Virtualization Platforms Enhanced by Virtualization Software Offer Companies Greatest Opportunity for Innovation and Development

As the demand for more efficient and productive methods of operating business continue to grow every company is facing added pressures to implement the necessary changes that will keep them one step ahead of their competition. Of course right alongside the pressure to become more efficient and productive is the added difficulty of doing so on a tight budget, making it essential that whatever changes are made not only promote organization but are cost-effective as well.

Implementing a solution to this problem often requires a shift in how a company operates and there can be no greater shift for a company than a transition from a multiple server environment to a virtualization platform. It’s a shift from a cumbersome and unreliable manner of operating a business to a more flexible and proficient system that supports growth and innovation.

Many companies don’t realize just how much time and money they waste on maintaining a multiple server environment for their business. IT admins can spend the majority of their time simply keeping the servers functional as they dedicate hours to basic tasks like updates, recoveries, archiving, and backups. Because IT is spending so much time on maintaining a multiple server environment there is little time for development, meaning a company’s business can quickly become stagnant which ultimately means falling behind the competition.

It’s easy to see how IT admins can be wrapped up in the mundane exercise of maintaining a multiple server environment when that environment is understood. In a multiple server environment a company’s information is spread across a number of servers, placing operating systems, applications, and other information on their own machines. Placing them on separate servers means they have to be addressed separately, making it necessary for IT admins to spend those hours on the basic tasks.

The idea behind spreading this information across multiple servers is it bolsters security, by distributing this information on a number of machines a company may minimize the damage caused by a server crash, something that could cause extensive damage if all the information was stored on a single server. If there was no alternative to this practice then it may be a cost that every company would consider necessary but virtualization platforms are capable of providing the same level of security while actually eliminating the mounting costs of operating a multiple server environment.

Virtualization platforms make it possible for a company to store all of their information on a single physical machine and from that machine different virtual computers, which share the resources of that physical machine, can access the operating systems and applications at different times. With all of this information on one physical machine IT can easily handle the basic tasks of maintenance and because these different operating systems, applications and other information are stored in separate and secure areas of the physical machine there is no danger of a crash wiping out everything.

By freeing IT admins from the grind of a multiple server environment a company opens the door to innovation and development, allowing IT to take an active role in establishing methods of growing business rather than simply caretaking.

At the end of the day the move from a multiple server environment to a virtualization platform is about becoming more efficient and productive while eliminating wasted dollars.

While virtualization offers that opportunity to become more efficient and productive while saving a company considerable amounts of money the virtualization infrastructure must be performing at its best to ensure maximum return. 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.

These issues can compromise a company’s operability; fortunately the solution requires nothing more than the installation of virtualization software. 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.

V-locity acts as a virtual disk optimizer, delivering background optimization which serves to improve the operability and functionality of the company’s virtualization platform. What this virtual disk optimization does is eliminate 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.

In business it is often the companies who adapt to change and adopt the new technology that promotes efficiency and productivity who thrive. Virtualization platforms represent this technology and virtualization software is every company’s guarantee that their shift in operations is protected and remains healthy.