Many administrators believe fragmentation is a problem that has gone away, but the truth is this: it’s a bigger issue today than ever...

When you installed a SAN you thought that you would improve your reliability, performance, availability and provisioning...

The Last Thing You Need is More Work The marriage of Storage Area Networks (SANs) and virtual machines is a match made in heaven...

Troubleshooting can occupy many valuable hours of IT time—and many might very well be overlooking the actual problem: file fragmentation...

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There’s nothing like having to replace something before it’s time When a car, for example, starts breaking down four years after purchase, the owner unexpectedly has to pull together the financing for another vehicle and go through the painful lease or purchase process...

A SAN still consists of disk drives Fragmentation is still very much a performance-crippling problem on those drives, and just because it got moved off the network does not mean that it isn’t there...