Over the past several years we have seen an aggressive advancement in technology as it relates to the products and services offered by companies. These companies are committed to the continuous development as they know their customers and clients are constantly demanding the products and services that give them the most for their money. Items like cell phones have gone from a device used to make calls to a portable office that enables individuals to conduct their business anywhere in the world.
This leap forward has been made possible because of that commitment to meet the demands of the customers and clients and while companies readily invest in this area of their business they all too often ignore or overlook the need to advance the technology that drives their sales. It may sound odd but some of the companies that are on the cutting edge of technology also happen to be rooted in an inefficient and wasteful manner of managing their information.
Whether it’s simply ignoring the reality or just overlooking the facts many companies continue to utilize multiple server environments that can paralyze their business. While these companies may be introducing new products today the chances of them finding shelf space for a next generation is unlikely. This is true because these multiple server environments are like a weight that continues to get heavier, holding a company back from becoming more efficient and productive while wasting a considerable amount of money in the process.
Rather than continue down this path many companies are adopting virtualization platforms as a means of managing their information and in so doing they are cutting costs while improving productivity. Virtualization enables companies to place all of their operating systems, applications, and other information on a single physical machine rather than spreading it across multiple servers. From this one physical machine different virtual computers, which share the resources of that physical machine, can access the operating systems and applications at different times. This simple step has a dramatic effect on how companies operate and allows them to dedicate more time to innovation and development, the areas that will keep their business viable in the future.
Innovation and development are a luxury in multiple server environments because IT admins spend the majority of their time maintaining the information spread across different machines. Basic tasks like updates, recoveries, archiving, and backups are a timely process because each server has to be addressed individually. This isn’t the case with virtualization, with all of that information on a physical machine IT admins can quickly manage their tasks and turn their attention to creating new methods of driving business.
There is also a substantial cost associated with multiple server environments as companies pay out a lot of money for the machines. Making matters worse, these servers are underutilized as most host a single operating system or application. This takes just a fraction of the servers storage capacity, leaving a lot of space wasted. Of course just keeping those servers on can be an expensive endeavor regardless of how much storage space is being used.
With virtualization the physical machine maximizes its storage capabilities and does so in a safe and secure manner, placing each of the operating systems and applications in their own protected environment. What this does is ensure that if there was a problem with one it wouldn’t affect the others.
Virtualization has made it possible for companies to actually operate more efficiently and productively in a financial environment that is claiming a lot of businesses. Companies have to recognize that continuing along the same path will only jeopardize their prospects of a brighter future.
While virtualization offers that brighter future it doesn’t just appear, companies must make certain that their virtualization infrastructure is performing at its peak level. There are issues that could prevent this from happening, issues like I/O bandwidth bottlenecks 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, resulting in free space being wasted.
To prevent these issues on virtualization platforms companies should always install virtualization software, a quick solution that provides lasting results. Virtualization software like V-locity, made by Diskeeper Corporation, is capable of maintaining the integrity of virtualization platforms and preventing those dangerous issues from ever arising.
Acting as a virtual disk optimizer, V-locity delivers background optimization which in turn improves the operability and functionality of the virtualization platform. What this means is that V-locity is capable of eliminating the issues that could cause problems for a virtualization infrastructure, tackling the bottleneck issue by creating a faster and more efficient computing platform for new consolidation and provisioning initiatives without the need to add additional hardware, eliminate competition for shared I/O resources by coordinating resource usage, and solve the virtual disk “bloat” problem by compacting the virtual disk, thereby preventing waste and allowing IT managers to better allocate their virtual storage resources.
For any company that is dedicated to advancing the technology behind their products and services the same efforts are needed within their own infrastructure. Making sure their information is being managed properly is an integral component in innovation and development and virtualization is the answer. With a virtualization infrastructure in place all that’s left to do is protect that environment and V-locity is more than up to the task.
