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openBench Labs: Boosting SQL Server Performance in a Virtual Environment
How can I/O optimization technology boost SQL Server response time by 130% and throughput by 50% in a virtual environment? openBench Labs tested V-locity VM in its independent lab—examining how the software dramatically increases SQL Server performance on VMs—with no additional hardware. Read the report…
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
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Condusiv's V-locity Server Accelerates SQL Server by 55%
openBench Labs tested V-locity Server, validating the claim that the I/O optimization software accelerates applications on physical servers by 50% or more-with no added hardware. openBench tested V-locity with SQL Server on physical servers, by running the maximum number of daemon processes non-stop, with no lag between query activity. Read...
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
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openBench: V-locity VM Accelerates Exchange 2010 Over 60%
openBench Labs recently tested Condusiv’s V-locity VM, seeking to validate the claim that V-locity I/O optimization software accelerates applications in virtual environments by 50% or more—with no extra hardware. Since Exchange is one of the most widely used server programs in the world, openBench set up a full-scale test environment...
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
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Key Considerations for Increasing Windows System Performance
Rather than rely on the Windows built-in defrag tool to address performance problems “after-the-fact” on laptops and workstations, IT departments can now address the problem proactively to eliminate performance-robbing fragmentation from ever occurring. One simple fix will put a stop to pesky helpdesk performance issues and ensure you never defrag...
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
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The End of Fragmentation: How to Keep Windows Systems Running Like New
Imagine a Windows system that maintains optimum performance over time and never needs to be “de-fragged” again. By proactively optimizing I/O at the Windows level, fragmentation is prevented before it ever becomes a problem. As a result, Windows systems continue to run like new. This white paper examines what productive...
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
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How to Boost Physical Servers by 50%—Without New Hardware
IT faces immense data growth and heavier server workloads, but there is no longer a need to add hardware for performance: IT now has the ability to manage the I/O explosion and gain high-performance—overnight—with hardware they already have. Learn about optimized I/O and how it efficiently boosts IOPS and reduces...
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
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openBench: V-locity VM Boosts Virtual Machine Performance over 50% without Additional Hardware
There are inherent behaviors associated with Windows-based VMs that cause a tremendous amount of unnecessary I/O operations to be pushed down into the network and storage. In a virtualized environment, the problem is compounded as multiple VMs share the same storage, resulting in highly random I/O activity. This not only...
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
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IDC Spotlight: Managing the I/O Explosion without Additional Hardware using V-locity
In this Technology Spotlight, IDC provides landmark research into the unexpected I/O explosion brought about by virtualization and offers guidance to organizations looking to eliminate I/O bottlenecks without incurring the cost of extra storage hardware to keep up with application demand. IDC outlines how increased agility of virtualization has compounded...
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
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Guide to 50% Faster VMs - No Hardware Required
For administrators who want to increase application performance in their virtual environment without incurring the cost of additional hardware, this white paper outlines how I/O optimization technologies deliver performance at a fraction of the cost of hardware for applications with the heaviest workloads.
The white paper identifies how the...Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
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openBench Labs: How Diskeeper 12 Keeps the Latest Windows OS Running Like New
There are inherent behaviors associated with Windows that degrade system performance over time. In this Executive Summary, openBench Labs provides a technical narrative on the nature of Windows system performance issues, and performs testing to validate Condusiv's Diskeeper 12's ability to accelerate the latest Windows environments.
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
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Top Ten Myths About Recovering Deleted Files
Your network files are not as easy to recover as you think. Why? Because the Windows Recycle Bin doesn’t capture deleted network files from a file server, and recovering a file from backup is arduous. Organizations use Undelete as a first line of defense for quick retrieval of deleted files...
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
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OnDemand: Faster VMs Guaranteed – No Hardware Required
Learn how optimizing I/O at the source on virtual machines provides up to 50% or more application performance at a fraction of the cost of hardware. By eliminating unnecessary I/O traffic at the guest level, there is far less traffic pushed into the server, network, and storage.
This OnDemand...Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
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Double I/O for Windows 7/8/server 2012 - No Hardware Required
openBench Labs benchmarks and validates read/write optimization for the latest Windows environments (7/8/server 2012) that results in a 2X performance boost from workstations to servers. No hardware required to slash the I/O requirement on every file by 50% at a fraction of the cost for equivalent performance from hardware. Workstations...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Double I/O for Windows 7/8/server 2012 - No Hardware Required
openBench Labs benchmarks and validates read/write optimization for the latest Windows environments (7/8/server 2012) that results in a 2X performance boost from workstations to servers. No hardware required to slash the I/O requirement on every file by 50% at a fraction of the cost for equivalent performance from hardware. Workstations...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Diskeeper 12: Improving the Performance of SAN Storage
The task of maintaining peak performance is critical for the modern storage administrator. More and more mission-critical applications rely on the shared storage infrastructure for real-time activity, and enterprise-level businesses are graduating live workstations and production servers to SAN systems. Meanwhile, the potential for resource bottlenecks becomes more complicated due...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Inside Diskeeper 12 with IntelliWrite
All systems suffer from file fragmentation. That fragmentation manifests as slowed anti-malware scans and backup times, lost productivity, greater hardware costs, increased Help Desk traffic, reduced application reliability, and many more burdensome and costly consequences.
Defragmenters can fix this critical issue, some more rapidly and thoroughly than others, but...Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Keeping Your SQL Server Databases Defragmented with Diskeeper
To defrag external fragmentation takes an operating system utility, not a SQL Server utility. One of the most popular tools for defragmenting SQL Server database files is a tool from Condusiv Technologies Corporation called Diskeeper. Diskeeper has been around for many years, and many of you may already be familiar...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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The Impact of Disk Fragmentation on Servers
Windows IT Pro tested the impact of server disk fragmentation by looking at common tasks that network servers, both physical and virtual, encounter, ranging from maintenance tasks such as server backup and anti-virus scans, to basic knowledge worker tasks involving opening files stored on the host server and virtual machines,...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Tactics in Optimizing Virtual Machine Disk IOPS
Learn in The Essentials Series: Tactics in Optimizing Virtual Machine Disk IOPS how a bad design combined with incorrect VM configurations can be destructive on performance. You'll understand the poor practices that hinder VM disk I/O and how Windows old enemy fragmentation has a significant impact. Optimizing your VMs requires...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Diskeeper 12: Ensuring Maximum Performance on Windows 7 Systems
This white paper delivers the results of a series of tests that compare the performance of a third party tool, Diskeeper, to that of the native Windows 7 defragmentation utility in the areas of fragmentation prevention and defragmentation. Read it now to learn which fared better, and what the results...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Diskeeper 12 Server Edition - FREE 30-day trialware
SAN-attached servers require specific best-practice file optimization to allow the SAN to achieve its best performance. This pre-configured variation of Diskeeper Server edition is separately available and comes set and ready to optimize server data performance in a SAN environment without actually touching the SAN layer.
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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V-locity 3 Virtual Platform Disk Optimizer - FREE 30-day trialware
Virtual infrastructures must be dynamic, efficient and above all else, fast because they process the most critical company data. But underlying resource use must be optimized or the platform can slow to a crawl. V-locity 3 brings an unprecedented depth of resource awareness and new technology for peak performance in...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Running Diskeeper and V-locity on SAN Devices
This brief discusses some of the myths and concerns regarding defragmentation on SAN devices. In most cases, a "standard disk defragmenter" should not be run on a SAN device, but Diskeeper and V-locity are not "standard disk defragmenters." They are storage optimizers that contain technology and innovations that are designed...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Windows Defragmenter: Not Good Enough
This brief discusses how the Windows Built-in Disk Defragmenter was originally designed as a band-aid for low active systems and, although it has evolved, Diskeeper and V-locity have evolved leaps and bounds in this same time period to keep up with the ever-evolving technologies, such as Virtualization and the huge...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Is Preventing Fragmentation Needed in Today's Environment?
Today the number of files stored on volumes is much greater than in times past. The increase in the number of files not only necessitates larger storage capacities but, due to inherent fragmentation problems, puts a burden on local disk file systems to keep files stored contiguously.
As files...Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Best Practices for using Diskeeper®/V-locity® on Storage Area Networks (SANs)
As high-performing storage solutions based on block protocols (e.g., iSCSI, FC), SANs excel at optimizing block access. SANs work at a storage layer underneath the operating system's file system; usually NTFS when discussing Microsoft Windows?. That dictates that a SAN is unaware of "file" fragmentation and unable to solve this...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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V-locity 3®: Virtual Optimization Realized
While virtualization is tasked to optimize storage efficiency, there has been nothing in place to optimize the NTFS file system's I/O efficiency. As a consequence, I/O bottlenecks develop rapidly in the multi-OS virtual environment and existing physical storage investments consistently fall short of performance expectations. At the same time, inefficient...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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24 Technical Considerations for Selecting a Performance Optimization Solution for the Enterprise
The principal purpose of this paper is to compare the enterprise-targeted technologies in the Diskeeper? performance software product line with the basic defragmentation solution offered in Windows' more recent operating system releases.
While built-in "lite" programs may not have a direct licensing cost, they certainly carry an often hidden...Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Identifying Reliability/Stability Issues Caused by File Fragmentation
Discover the most common reliability and downtime phenomena associated with fragmentation and the technical reasons behind them. Get an in-depth understanding of each of the most common occurrences documented by Diskeeper Corporation R&D labs, customers and others.
Over the years, numerous manufacturers, third party analysts and labs have reported...Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Increasing Efficiency in the IT Environment
The efficient use of I/O resources directly affects performance and operating costs throughout a system, network, Virtual and Cloud environment. Despite advances in hardware speed and storage technology, file and free space fragmentation has become more of an issue, not less of one. Fragmentation creates profound performance waste at the...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Why Native Windows Defragmentation Isn't Enough
Fragmentation has long been known as the hard disks' silent killer. Every year, billions of dollars are spent on IT networks to increase performance and reliability, but improperly managed fragmentation cuts deeply into its effectiveness. Left alone, fragmentation will slow disk reads and writes and ultimately affect the user experience...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Optimizing Virtual Platform Disk Performance
Effective integration of a virtual architecture today has a profound impact on business continuity: Better network efficiency, lower operating costs, and more value from your hardware. However, the underlying shared storage and the nature of virtual resource allocation are sensitive to data storage pitfalls. The problem lies in the fact...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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System Reliability Gains Achieved by Survey with Diskeeper
Over 300 IT managers evaluate Diskeeper on crucial issues that can make or break a site's viability. Find out what they discovered in real world situations. System longevity, bandwidth, stability, file corruption, hard drive failures and many more issues are examined in detail. Download now!
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Best Practices for Eliminating Fragmentation with Modern Storage Technologies
Due to the significant complexity of the software and hardware used in modern storage environments, there are many myths and misconceptions regarding the continuing need for a solution to fragmentation. The fact remains that the disk is the weak link made weaker by fragmentation and it is the last place...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Unprecedented System Speed and Efficiency: The NEW technology that will take you there
Achieve greater system speed and efficiency than ever thought possible with a new breakthrough technology that prevents disk fragmentation before it happens.
Every system, every network, every company suffers from the effects of fragmentation. What if it didn't have to? Read about a revolutionary new fragmentation prevention technology, called...Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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The Essentials Series: Why You Need to Defragment
Authored by Microsoft MVP Greg Shields, this tech report is a call to arms for Windows administrators, reminding them why defragmenting is so important. Everyone wants better system performance and efficiency. Everyone wants a lower cost of ownership. This report details exactly how an administrator can get it fast.
...Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Setting the record straight: SAN defrag is vital to storage performance.
Data volumes continue to grow. More companies are consolidating and virtualizing their IT infrastructures and far more demand is placed on storage performance. But one aspect that often gets overlooked is the role SAN disk defragmenting plays in improving performance. In particular, companies overlook the performance degradation due to file...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Setting the record straight: SAN defrag is vital to storage performance
Data volumes continue to grow. More companies are consolidating and virtualizing their IT infrastructures and far more demand is placed on storage performance. But one aspect that often gets overlooked is the role SAN disk defragmenting plays in improving performance. In particular, companies overlook the performance degradation due to file...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation
Fragmentation results in significant money and time drain on IT resources. The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation helps IT professionals, analysts, and engineers understand the benefit of an automatic hands free disk defragmentation strategy across the enterprise. This in-depth independent study covers disk architecture, examines how the pervasive problem...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Diskeeper 2008 Enterprise Server Performance White Paper
Disk fragmentation can cause a multitude of issues, including both stability and reliability problems. In order to defragment hard drives, many individuals still rely on Microsoft's native defragmentation tool which has a voracious appetite for system resources, and is often run after-hours. Diskeeper Corporation has been developing defragmentation tools for...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
-
The End of Fragmentation: How to Keep Windows Systems Running Like New
Imagine a Windows system that maintains optimum performance over time and never needs to be “de-fragged” again. By proactively optimizing I/O at the Windows level, fragmentation is prevented before it ever becomes a problem. As a result, Windows systems continue to run like new. This white paper examines what productive...
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
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Top Ten Myths About Recovering Deleted Files
Your network files are not as easy to recover as you think. Why? Because the Windows Recycle Bin doesn’t capture deleted network files from a file server, and recovering a file from backup is arduous. Organizations use Undelete as a first line of defense for quick retrieval of deleted files...
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
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openBench Labs: How Diskeeper 12 Keeps the Latest Windows OS Running Like New
There are inherent behaviors associated with Windows that degrade system performance over time. In this Executive Summary, openBench Labs provides a technical narrative on the nature of Windows system performance issues, and performs testing to validate Condusiv's Diskeeper 12's ability to accelerate the latest Windows environments.
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
-
Key Considerations for Increasing Windows System Performance
Rather than rely on the Windows built-in defrag tool to address performance problems “after-the-fact” on laptops and workstations, IT departments can now address the problem proactively to eliminate performance-robbing fragmentation from ever occurring. One simple fix will put a stop to pesky helpdesk performance issues and ensure you never defrag...
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
-
How to Boost Physical Servers by 50%—Without New Hardware
IT faces immense data growth and heavier server workloads, but there is no longer a need to add hardware for performance: IT now has the ability to manage the I/O explosion and gain high-performance—overnight—with hardware they already have. Learn about optimized I/O and how it efficiently boosts IOPS and reduces...
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
-
Guide to 50% Faster VMs - No Hardware Required
For administrators who want to increase application performance in their virtual environment without incurring the cost of additional hardware, this white paper outlines how I/O optimization technologies deliver performance at a fraction of the cost of hardware for applications with the heaviest workloads.
The white paper identifies how the...Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
-
openBench: V-locity VM Accelerates Exchange 2010 Over 60%
openBench Labs recently tested Condusiv’s V-locity VM, seeking to validate the claim that V-locity I/O optimization software accelerates applications in virtual environments by 50% or more—with no extra hardware. Since Exchange is one of the most widely used server programs in the world, openBench set up a full-scale test environment...
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
-
Condusiv's V-locity Server Accelerates SQL Server by 55%
openBench Labs tested V-locity Server, validating the claim that the I/O optimization software accelerates applications on physical servers by 50% or more-with no added hardware. openBench tested V-locity with SQL Server on physical servers, by running the maximum number of daemon processes non-stop, with no lag between query activity. Read...
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
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openBench: V-locity VM Boosts Virtual Machine Performance over 50% without Additional Hardware
There are inherent behaviors associated with Windows-based VMs that cause a tremendous amount of unnecessary I/O operations to be pushed down into the network and storage. In a virtualized environment, the problem is compounded as multiple VMs share the same storage, resulting in highly random I/O activity. This not only...
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
-
IDC Spotlight: Managing the I/O Explosion without Additional Hardware using V-locity
In this Technology Spotlight, IDC provides landmark research into the unexpected I/O explosion brought about by virtualization and offers guidance to organizations looking to eliminate I/O bottlenecks without incurring the cost of extra storage hardware to keep up with application demand. IDC outlines how increased agility of virtualization has compounded...
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
-
OnDemand: Faster VMs Guaranteed – No Hardware Required
Learn how optimizing I/O at the source on virtual machines provides up to 50% or more application performance at a fraction of the cost of hardware. By eliminating unnecessary I/O traffic at the guest level, there is far less traffic pushed into the server, network, and storage.
This OnDemand...Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
-
openBench Labs: Boosting SQL Server Performance in a Virtual Environment
How can I/O optimization technology boost SQL Server response time by 130% and throughput by 50% in a virtual environment? openBench Labs tested V-locity VM in its independent lab—examining how the software dramatically increases SQL Server performance on VMs—with no additional hardware. Read the report…
Sponsored By Condusiv Technologies
-
Double I/O for Windows 7/8/server 2012 - No Hardware Required
openBench Labs benchmarks and validates read/write optimization for the latest Windows environments (7/8/server 2012) that results in a 2X performance boost from workstations to servers. No hardware required to slash the I/O requirement on every file by 50% at a fraction of the cost for equivalent performance from hardware. Workstations...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
-
Double I/O for Windows 7/8/server 2012 - No Hardware Required
openBench Labs benchmarks and validates read/write optimization for the latest Windows environments (7/8/server 2012) that results in a 2X performance boost from workstations to servers. No hardware required to slash the I/O requirement on every file by 50% at a fraction of the cost for equivalent performance from hardware. Workstations...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Gauging the Impact of Fragmentation
Looking for an accurate way to measure fragmentation on your systems? This white paper has clear step-by-step instructions that can tell if your volumes are standing up to fragmentation or if your performance is deteriorating.
The paper also recommends a handful of performance measurement tools from software companies that...Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Keeping Your SQL Server Databases Defragmented with Diskeeper
To defrag external fragmentation takes an operating system utility, not a SQL Server utility. One of the most popular tools for defragmenting SQL Server database files is a tool from Condusiv Technologies Corporation called Diskeeper. Diskeeper has been around for many years, and many of you may already be familiar...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Defrag Myth Busters - What You Should Know
There are many serious misconceptions about fragmentation which, if believed, can lead to significant computer damage. Debunking these myths could save your system or network.
Fragmentation is one of the most serious problems that plague computers around the globe. It accounts for billions in lost revenue and production. It...Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation
Fragmentation results in significant money and time drain on IT resources. The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation helps IT professionals, analysts, and engineers understand the benefit of an automatic hands free disk defragmentation strategy across the enterprise. This in-depth independent study covers disk architecture, examines how the pervasive problem...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
-
The Impact of Disk Fragmentation on Servers
Windows IT Pro tested the impact of server disk fragmentation by looking at common tasks that network servers, both physical and virtual, encounter, ranging from maintenance tasks such as server backup and anti-virus scans, to basic knowledge worker tasks involving opening files stored on the host server and virtual machines,...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
-
Setting the record straight: SAN defrag is vital to storage performance.
Data volumes continue to grow. More companies are consolidating and virtualizing their IT infrastructures and far more demand is placed on storage performance. But one aspect that often gets overlooked is the role SAN disk defragmenting plays in improving performance. In particular, companies overlook the performance degradation due to file...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
-
Tactics in Optimizing Virtual Machine Disk IOPS
Learn in The Essentials Series: Tactics in Optimizing Virtual Machine Disk IOPS how a bad design combined with incorrect VM configurations can be destructive on performance. You'll understand the poor practices that hinder VM disk I/O and how Windows old enemy fragmentation has a significant impact. Optimizing your VMs requires...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
-
Diskeeper 12: Ensuring Maximum Performance on Windows 7 Systems
This white paper delivers the results of a series of tests that compare the performance of a third party tool, Diskeeper, to that of the native Windows 7 defragmentation utility in the areas of fragmentation prevention and defragmentation. Read it now to learn which fared better, and what the results...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Diskeeper 12 Server Edition - FREE 30-day trialware
SAN-attached servers require specific best-practice file optimization to allow the SAN to achieve its best performance. This pre-configured variation of Diskeeper Server edition is separately available and comes set and ready to optimize server data performance in a SAN environment without actually touching the SAN layer.
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
-
V-locity 3 Virtual Platform Disk Optimizer - FREE 30-day trialware
Virtual infrastructures must be dynamic, efficient and above all else, fast because they process the most critical company data. But underlying resource use must be optimized or the platform can slow to a crawl. V-locity 3 brings an unprecedented depth of resource awareness and new technology for peak performance in...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
-
Running Diskeeper and V-locity on SAN Devices
This brief discusses some of the myths and concerns regarding defragmentation on SAN devices. In most cases, a "standard disk defragmenter" should not be run on a SAN device, but Diskeeper and V-locity are not "standard disk defragmenters." They are storage optimizers that contain technology and innovations that are designed...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
-
Windows Defragmenter: Not Good Enough
This brief discusses how the Windows Built-in Disk Defragmenter was originally designed as a band-aid for low active systems and, although it has evolved, Diskeeper and V-locity have evolved leaps and bounds in this same time period to keep up with the ever-evolving technologies, such as Virtualization and the huge...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
-
The Essentials Series: Why You Need to Defragment
Authored by Microsoft MVP Greg Shields, this tech report is a call to arms for Windows administrators, reminding them why defragmenting is so important. Everyone wants better system performance and efficiency. Everyone wants a lower cost of ownership. This report details exactly how an administrator can get it fast.
...Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Setting the record straight: SAN defrag is vital to storage performance
Data volumes continue to grow. More companies are consolidating and virtualizing their IT infrastructures and far more demand is placed on storage performance. But one aspect that often gets overlooked is the role SAN disk defragmenting plays in improving performance. In particular, companies overlook the performance degradation due to file...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
-
Unprecedented System Speed and Efficiency: The NEW technology that will take you there
Achieve greater system speed and efficiency than ever thought possible with a new breakthrough technology that prevents disk fragmentation before it happens.
Every system, every network, every company suffers from the effects of fragmentation. What if it didn't have to? Read about a revolutionary new fragmentation prevention technology, called...Provided By Condusiv Technologies
-
Is Preventing Fragmentation Needed in Today's Environment?
Today the number of files stored on volumes is much greater than in times past. The increase in the number of files not only necessitates larger storage capacities but, due to inherent fragmentation problems, puts a burden on local disk file systems to keep files stored contiguously.
As files...Provided By Condusiv Technologies
-
Best Practices for Eliminating Fragmentation with Modern Storage Technologies
Due to the significant complexity of the software and hardware used in modern storage environments, there are many myths and misconceptions regarding the continuing need for a solution to fragmentation. The fact remains that the disk is the weak link made weaker by fragmentation and it is the last place...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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File Fragmentation, SANs, NAS, and RAID
This paper explains the behavior and benefit of implementing Diskeeper defragmentation software with intricate modern hardware technologies such as RAID, NAS and SANs. SANs, NAS devices, corporate servers, and even high end workstations and multimedia-centric desktops characteristically implement multiple physical disk drives in some form of fault tolerant disk striping...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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Diskeeper 2008 Enterprise Server Performance White Paper
Disk fragmentation can cause a multitude of issues, including both stability and reliability problems. In order to defragment hard drives, many individuals still rely on Microsoft's native defragmentation tool which has a voracious appetite for system resources, and is often run after-hours. Diskeeper Corporation has been developing defragmentation tools for...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
-
Why Native Windows Defragmentation Isn't Enough
Fragmentation has long been known as the hard disks' silent killer. Every year, billions of dollars are spent on IT networks to increase performance and reliability, but improperly managed fragmentation cuts deeply into its effectiveness. Left alone, fragmentation will slow disk reads and writes and ultimately affect the user experience...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
-
System Reliability Gains Achieved by Survey with Diskeeper
Over 300 IT managers evaluate Diskeeper on crucial issues that can make or break a site's viability. Find out what they discovered in real world situations. System longevity, bandwidth, stability, file corruption, hard drive failures and many more issues are examined in detail. Download now!
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
-
Best Practices for using Diskeeper®/V-locity® on Storage Area Networks (SANs)
As high-performing storage solutions based on block protocols (e.g., iSCSI, FC), SANs excel at optimizing block access. SANs work at a storage layer underneath the operating system's file system; usually NTFS when discussing Microsoft Windows?. That dictates that a SAN is unaware of "file" fragmentation and unable to solve this...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
-
Optimizing Virtual Platform Disk Performance
Effective integration of a virtual architecture today has a profound impact on business continuity: Better network efficiency, lower operating costs, and more value from your hardware. However, the underlying shared storage and the nature of virtual resource allocation are sensitive to data storage pitfalls. The problem lies in the fact...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
-
V-locity 3®: Virtual Optimization Realized
While virtualization is tasked to optimize storage efficiency, there has been nothing in place to optimize the NTFS file system's I/O efficiency. As a consequence, I/O bottlenecks develop rapidly in the multi-OS virtual environment and existing physical storage investments consistently fall short of performance expectations. At the same time, inefficient...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
-
24 Technical Considerations for Selecting a Performance Optimization Solution for the Enterprise
The principal purpose of this paper is to compare the enterprise-targeted technologies in the Diskeeper? performance software product line with the basic defragmentation solution offered in Windows' more recent operating system releases.
While built-in "lite" programs may not have a direct licensing cost, they certainly carry an often hidden...Provided By Condusiv Technologies
-
Diskeeper 12: Improving the Performance of SAN Storage
The task of maintaining peak performance is critical for the modern storage administrator. More and more mission-critical applications rely on the shared storage infrastructure for real-time activity, and enterprise-level businesses are graduating live workstations and production servers to SAN systems. Meanwhile, the potential for resource bottlenecks becomes more complicated due...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies