Stop wasting resources and increase operating efficiency by switching to a virtualization infrastructure

One of the hardest things for a company to do is limit wasteful spending. It can be very hard to determine what expenses are necessary to continue business operations and what expenses are not getting the expected return on investment. Trying to effectively cut spending can lead to bad decisions that look good at the time but hurt the company over time. Companies can avoid making these decisions by examining their business management systems and determining ways to continually save money.

Multiple server environments are an example of ways that companies spend extra money that they do not need to. Management systems like these can actually slow operations and create inefficient use of time amongst employees in the company.

In multiple server environments companies put their operating systems and applications on different servers that must each be maintained by IT administrators. Each physical machine must be updated, backed up and maintained by the administrator, forcing them to spend a lot of their time on these chores and unable to focus on development and other more productive tasks.

There is also a significant cost associated with using a multiple server environment. Each physical machine must be purchased, housed and maintained. The space and resources required to do this is expensive and increases with each additional server added. The time and money spent on servers can cause other departments to be underfunded, leading to lower moral and possibly damaging the entire brand.

Companies often employ temporary solutions to these problems to keep their bottom line looking good, but temporary solutions are not an effective long-term solution. The problem will arise again in the future and decisions will need to be made on how to patch it up. Many companies are finding the solution to this problem by switching to a virtualization infrastructure.

Virtualization infrastructures allow companies to condense the information that they are storing. They can keep operating systems and applications on a single machine rather than spread across several. The information can then be accessed by different virtual computers that share the resources of the single server. This practice lets IT admins focus their time on other areas rather than maintaining, storing and updating multiple servers.

Virtualization infrastructures offer the same level of protection as multiple server environments. Different information, like operating systems and applications, are housed in separate secure areas. If a problem occurs in one area, the others are unaffected and still accessible.

A company with a virtualization infrastructure must protect their system from being harmed. If the system does not have the proper protections a variety of problems can occur such as I/O bandwidth bottlenecks from accelerated fragmentation, virtual machine competition for shared I/O resources nto being properly prioritized across the platform and virtual disks set to dynamically grow not resizing when data is deleted.

Protecting a virtualization infrastructure is not very expensive and does not require a large time commitment. A company needs to install virtualization software on the system. Virtualization software like V-locity from Diskeeper Corporation prevents the problems with virtualization from arising. V-locity, acting as a virtual disk optimizer, delivers background optimization that will improve the functionality and operability of the infrastructure.

V-locity stops the bottleneck issue by creating a fast and efficient computing platform for new consolidation and provisioning initiatives without installing additional hardware. It coordinates resource usage to eliminate competition for I/O resources and compacts virtual disk space to prevent “bloating” on the disk. Keeping the infrastructure free of these issues allows the IT admins to shift their attention elsewhere.

Companies no longer need to wonder how to deal with the immense costs of running a multiple server environment. A virtualization infrastructure protected with virtualization software enables the company to reach a long term solution that lets them reallocate resources to help the company grow.