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Windows is still Windows Whether in the Cloud, on Hyperconverged or All-flash

Let me start by stating two facts – facts that I will substantiate if you continue to the end. Fact #1: Windows suffers from severe write inefficiencies that dampen overall performance. The holy grail question as to how severe is answered below. Fact #2: Windows is still Windows whether running [...]

By |August 4th, 2022|Categories: Application Performance, Cloud, SAN, SQL Server, SSD, Solid State, Flash|3 Comments

MEDITECH Hospital Speeds EHR & MS-SQL with DymaxIO I/O Transformation Software

The Performance Challenges Community Medical Center (CMC) had one initial requirement – find a FAL remediation solution for their MEDITECH electronic health record (EHR) application to maintain 24/7 availability and avoid downtime. What surprised them the most was the extent of the performance boost from using DymaxIO™ I/O transformation software. [...]

By |June 14th, 2022|Categories: Application Performance, DymaxIO, MEDITECH|0 Comments

University of Illinois Doubles SQL and Oracle Performance on All-Flash Arrays with DymaxIO I/O Transformation Software

The University of Illinois, had already deployed an all-flash Dell Compellent storage array to support their hardest hitting application, AssetWorks AiM, that runs on Oracle. After a year in service, performance began to erode due to growth in users and overall workload. Other hard hitting MS-SQL applications supported by hybrid [...]

By |March 11th, 2022|Categories: SQL Server, Virtualization, Windows Servers|0 Comments

A Deep Dive Into The I/O Performance Dashboard

While most users are familiar with the main DymaxIO™/Diskeeper®/V-locity®/SSDkeeper™ Dashboard view which focuses on the number of I/Os eliminated and Storage I/O Time Saved, the I/O Performance Dashboard tab takes a deeper look into the performance characteristics of I/O activity. The data shown here is similar in nature to other [...]

By |March 10th, 2022|Categories: DymaxIO, IntelliMemory, IntelliWrite|7 Comments

Application Performance is Not at the Mercy of Your Hardware

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 other Windows application performance troubles [...]

By |February 9th, 2022|Categories: Application Performance, Uncategorized|0 Comments

13 Windows Performance Problems Traced to a Single Source

13 substantial Windows performance problems that can cause the most frustration and chew up valuable IT time can be directly traced to a single source. In this article, we’re going to show you how. First, let’s briefly touch on and describe each Windows performance issues. 1. Slow Application Performance This [...]

By |January 24th, 2022|Categories: Application Performance, DymaxIO, Performance, SQL Server|0 Comments

Caching Is King

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 above the others. Best Performance [...]

Windows Server 2022 – DymaxIO and Undelete 11 Fully Compatible

Condusiv Technologies has ensured that its current products DymaxIO™ and Undelete® are fully compatible and supported on Windows Server 2022. The previous products, Diskeeper 18 and V-locity 7 also ran fine on the new Windows platform. In addition to Condusiv’s own rigorous in-house certification, Condusiv works closely with Microsoft for [...]

By |November 9th, 2021|Categories: DymaxIO, Undelete, Windows Servers|Tags: |0 Comments

6 Best Practices to Improve SQL Query Performance

Tips for Optimized Microsoft SQL Server Performance MS SQL Server is a very popular RDMS (relational database management system) with many benefits and features that empower its efficient operation. As with any such robust platform, however—especially one which has matured as SQL Server has—there have been best practices evolved that [...]

By |October 18th, 2021|Categories: DymaxIO, I/O, SQL Server|0 Comments

DymaxIO and Undelete 11 Fully Compatible with Windows 11

Microsoft officially released Windows 11 to the public this week and like with all previous Windows releases, Condusiv Technologies has ensured that its current products DymaxIO™ and Undelete® are fully compatible and supported on it.  We have also verified that Diskeeper® 18 is fully compatible with Windows 11. Besides Condusiv’s [...]

By |October 6th, 2021|Categories: DymaxIO, Undelete, Windows Servers|0 Comments

I Have Backups and Snapshots, So Why Do Condusiv Customers Use Undelete?

Enterprises use backups and snapshots to recover data sets in the event of system failure. But how about individual files on file servers? Often times users accidentally delete or overwrite files saved on file servers. Backups and snapshots can still be used to retrieve those files but that can be [...]

By |April 27th, 2021|Categories: Data Protection and Recovery, Undelete|0 Comments

A Simple Trick on Maintaining Your Storage Performance – Maintain Your Free Space

Low Free Space Impact on Storage Performance In the last few months, I was approached by three different companies that were frantic because they were experiencing an EXTREME fragmentation issue. Not just files that were in hundreds or thousands of fragments, but in millions! Of course, this was causing performance [...]

By |April 6th, 2021|Categories: Storage Performance|0 Comments

Undelete Saves Your Bacon, An In-depth Video Series

Undelete Saves Your Bacon! Undelete® is a lot more than those simple file recovery utilities that just search through free space on Windows machines looking for recoverable data. Undelete does so much more; protecting files in network shared folders and capturing versions of any number of file types. If you've [...]