That's a lot of overhead to the physical server and a lot of unnecessary IOPS to the SAN considering it would have taken just one or two I/O operations to move the same amount of data if Diskeeper 15 Server was being used to prevent fragmentation at the logical disk layer," said Morin.Īccording to Steve Taylor, CTO at Plan B Technologies in Bowie MD, "Considering that fragmentation dampens the performance of mission-critical applications by 25% or more, Diskeeper 15 Server's list price of $399.95 per server makes it a 'no-brainer' for our customer base. If Windows sees a file existing as 20 separate pieces at the logical layer, that means the physical server and SAN storage device will execute 20 separate I/O operations to process the file. While SAN technologies certainly help at the physical disk layer, it does nothing to address fragmentation at the logical disk layer. "There is a misconception among storage administrators that their SAN storage device is eradicating fragmentation for them because they aren't familiar with fragmentation at the logical disk layer outside the SAN. This is the primary reason SAN storage performance degrades over time. While modern RAID controllers do a good job of managing data at the physical disk layer, which certainly helps in the fight against file fragmentation, it falls short in that it does nothing about fragmentation at the logical software layer that Windows sees. That's not a small number considering there are over five million physical servers in production across North America and EMEA," said Brian Morin, SVP, Global Marketing, Condusiv Technologies. As much as Condusiv offers a robust software solution to accelerate virtual environments, the fact remains that some of the most mission-critical applications still run on physical servers. Performance-robbing file fragmentation affects SAN storage equally as much as it affects server local storage or direct-attached storage. "Even with over 45 million Diskeeper licenses sold, Condusiv is not sitting still in regard to addressing performance-robbing fragmentation wherever it appears in the data center. BURBANK, CA -(Marketwired - March 18, 2015) - Condusiv Technologies, the leader in I/O reduction software for virtual and physical server environments, today announced the release of Diskeeper 15 Server, highlighting an industry-first fragmentation prevention solution for SAN storage systems connected to physical servers to keep both servers and storage running like new.
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