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Case study: NHS Digital, AWS and Privitar

Privitar Helps NHS Digital Improve Health Data Use and Protect Patient Privacy with AWS Helping healthcare organizations do more with patient data, NHS Digital selected Privitar’s de-identification solution to protect patient data and help improve the way that data is used across the NHS and social care. Download our case study to find out how Privitar helps NHS Digital improve healthcare, protect patient privacy, support a tenfold data increase, and expand its services.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Community Hospital Speeds EHR and SQL Applications with V-locity I/O Reduction Software

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. CMC faced two key challenges. Firstly, they needed a FAL remediation (File Attribute List over expansion) solution to ensure 24/7 availability of their MEDITECH electronic health record (EHR) application. Condusiv’s V-locity I/O reduction software was the obvious choice to meet that requirement. Secondarily, CMC’s aging storage infrastructure was having difficulty meeting performance SLAs required by doctors and clinicians who rely on the MEDITECH application for all patient care needs. While turning to V-locity® I/O reduction software for their first challenge, what they didn’t expect was the additional value it provided to their second challenge-- their aging storage infrastructure, enabling CMC to squeeze significantly more performance from their existing systems. As a result, CMC deployed V-locity beyond their MEDITECH servers to improve the performance of all their Tier-1 applications. “Regarding cost savings, the value we receive from V-locity in not having to worry about our MEDITECH systems crashing due to FAL growth is invaluable. It doesn’t take long for downtime to accumulate into hundreds of thousands in lost revenue. However, the real surprise was the performance gains on our heaviest workloads,” said Joe Buckminster, IT Director, Community Medical Center Buckminster continued, “There’s no way we would have achieved a 5 year lifecycle on our storage system without V-locity offloading so much I/O traffic from that subsystem. We had no idea how many I/O operations from virtual server to storage were essentially wasted activity due to Windows write inefficiencies chewing up IOPS or hot data that is more effectively served from available DRAM.”

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Improve Your Ability to Move Talent Around in Your Hospital

Create the gig-economy for healthcare in a post-pandemic labor market Learn how Mercy Hospital Group partnered with Trusted to build the operating system for flexible labor. The combined team began by transforming Mercy’s agency hiring experience, removing burdensome legacy processes and refocusing their technology solution on the core users - clinical hiring & program managers.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Thinking Outside the Box -- How to Dramatically Improve SQL Performance

To give our products a fair evaluation, there are certain best practices we recommend you follow. Now, while it is true most servers already have enough memory and need no adjustments or additions, a select group of high I/O, high performance, or high demand servers, may need a little extra care to run at peak performance. This article is specifically focused on those servers and the best-practice recommendations below for available memory. They are precisely targeted to those “work-horse” servers.  So, rest assured you don’t need to worry about adding tons of memory to your environment for all your other servers.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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A Strategic Reimagining of the Lip Care Space

How EBCO helped a major CPG company develop a product pipeline with the power to invigorate customers in a relatively unexplored category To inspire new thinking within the lip care space, EBCO broadened its research lens to include deep dives into the health, wellness, and beauty categories. EBCO tapped 12 industry experts to help the client stretch their strategic imaginations. EBCO gathered insights from the experts that illuminated consumer behaviors, fringe developments, and emerging ingredients within categories like dental hygiene, Western and Eastern medicine, biotechnology and the microbiome, and the make-up space.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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ASL Cuts Hours From SQL Batch Jobs With V-locity I/O Reduction Software

SQL Batch Imports Dropped from 27 Hours to 12 Hours - a 15 Hour Reduction ASL Marketing’s business is database marketing with millions of records under management that advertising agencies and vendors alike put to use. This database is constantly being appended to and updated to reflect the most current behavioral and demographic data, which is an absolute must for their clients who need immediate access to the most current data at all times. Records were ballooning to the point that the monthly import to the master database exceeded 150 million records and took 27 hours to run the batch job across their SQL servers. Other databases like their college record database needed to be updated once a week and would take 17 hours to complete. As a result, access to the most current data was being delayed by a full day and sometimes two. With data under management exploding, the IT staff was managing to a flat budget and needed to find ways to improve performance without buying expensive new hardware. "Typically, IT professionals respond to application performance issues by reactively buying more hardware. Without the luxury of a padded budget, we needed to find a way to improve performance on the hardware infrastructure we already have," said Ralph Ortiz, IT Manager, ASL Marketing. "I was very doubtful that V-locity could improve my I/O performance through a software-only solution. But with nothing to lose, we evaluated V-locity on our SQL servers and were amazed to see that, literally overnight, we doubled performance and cut our SQL batch job times in half," said Ortiz.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Lawnswood School increases laptop longevity with Diskeeper Professional

After seeing the performance benefits from using Condusiv's V-locity software on their virtual servers, Lawnswood School was able to use the same underlying software technology to extend the life and usability of their workstations and laptops with Condusiv's Diskeeper Professional software. Due to GDPR, Lawnswood School needed to implement data encryption, which would add an additional overhead to the school's workstations and laptops. Noel Reynolds, IT Manager at Lawnswood School said: "We upgraded 150 laptops with SSD storage costing around £120 each, which is a significant investment. I knew from what I had seen the Condusiv software technology achieve in our virtual server estate that they can almost halve the storage I/O traffic that disks need to deal with." "The Diskeeper software not only prevents the write performance from degrading over time when using SSD storage, but by eliminating many of the erase/write cycles during write operations, the usable life of an SSD disk is extended too. If I can increase their longevity by at least 30%, just by installing a lightweight software application, that's a great way to 'sweat the assets' for longer and that in turn decreases the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) too." Noel concluded: "Of course, the 'cherry on top' is that the RAM caching in Diskeeper makes the computers faster too!"

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Windows is Still Windows

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. Fact #2 -- Windows is still Windows whether running in the cloud, on hyperconverged systems, all-flash storage, or all three. No matter where you run Windows and no matter what kind of storage environment you run Windows on, Windows still penalizes optimal performance due to severe write inefficiencies in the hand-off of data to storage. Files are always broken down to be excessively smaller than they need to be. Since each piece means a dedicated I/O operation to process as a write or read, this means an enormous amount of noisy, unnecessary I/O traffic is chewing up precious IOPS, eroding throughput, and causing everything to run slower despite how many IOPS are at your disposal.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Help Identify Your Employees' Needs with Balance

Maintaining mental health has become more important than ever, especially when it comes to keeping your workforce resilient and productive. In fact, research shows that employees who receive support for mental health issues are generally more efficient and more satisfied with their work.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Your Playbook for Turning SASE Strategy Into Real Business Impact

Turn your IT pain into a CxO-approved SASE journey - a proven playbook to win buy-in and lead transformation. Legacy networking and security stacks slow everything down: complexity piles up, risks grow, and the business loses agility. The SASE Champion’s Playbook shows how to turn that mess into clarity - how to talk to executives, align security with business goals, and position SASE not as a cost, but as a transformation. It gives you the exact narrative, steps, and talking points to shift from firefighting to a future-proof, cloud-native security posture.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Increasing VDI Density with V-locity

Many people find themselves in the position of having to quickly increase the number of VDI instances on their existing infrastructure to support remote users.  You may be asking yourself the question: How can I do this without having to roll out a bunch of new hardware? Since VDI operates on the premise that not every instance is active at any one point in time, VDI relies on the ability to over-allocate system resources such as CPU and memory.  The same is generally thought to be acceptable with storage and network.  However, the effect of lots of activity from multiple virtual machines (VDIs) being sent to resources, that are generally much slower than CPU and memory, guarantees that storage, and potentially your network, will become a serious bottleneck at critical times.  This is generally referred to as the I/O Blender Effect. There will be many times during the average workday where the underlying theory of inactivity holds true.  However, there will be LOTS of times when a substantial number of desktops become active at or about the same time.  Now by time, we are not talking about an hour or even just a 10-minute period of time.  We are talking about intervals of milliseconds or at most a few seconds.  Think of that exit ramp from the freeway.  Most of the day there are just a couple of vehicles exiting so waiting for them isn’t a big deal.  But what about during rush hour?  What about when the 3 vehicles in front of you become 50 or 100 or more?  If you’re anything like me the blood pressure rises, and happy times are not upon you.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Powering AI Factories

If the Power Won’t Come to the Data Center, Then the Data Center Must Go to the Power As AI workloads grow more energy-hungry, data centers are relocating to where power is abundant. This shift is giving rise to “AI factories”—high-density compute hubs built near low-cost or stranded energy sources. No longer tied to cities, these next-gen facilities are optimized for energy, not connectivity. With cutting-edge GPUs like NVIDIA’s Blackwell and trillion-parameter models redefining scale, power access is becoming the new priority. Download the full article to discover how this energy-driven evolution is changing infrastructure, markets, and the future of AI.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Telestream Solves MS Exchange Timeouts and Boosts SQL with V-locity I/O Reduction Software

Telestream application performance began to slow over time and users began to timeout from MS Exchange and get disconnected during peak load times. Telestream virtualized 80% of their environment, and everything was running fine for about a year before things began to slow down – particularly with their most I/O intensive applications like MS Exchange, SQL, Jira, and more. However, the biggest pain point for Telestream beyond sluggish application performance was the fact that Exchange users were timing out and getting disconnected from the email server. Telestream was pushing the I/O boundaries of their infrastructure, causing queue depth and latency spikes, which ultimately resulted in users timing out and getting disconnected from Exchange. Telestream had been briefed on Condusiv’s V-locity® I/O reduction software for virtual environments a year prior, but had no need to boost application performance at the time. However, after Telestream began to experience slowdown in their virtual environment, they thought there was no harm in evaluating the software. “As soon as we installed V-locity and saw the Exchange timeouts disappear, and users were no longer getting disconnected from Exchange, that made our purchase of V-locity I/O reduction software a ‘no brainer,’” said Allie McLachlan, Systems Administrator, Telestream. “The most eye-opening experience was finding out how badly our system performance was being taxed by small, fractured, random I/O from Windows write inefficiencies. We would have had no idea that was even an issue without trying V-locity to solve those root cause performance issues.”

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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102 Tips for Managing a Successful Contact Center

From employee engagement to metrics, find advice to inspire you to be a better contact center leader. Have you ever wondered how other contact center leaders approach challenges like flagging CSAT scores, high turnover, or inefficient onboarding? Get tips, insights, and inspiration from our community of contact center professionals!

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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How Flatiron Health Saves 430 Hours Each University Recruiting Season

Learn how Flatiron Health accelerated hiring, created an even playing field for applicants, and optimized hiring team participation in its tech recruiting process. Flatiron Health is a healthcare technology and services company focused on accelerating cancer research and improving patient care. Flatiron uses Codility to find and hire skilled junior developers, often directly out of college. The company found Codility through a search to improve its tech recruiting velocity and hiring results. Hiring stronger programmers, faster, means a growing Flatiron team able to accelerate the fight against cancer.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium