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What Is I/O Reduction Software?

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Input / Output Reduction Software is able to resolve some of the most challenging application performance issues with I/O intensive systems such as MS-SQL and many more. There are a number of I/O inefficiencies that exist in Virtualized Environments and generate a large proportion of traffic which serves to overuse storage IOPS and generally cause a drain on performance.

How Can I/O Reduction Software Help?

Condusiv I/O is a global leader in the I/O reduction software space. Towards the end of 2017, Microsoft announced that Conducive was the very first software vendor to be certified for their MS-SQL server I/O reliability. In addition to this, in 2018, Conducive was also named as one of the top ten best performing VMWare solution providers, and they have gained a global status from the vendor as being an elite VMWare partner. This puts them firmly in place as a best-of-breed vendor in terms of their overall product offering, integrity, and reliability. Their accreditations, achievements, and countless awards are far-reaching and have been cited as a testament to the core patented technology solutions, such as is the case with their Condusiv I/O reduction software which essentially offloads Input and Output from the underpinning storage and streamlines any remaining I/O traffic in order to resolve challenging application issues.

When utilized, Input / Output Reduction Software can help organizations to instantly reclaim anything from between 30-40% of their storage IOPS. In some circumstances, it is possible to offload up to 50% of the current I/O traffic volumes from the storage, delivering potentially huge performance gains.

Because Condusiv I/O Reduction Software works to allocate a small amount of extra memory on the key systems, it can result in a more significant advantage for ERP, Oracle, EHR, VDI, BI Applications, SharePoint File Servers, MS-SQP workloads, Exchange, CRM, Back-Up, and much more.

In terms of improving the performance of a VM, Condusiv I/O reduction software addresses two very important problems that can severely impact VM performance. While many people might consider upgrading the backend storage, which is costly; this should only really occur a greater capacity is needed, and not for the case of improving performance.

Across the industry, with VMs, people are accustomed to simply paying out for upgrades in order to improve their performance levels. However, with Condusiv I/O reduction software, this is not needed. While it depends greatly on the individual organization, and the environments they run, a performance boost isn’t generally needed for each and every application, it is usually just a handful of applications that require a boost in their performance.

Paying for and installing a new hybrid array or an all-flash array are the most disruptive and costly ways to handle performance issues in virtualized environments. However, with Condusiv I/O reduction software, the cost and the hassle that is so often linked with this option is completely negated, and performance is boosted in almost all cases, by at least 50%.

While virtualization is and has always been a great way to forge server efficiencies in any organization, the major pitfall of this is how it adds greater complexities to the data path. In addition to this as many of you who are reading this post will understand, Windows does not have a good reputation for playing well in environments that are virtualized, or indeed, where it is abstracted from the core physical layers. Because of this, the Input / Output elements are smaller, they are more fractured, and they are a lot more random than they need to be. All of this combined equals poor storage performance.

Because of this, systems are having to process workloads at a speed that is around 40-50% lower than they should be.

With Condusiv I/O reduction software, this problem is remedied. It displaces the countless small reads and writes with bigger, cleaner contiguous reads and writes. This helps core organizational applications to be able to run much more smoothly.

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What Are the Key Features of I/O Reduction Software?

Condusiv I/O Reduction Software can be set-up and left to its everyday work. It can be set-up on physical servers, on Windows VMs or any other Virtual Server. Once in place, it will run automatically in the background with a near to nothing overhead on the server itself. Because it only requires a very small CPU cycle that is required to run at a very low priority, it will not disrupt any of the other normal server operations in such an instance where the CPU cycles might be needed by other applications.

  • Works in complex virtualized environments
  • Rapid solution deployment
  • Continuous performance validation
  • Easy licensing
  • Simplified asset management over a broad range of environments and locations
  • Available in a range of licensing models such as perpetual, enterprise, and subscription-based

In the hand-off of the data process that takes place between the any underpinning storage and the Windows O/S, it virtually eliminates any sever inefficiencies which could be caused by random writes and reads that would usually hamper the performance. By giving Windows the right intelligence for it to be able to write clean contiguous files that are large in size, in real-time, this ensures that the maximum payload is carried with each and every Input / Output operation in order to enhance and optimize the storage performance.

Another key feature of the Condusiv I/O Reduction Software is that is will further lessen Input / Output storage with a secondary DRAM read caching engine. This will serve hot reads from any available but idle DRAM. Due to the fact that there are moment-to-moment adjustments, there is no requirement for anything to be allocated for the cache; this also ensures that there are no issues with memory contention.

It is easy to see the benefits and value that is delivered by the Condusiv I/O Reduction Software from the viewpoint of either a singular or group of VMs. This is done by displaying the overall percentage of read and write traffic that is offloaded from storage, along with the amount of I/O time that has been saved as a result of the process, and finally, the sum total of I/O’s that have been offloaded from the storage.

System Administrators will be able to see the total and overall Input / Output capacity that results from the elimination of any associated inefficiencies and exactly what has been given back to the storage subsystem, they will be able to see exactly how much time this process has saved, and more importantly, they will be able to identify any core systems that would be able to additionally benefit from the Condusiv I/O Reduction Software caching engine by boosting their memory by even just a small amount.

Why Do You Need I/O Reduction Software?

You can use Condusiv I/O Reduction Software to help you resolve a number of application performance issues on your virtual servers which can sap away the bandwidth and impact the spindle and flash storage systems.

This type of I/O reduction software solves a very pertinent issue that exists with clean and large volume contiguous writes and reads. The resulting factor, and why people with VMs need to get Condusiv I/O Reduction Software is that there is a provision of a better payload that is provided with every Input / Output operation. Aside from this, I/O to storage is also reduced by utilizing the available DRAM to cache any hot reads.

There is no need to assign anything to the cache because the of the Condusiv I/O Reduction Software will adjust automatically to the real-time utilization.

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Is Condusiv I/O Reduction Software Right for You?

This type of solution is suited towards virtualized organizations who run highly intensified Input / Output workloads as it scales effortlessly with any workload intensity. The resulting factor for your organization means that it can be utilized for EMR/EHR, OLTP, BI APPS, ERP, SAP, MEDITECH, VDI, ORACLE, SQL, EXCHANGE, SHAREPOINT, BACKUP, FILE SERVERS, CRM, and so much more.

The deployment and ongoing management of the Condusiv I/O Reduction Software in either an on-premise or cloud situation, in either a physical or virtual environment is easy and effective with a highly intuitive web-based management console. From here, a person is able to manage and centrally control all of the licensing, configurations, assets, and overall performance management. Deployment to thousands of servers can occur in a couple of clicks which makes it ideal for situations where flexibility and scalability are key.

Condusiv I/O Reduction Software is right for your back-office reporting, your batch jobs that typically take time to complete, along with any client-facing applications that might underperform when their load / usage peaks at busy processing times.

It will instantly boost the efficiency and speed of these applications and processes without being overly expensive to run. Furthermore, it will not cause any disruption to your normal performance. Because there are zero-overheads in terms of system usage, there are no other implications to compute resources to consider.

In terms of proving its value back to the organization, because it is possible to see exactly how much time has been saved by the installation on the product dashboard, you can easily demonstrate the return on investment from the Condusiv I/O Reduction Software within any organization or environment.

Another couple of very compelling tools that are available for any Condusiv I/O Reduction Software installations, and which can also serve in helping you to know if Condusiv I/O Reduction Software is right for your organization is an I/O Assessment tool or the free trial installation that is usually available for either a 14 or a 30-day period.

If you do not know exactly which, or how many systems are affected with current I/O issues, the I/O assessment tool can help you to learn in advance which systems could have the potential to be improved by Condusiv I/O Reduction Software.

It is suited to small, medium, and enterprise level organizations and due to the flexibility offered in the licensing model, it proves time and time again to be a highly affordable solution that deliver tangible and measurable benefits across organizations of all sizes.

As the explosion and dominance of data continues to increase, and the overall density of VMs is growing, IT professionals face the constant and continual challenge of having to deal with finding ways to optimize the performance of their VMs at as low a cost as possible. Condusiv I/O Reduction Software is a proven way to deliver such results and comes with a highly demonstrable ROI.

About Condusiv Technologies

As an award-winning software company, Condusiv Technologies is a global powerhouse that offers various software solutions that address performance issues for both physical and virtualized server environments. Their software only solutions enable organizations to process more information, more quickly, for better application performance.  They guarantee their partners to be able to resolve the most challenging of application performance issues. Their products are utilized by an impressive 90% of Fortune 1000 companies, and almost 75% of the Forbes Global 100 organizations; helping them lower their data center costs, boost their systems productivity, and extending the life of their hardware investments.

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