately, our people.” — Greg Landes, Manager of Systems Services

CHRISTUS Health

Before deploying DymaxIO, CHRISTUS had plans to purchase roughly $2 million in storage hardware to increase the performance of its MEDITECH application. However, after deploying DymaxIO acceleration software across 70+ servers, performance problems were eliminated overnight and CHRISTUS Health was able to avoid a costly hardware upgrade to its data center.

“We are constantly scrutinizing our budget, so anything that helps us avoid buying more storage hardware for performance or host-related infrastructure is a huge benefit,” — Tom Swearingen, Manager, Infrastructure Services, Christus Health

“Facing a $2 million storage purchase to solve our performance issues didn’t sit well with any of us.” We heard what DymaxIO acceleration software had done to help other MEDITECH hospitals, so we were eager to try it for ourselves. After deploying DymaxIO and conducting a before/after performance analysis, we found that DymaxIO doubled the speed of our patient records. DymaxIO provided enough speed to meet our application SLAs, so there was no longer a need to make a $2 million storage purchase for increased performance.” — Tom Swearingen, Manager, Infrastructure Services, Christus Health

A Teichert & Son, Inc.

Deploying Condusiv’s software to all of Teichert’s systems, and keeping current with version upgrades, has eliminated the need for them to spend more money on additional hardware and other 3rd party performance acceleration solutions.

“We were looking at other solutions that could give us a performance boost, you know…things that pool memory at the host or required an expensive all-flash card to be added to the host. We were able to skip all that because Condusiv solved it with a simple install right into the VM and that’s it. You’re done. I would recommend Condusiv to anyone that doesn’t want to be stuck with unnecessary hardware costs and needs a solution to add an extra layer of enhanced performance.” — Steve Lomax, Teichert’s Senior Windows Systems Administrator

PathPoint

With a small IT team supporting 14 locations and nearly 500 employees, PathPoint faced the challenge of maintaining a reliable and efficient infrastructure on a limited budget. As technology became more critical to their mission, sluggish system performance and limited troubleshooting capacity began to impact productivity and service quality. To address these issues and reduce manual maintenance, PathPoint needed a smarter, more efficient way to optimize their IT environment.

“Now when we are configuring our workstations and laptops, the first thing we do is install DymaxIO. We have several lab computers that we don’t put the software on, and the difference is obvious in day-to-day functionality. DymaxIO has essentially eliminated all helpdesk calls related to sluggish performance” — Curt Dennett, PathPoint’s VP of Technology and Infrastructure.

Additionally, Curt found that workstations with DymaxIO installed have a 5-year lifecycle versus the lab computers without DymaxIO that only last 3 years. Curt has also extended the life of physical servers running full production workloads by years simply by installing DymaxIO from day one.

“We don’t need to re-format machines running DymaxIO nearly as often. As a result, we gained back valuable time for other important initiatives while securing peak performance and longevity out of our physical hardware assets. With limited budgets, that has truly put us at ease.” — Curt Dennett, PathPoint’s VP of Technology and Infrastructure.

Optimize What You Have—And Save Big

If you’re facing mounting infrastructure costs or planning your next hardware refresh, DymaxIO might be the smart, simple solution you’ve been looking for. Our customers have seen substantial cost savings without adding new hardware or making major changes—just by optimizing what they already have. Want to see the full stories behind these quotes? Visit our case study library to explore how DymaxIO is helping IT teams stretch budgets, eliminate waste, and deliver results.