As
many businesses evolve they find that the technology that once provided
them with the necessary functionality to grow no longer fills their
needs and
can actually prevent future success. Recognizing the role that
technology plays in the continued development of business many companies
have turned to virtualization as a solution, enabling them to run
different operating systems and multiple applications
on the same physical computer.
This
approach to managing information offers companies a number of
advantages including improved efficiency, cost-savings, more time for
development and
innovation as well as increased availability of IT resources, and
advanced security of data.
Because
virtualization enables companies to consolidate their hardware, making
it possible to run a number of virtual machines on a single physical
machine,
a great deal of time can be saved by eliminating the cumbersome process
of moving between operating systems positioned on individual machines.
Alongside
improved efficiency virtualization also reduces operating costs, an
attribute that every company can appreciate. Costs are reduced simply
because
companies that manage multiple servers can now run a number of
applications from one physical machine, cutting the expenses associated
with powering unnecessary servers as well as maintaining those servers.
As is often the case companies usually carry more
servers than they need and those servers operate at a fraction of their
capacity, with virtualization this waste is eliminated.
By
reducing the number of servers a company instantly frees up their IT
admins from the time-consuming task of managing and maintaining those
machines. What
virtualization allows a company to do is
move
workloads from one virtual workspace to another, making it easier to
identify their business objectives and get the most out of their server
resources. When a company
finally breaks away from the old way of doing things and they’ll find
that the money they once allocated to management and maintenance can be
directed to innovation and development of business.
Virtualization
can also provide better security for a company’s information,
minimizing the possibilities of outages and crashes as well as
protecting information
from being lost or becoming inaccessible.
While virtualization offers a host of benefits that doesn’t mean a company can just ignore their new technology. Virtualization is capable of handling a wealth of information and because of this it is susceptible to a few problems including, I/O bandwidth bottlenecks fast due to accelerated fragmentation on virtual platforms, virtual machine competition for shared I/O resources not effectively being prioritized across the platform, and virtual disks set to dynamically grow do not resize when data is deleted. Instead free space is wasted.
In order to protect and maximize
virtualization
performance every company should ensure they have a virtual platform
disk optimizer, one that is capable of not only performing
defragmentation functions but also synchronizing the ongoing activity
between host and multiple guest operating systems in a virtualized
environment. This
solution is the focal point of V-locity, the software introduced by
Diskeeper that ensures a company’s virtualization platform remains
efficient and capable of handling the demands of any business.
Companies like Diskeeper have been creating solutions to the problems associated with virtualization and with their products a company can quickly find that the technology they need to grow their business is fully capable of putting them on the path to a bright future.
