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5 Things Your Current Cleaner Should NOT Be Doing

When you are serious about a clean facility, look to Anago of Oklahoma City. Keeping your facility clean and your employees and customer safe is a serious task. There are so many challenges we see when visiting a new facility in how he current provider is performing the cleaning. In many cases, there is no true cleaning, only spreading of contaminants from one place to the next. We are serious about cleaning and design a customized scope of work that suites your building and your environment.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Cultech Limited Solves ERP and SQL Troubles with Diskeeper 18 Server

Cultech spent months troubleshooting issues related to their Sage ERP with a MS-SQL back end. Cultech turned to Condusiv’s Diskeeper 18 Server to solve issues related to Windows write inefficiencies. Cultech Limited relied on their Sage ERP with MS-SQL back end to run their business handling tasks from orders to logistics and everything in between. However, when Rob Fell, IT Manager, joined Cultech, the responsibility of “fixing the buggy system” fell to his domain, he found himself rebooting servers and calling Sage support daily to fix system “hiccups.” By upgrading the network and ripping-and-replacing their ERP and SQL servers, Rob hoped their ERP issues would go away. “We were running a very demanding ERP system on legacy servers and network. A hardware refresh was the first step in troubleshooting our issues. As much as we did see some improvement, it did not solve the daily breakdowns associated with our Sage ERP,” said Rob. “I was on support calls with Sage literally day and night to solve issues that occurred daily. Files would not write properly to the database, and I would have to go through the tedious process of getting all users to log-out of Sage then manually correct the problem – a 25-min exercise. That might not be a big deal every so often, but I found myself doing this 3-4 times a day at times,” said Rob. Rob discovered Condusiv’s Diskeeper® Server that guarantees to solve Windows performance issues and other problems associated with file fragmentation. After reading customer testimonials on how Diskeeper solved similar problems he was facing, he was eager to give it a try. Condusiv’s Diskeeper 18 (Diskeeper Server for physical servers and Diskeeper Professional for PCs) is “set and forget” software that runs transparently in the background on Windows servers (and PCs) and automatically offloads I/O traffic from underlying SSD or HDD storage, then streamlines the remaining I/O traffic that remains. All of this is done with near-zero overhead to the CPU. Rob installed Diskeeper Server and within 24-hours, all the Sage ERP hiccups and crashes disappeared. Read the full story!

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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University of Illinois Doubles SQL and Oracle Performance on All-Flash Arrays with V-locity® Throughput Acceleration Software

The University of Illinois, had already deployed an all-flash Dell Compellent storage array to support their hardest hitting application, AssetWorks AiM, that runs on Oracle. After a year in service, performance began to erode due to growth in users and overall workload. Other hard-hitting MS-SQL applications supported by hybrid arrays were suffering performance degradation as well. The one common denominator is that all these applications ran on Windows servers – Windows Server 2012R2. “As we learned through this exercise with Condusiv’s V-locity I/O reduction software, we were getting hit really hard by thousands of excessively small, tiny writes and reads that dampened performance significantly,” said Greg Landes, Manager of Systems Services. “Everything was just slower due to Windows Server write inefficiencies that break writes down to be much smaller than they need to be, and forces the all-flash SAN to process far more I/O operations than necessary for any given workload.” Landes continued, “When you have a dump truck but are only filling it a shovelful at a time before sending it on, you’re not getting near the payload you should get with each trip. That’s the exact effect we were getting with a surplus of unnecessarily small, fractured writes and subsequent reads, and it was really hurting our storage performance, even though we had a really fast ‘dump truck.’ We had no idea how much this was hurting us until we tried V-locity to address the root-cause problem to get more payload with every write. When you no longer have to process three small, fractured writes for something that only needs one write and a single I/O operation, everything is just faster.” Read the full story of how University of Illinois saw 2X faster SQL and Oracle.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Get Notified When Registration Opens for #MSPSummit 2025

MSP Summit, happening September 15-17, 2025 at the Loews Royal Pacific in Orlando, FL. Fill out the form below to get event updates, be the first to know when registration opens, and receive a special discount on your pass.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Creative Office Pavilion Design Firm Deploys V-locity® Acceleration Software for 90% Faster SQL, CRM and Email

Poor application performance was impacting every business unit, causing user complaints of excessive lag, email problems, and slow query times. Creative Office Pavilion comprises a team of designers, architects, and project managers who work with massive drawings, PowerPoints, and database files. When application latency began to plague IT, the team needed a seamless solution to get business back on track— delivering the best possible experience to their users, with applications running at peak performance. According to Robert Del Vecchio, IT Infrastructure Manager, his primary challenge was to “get data to his users quicker, without sluggishness.” Robert and the team were spending a disproportionate amount of time on server and storage health checks. “We were spending so much time troubleshooting, there was little time left for R&D or discovering new technologies,” he explains. Finding V-locity was a “happy accident,” according to Robert—the result of searching online for SQL and application performance. After evaluating V-locity in a test environment, Robert’s team saw immediate improvement. “Not only did we see performance increase right away, I was no longer running to every server doing health checks constantly.” “To top it off,” he adds, “running V-locity was seamless. I just checked the logs occasionally to make sure it was doing what it should, and that was it.” After testing, Robert and team were convinced. “We deployed V-locity on every server in our VMware cluster to maintain the SAN because of the amount of traffic we have.” He continues, “We’re not a gigantic enterprise, but we’re big enough that we need this technology to keep us up and running efficiently.” Creative Office Pavilion has been running V-locity over a year, giving Robert more than sufficient time to observe not only its impact on application and storage performance, but on deferring investment in additional hardware.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Proactive IT Monitoring

Proactive monitoring includes incident, change and problem management in addition to monitoring. Chapter five from the Command Center Handbook provides guidance on these functions as well as importants "Do's" and "Don'ts" based on best practices from the most demanding 24x7 environments in the world.

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Managing 3rd Party Risk In Business Operations

Are You Managing 3rd Party Risk For Your Business? As financial institutions continue to face greater threat to cybersecurity attacks, the increased focus around “What to do when” also becomes a greater concern for executives, managers and everyone concerned. The importance of leveraging vendors to outsource products and services continues to grow, as companies leverage the expertise and economies of third parties. While this frees up resources to focus on more strategic priorities and often results in cost savings, companies cannot forget the importance of selecting and partnering with secure vendors. We have all heard the horror stories of company breaches caused by vulnerabilities in third-party environments. These vulnerabilities can provide an opportunity for threat actors to interrupt business operations or steal critical company and customer information.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Managing 3rd Party Risk For Financial Services

Are You Managing 3rd Party Risk For Your Financial Institution? As financial institutions continue to face greater threat to cybersecurity attacks, the increased focus around “What to do when�?�” also becomes a greater concern for executives, managers and everyone concerned. The importance of leveraging vendors to outsource products and services continues to grow, as companies leverage the expertise and economies of third parties. While this frees up resources to focus on more strategic priorities and often results in cost savings, companies cannot forget the importance of selecting and partnering with secure vendors. We have all heard the horror stories of company breaches These vulnerabilities can provide an opportunity for threat actors to interrupt business operations or steal critical company and customer information.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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How To Get The Most Out Of Your Flash Storage Or Move To Cloud

You just went out and upgraded your storage to all-flash. Or, maybe you have moved your systems to the cloud where you can choose the SLA to get the performance you want. We can provide you with a secret weapon that will make you continue to look like a hero and get the real performance you made these choices for. Let’s start with why you made those choices to start with. Why did you make the change? Why not just upgrade the aging storage to a new-gen HDD or hybrid storage subsystem? After all, if you’re like most of us, you’re still experiencing explosive growth in data and HDDs continue to be more cost-effective for whatever data requirements you’re going to need in the future. If you went to all-flash, perhaps it was the decreasing cost that made it more approachable from a budgetary point of view and the obvious gain in speed made it easy to justify. If it was a move to the cloud, there may have been many reasons including: So, what can Diskeeper® and V-locity® do to help make these even better choices to provide the expected performance results at peak times when needed most?

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Top Takeaways from Enterprise Connect 2025

Enterprise Connect 2025 is in the books, and once again, attendees and exhibitors engaged on the most important issues facing enterprise IT/communications/CX technology. This e-book provides you with a snapshot of some of the critical issues and challenges that dominated discussion in the session rooms and hallways, and on the show floor. We offer it to give you a glimpse of the depth and breadth of industry analysis, expertise, and progress we witnessed at Enterprise Connect. If you couldn’t join us in Orlando, or if you attended but couldn’t see everything, we hope this e-book will help get you up to speed on the state of the industry. And in either case, we hope you start making plans now to join us next year, March 10 – 12, 2026, in Las Vegas, for Enterprise Connect 2026!

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Six Best Practices to Improve SQL Query Performance

7 out of 10 Condusiv customers come to us because they are experiencing SQL performance issues and user complaints. MS SQL Server is the world’s leading RDMS and has plentiful benefits and features that empower its efficient operation. As with any such robust platform, however—especially one which has matured as SQL Server has—there have been best practices evolved that allow for its best performance. For any company utilizing it, Microsoft SQL Server is central to a company’s management and storage of information. In business, time is money, so any company that relies on information to function (and in this digital age that would be pretty much all of them) needs access to that information as rapidly as possible. In that information is often obtained from databases through queries, optimizing SQL query performance is vital. As 7 out of 10 Condusiv customers come to us because they were experiencing SQL performance issues and user complaints, we have amassed a great deal of experience on this topic and would like to share. We have done extensive work in eliminating I/O inefficiencies and streamlining I/O for optimum performance. It is especially important in SQL to reduce the number of random and “noisy” I/Os as they can be quite problematic. We will cover this as well as some additional best practices. Some of these practices may be more time-consuming, and may even require a SQL consultant, and some are easy to solve.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Managing 3rd Party Risk For Health Care Organizations

Are You Managing 3rd Party Risk For Your Financial Institution? As financial institutions continue to face greater threat to cybersecurity attacks, the increased focus around “What to do when” also becomes a greater concern for executives, managers and everyone concerned. The importance of leveraging vendors to outsource products and services continues to grow, as companies leverage the expertise and economies of third parties. While this frees up resources to focus on more strategic priorities and often results in cost savings, companies cannot forget the importance of selecting and partnering with secure vendors. We have all heard the horror stories of company breaches caused by vulnerabilities in third-party environments. These vulnerabilities can provide an opportunity for threat actors to interrupt business operations or steal critical company and customer information.

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Case Management Solutions Turns to V-locity I/O Reduction Software to Solve Slow MS-SQL Performance

Users complained of sluggish MS-SQL performance and expensive fork-lift upgrades to all-flash was not an option. Case Management Solutions' most mission critical and I/O-intensive application sat on top of an MS-SQL database and had become notoriously slow over time. Files with as many as 500 pages for a particular client would need to be processed to or from their NAS storage, and stole far too much time from employee productivity due to sitting and waiting for it to complete. They turned to their value-added reseller, Dealflow, for an answer that wouldn’t break their budget. “After we completed the server upgrades, we installed Condusiv’s I/O reduction software. After just one week, the software eliminated over 1 million I/O operations from being served from storage and Case Management Solutions saw exactly the kind of performance they were hoping to see. Even their backup times dropped,” said Lee Owens, VP of Sales, Dealflow. “Query times improved by 4X. Employees no longer had to wait to login or process files, and no longer experienced delays when going from page to page within the app. Instead of watching all 50 pages count up before printing, it’s almost instantaneous,” said Hal Brooks, Managing Partner, Case Management Solutions. “From our perspective, when Condusiv says they guarantee to fix application performance issues on Windows servers, that’s exactly what they do. We can attest to everything they claim as being true. It has helped all of our customers remove sluggishness from their most important applications,” said Owens. Owens continued, “Once they put V-locity into play, the only thing they are upset about is not doing it earlier.”

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Breaking Down Silos: Building Correlated Data Platforms for Security and Observability

How Financial Organizations are Reinventing Cyber Defense with AI-Powered Security. Financial institutions are turning to AI to unify security and observability data to improve visibility and enhance resilience across the enterprise. See how the Splunk and AWS partnership provides the visibility and security foundation essential for modernizing and consolidating your financial services infrastructure.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium

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Improved Longevity of Hard Drives at MB Financial Bank

The use of Diskeeper for most of the past decade has resulted in quantifiable ROI, ongoing savings to MB, and has helped the IT team to focus on other areas associated with the company’s strategic growth. MB Financial Bank was an early adopter of automatic disk defragmentation, and has been a Condusiv customer since 2002. Their original evaluation was based on the idea that fragmentation slows down system performance and incurs excessive wear and tear on the drive. Delivering proactive technology solutions that benefit the business bottom line is the responsibility of Mike Macikanycz, Vice-President of Information Technology and Senior Technical Lead at MB. He’s convinced a proactive approach to IT in general has resulted in smoother sailing for the organization. That “general approach” includes the area of file fragmentation. “Diskeeper® performance software works so well we just take it for granted,” noted Mike. With Diskeeper in use for over eight years, “we haven’t been faced with the challenges that probably prompt companies to look into disk defragmentation utilities to solve their problems.” Ensuring fragmentation never impacted the ability of MB to service their customers from the get-go all falls in line with the MB IT team’s forward thinking, contributes to the company’s success and allows them to focus their attention on other IT projects. IT benefits as well with Diskeeper’s trademarked “Set It and Forget It”® solution. The IT staff is convinced that because they’ve always used Diskeeper, they have less problems and issues than they would without it. Download the full case study to find out more about the services that MB provides, their environment, and how they have benefited from Diskeeper.

Jun 17, 2026 8 min read Premium