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 20 detailed questions designed to identify the impact of I/O growth in the modern IT environment. In addition to multiple choice questions, the survey included optional open responses, allowing a respondent to provide commentary on why they selected a particular answer. All of the individual responses have been compiled across 68 pages to help readers dive deeply into any question.

The most interesting year over year take away when comparing the 2018 report against the 2017 report is that IT Professionals cite worsening performance from applications sitting on MS-SQL despite larger investments in multi-core servers and all-flash storage. More than 1 in 4 respondents cite staff and customer complaints regarding sluggish SQL queries and reports. No Condusiv customer was included in the survey.

Below is a word cloud representing hundreds of answers to visually show the applications IT Pros are having the most trouble to support from a performance standpoint.

To see what has either grown or shrunk, below is the same word cloud from 2017 responses.

 

The full report can be accessed by visiting I/O Performance Study

As much as organizations continue to reactively respond to performance challenges by purchasing expensive new server and storage hardware, our V-locity® I/O reduction software offers a far more efficient path by guaranteeing to solve the toughest application performance challenges on I/O intensive systems like MS-SQL. This means organizations are able to offload 50% of I/O traffic from storage that is nothing but mere noise chewing up IOPS and dampening performance. As soon as we open up 50% of that bandwidth to storage, sluggish performance disappears and now there’s far more storage IOPS to be used for other things.

To learn more about how V-locity I/O reduction software eliminates the two big I/O inefficiencies in a virtual environment see 2-min Video: Condusiv I/O Reduction Software Overview