When Big Data Hurts
I recently spoke with Bell Mobility's Adam Moore, a member of the organization's OSS Systems Integration Team. Bell Mobility is Bell Canada's wireless division, employing a multitude of analysts who...
View ArticleThe Student Enrollment Blues
It was a bad day for Steve Bettoni, Tech Support and IT Procurement Officer of Stockport College. Steve is responsible for the infrastructure that supports the college's enrollment apps, SAP, and...
View ArticleAnnouncing V-locity version 5
“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.” - Bruce LeeRemoving the nonessential is a key element of simplicity and efficiency, yet it is deceptively difficult...
View ArticleV-locity version 5 – The Director’s Cut
As you know, we just released V-locity version 5. Here’s the director’s cut.We committed a slew of engineers to several months of development to build an enterprise-class management console for...
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Mad Men, Awesome Chairs, and a Pretty Big IT Problem
Next month Mad Men returns to AMC for its final season. I'll miss it. The show had some great character development, terrific dialogue, and cool cars. But the set design! Oh the set design. I'm a fan...
View ArticleThe Real Meaning of Disruption
Disruption is a popular word these days. Is it the replacement for innovation, which we’ve overused into pointlessness over the past ten years? Maybe, but disruption means more: it carries the weight...
View ArticleWhen Dave Cappuccio of Gartner Speaks, People Listen
As others entered the stage, there was perfunctory applause. However, when Dave entered a roar of applause erupted, and the event ground to a halt for several minutes.Sitting in the audience at Gartner...
View ArticleThe Gartner Cool Vendor Report in Storage Technologies: Vanity or Value
We all like lists that rank who is cool, best in class or top score in a buyer’s guide. Every year, Gartner releases their prized "Cool Vendor" selection. But is it just vanity for the vendor selected...
View ArticleIs Fragmentation Robbing SAN Performance?
This month Condusiv® announced the most significant development in the Diskeeper® product line to date – expanding our patented fragmentation prevention capabilities beyond server local storage or...
View ArticleV-locity 6.0 Solves Death by a Thousand Cuts in Virtual Environments
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...
View ArticleLargest-Ever I/O Performance Study
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...
View ArticleTop 5 Questions from V-locity and Diskeeper Customers
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...
View ArticleTeaser: Coming Soon! Intelligent Caching and Fragmentation Prevention = IO...
Sometimes the performance of physical servers, PCs and laptops slows to a crawl. No matter what you do, it takes half an eternity to open some files. It’s tied into the architecture of the Windows...
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New! Diskeeper 16 Guarantees “Faster than New” Performance for Physical...
The world’s most popular defragmentation software for physical servers and PCs makes “defrag” a thing of the past and delivers “faster than new” performance by dynamically caching hot reads with idle...
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First-ever “Time Saved” Dashboard = Holy Grail for I/O Reduction Software...
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 this release,...
View ArticleHow Can I/O Reduction Software Guarantee to Solve the Toughest Performance...
The #1 request I’ve been getting from customers is a white board video that succinctly explains the two silent killers of VM performance and how our I/O reduction guarantees to solve performance...
View ArticleCondusiv Launches SSDkeeper Software that Guarantees “Faster than New”...
The company that sold over 100 Million Diskeeper® licenses for hard disk drive systems, now releases SSDkeeper™ to keep solid-state drive systems running longer while performing “faster than new.”Every...
View ArticleRecently Discovered SSD Vulnerabilities Could Cripple Global Markets with...
Recently discovered multi-level cell (MLC) solid-state drive (SSD) vulnerabilities by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Seagate, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich,...
View ArticleIt’s Diskeeper Groundhog Day
Every week, I find myself sending the same email to at least one Diskeeper® customer. Almost every time, it’s a new manager/director/VP who joins the company and hears Diskeeper is running on their...
View ArticleThe Revolution of Our Technology
I chose to use the word “Revolution” instead of “Evolution” because, with all due modesty, our patented technology has been more a series of leaps to stay ahead of performance-crushing bottlenecks....
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