Limit wasteful spending and grow your business by increasing the efficiency of your business management system

Companies have two main goals; they must limit their operating costs while growing their business. It can be challenging to expand a business into a new market or develop new products without increasing their budget, even if they may not see immediate returns. The effort to balance these needs can often lead to bad decisions being made that might look good initially, but ultimately hurt the company. Companies can avoid these decisions by examining their infrastructure and business management system.

The managements systems that companies rely on can actually halt productivity and contribute to wasteful spending and wasted time. In multiple server environments are perfect examples of ways in which companies can save money by looking closely at how they operate.

In multiple server environments companies put their operating systems and applications on different server that must each be maintained by IT administrators. Each individual server must be maintained, backed up and updated by the administrator. Because the processes are time consuming and must be repeated on each individual machine the admins cannot use their time in more productive ways.

Multiple server environments also create costs in the physical tools necessary. Purchasing the machines, maintaining the machines and housing the machines are all expensive. Spending money in these areas keeps it from going to other departments that can use it to grow. The lack of funding can result in lowered company moral and even limit the brand’s potential.

Cutting spending is a temporary solution to this problem. It may keep the bottom line looking good short term, but it does not fix the problem in the long run. As long as the same flawed system is used the problem will continue to arise. Many companies are finding the long term solution by switching to a virtualization infrastructure.

Virtualization infrastructures let companies condense the information that they have stored. Operating systems and applications are all housed on a single machine. The information can then be accessed by different virtual computers that share the resources maintained in the single server. This makes the practice of purchasing, storing and maintaining multiple servers obsolete and lets IT admins focus their time on more productive areas.

Virtualization offers the same security that companies receive in multiple server environments. Different operating systems and applications are housed in their own secure areas. If something happens to one area, the others remain safe and intact.

Once a company switches to virtualization infrastructure they must protect the system from being harmed. If a system does not have proper protection they can experience I/O bandwidth bottlenecks from accelerated fragmentation, virtual machine competition for shared I/O resources not being prioritized properly across the platform and virtual disks set to dynamically grow not resizing when data is deleted.

Luckily protecting a virtualization infrastructure does not come with a huge cost or large time commitment. A company simply needs to install virtualization software on their system. Virtualization software like V-locity from Diskeeper Corporation prevents the problems that are associated with virtualization from happening. V-locity delivers background optimization that will improve the functionality and operability of the infrastructure by acting as a virtual disk optimizer.

V-locity stops bottleneck issues by making a fast and efficient computing platform for new consolidation and provisioning initiatives without creating the need for new hardware. The software coordinates resource usage to eliminate competition for I/O resources and will compact virtual disk space and prevents disk “bloat.” Preventing these issues will keep the IT admins free to focus on more pressing matters.

With a virtualization infrastructure protected with virtualization software companies no longer have to use temporary solutions to reach their goals. Creating a long term solution to the problems that multiple server environments create allows companies to accurately plan for the future.