For a company to be successful it must always find new
ways to limit wasteful spending, however it can be difficult to
determine which expenses are necessary and which are needlessly hurting
profits. Many decisions that companies make when trying to cut spending
result in actions that are destined to hurt the company over time. To
avoid making these mistakes companies should examine their business
management systems to see if they are spending excess money on outdated
operations.
Multiple server environments are one way that companies spend money when
they do not need to. Business management systems like these can
actually slow operations and create wasted time for employees, leaving
them unable to focus on the tasks that will help the company grow and
prosper.
In a multiple server environment companies put their operating systems
and applications on different servers that are all maintained by IT
administrators. Each individual machine must be constantly updated,
maintained and backed up by the IT admin and forces them use their
valuable time on repetitive tasks. By spending their time working on
each server, they are unable to focus on larger issues and streamlining
company processes.
A multiple server environment is also expensive to set up. Servers must
be purchased, maintained and stored in their own place creating a need
for extra space and an influx of money to purchase additional servers
and IT professionals as the company grows and adds to their system. Many
companies are solving this problem by switching to a virtualization
infrastructure.
Virtualization infrastructures let companies condense all of their
information that they are storing. They can place operating systems and
applications on a single physical machine rather than spread across
several. The information can be accessed by virtual computers that share
the resources housed on the server. By doing this companies can let IT
admins focus on more productive tasks and them back the time that it
normally takes to maintain and update different servers.
Virtualization infrastructures offer the same protections as multiple
server environments. Because operating systems and applications are
stored in their own secure areas, if something was to go wrong and an
area was compromised, the other areas can still be accessed.
After switching to a virtualization infrastructure a company must make
sure to protect their new investment. If the infrastructure is left
unprotected it can experience problems like 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 comparatively easy. All a
company has to do is install
virtualization software, which does not
require a large commitment of time or money. Virtualization software
like V-locity from
Diskeeper Corporation prevents the problems that are
associated with virtualization infrastructures from ever happening.
V-locity acts as a virtual disk optimizer and delivers background
optimization to improve functionality and operability.
Bottlenecking issues are stopped by creating a fast and efficient
computing platform for new consolidation and provisioning initiatives
without installing additional hardware. V-locity coordinates resource
usage to eliminate competition for I/O resources and compacts the
virtual disk to brevent disk "bloating." Keeping the infrastructure from
having these issues frees the IT admins to move on to other tasks that
benefit the company.
Companies that are hoping to protect their profit margins no longer have
to worry about how to stop spending money on essential business needs.
By switching to a virtualization infrastructure and protecting it with
virtualization software they can condense the expensive servers that
they already have and find a long-term solution to budget crunches.
