To run a successful business a company must consistently
find ways to maximize their profits. To increase profits companies can
expand their operations or find ways to limit their expenditures.
Unfortunately cutting costs can often to lower the growth potential of
the company and in some cases cause the company to remain stagnant. The
decisions that must be made can have disastrous results for the company
in the long-term. Before a company decides to increase their bottom line
by enacting cost cuts it should closely examine their business
management system to see if they can improve their infrastructure.
Many companies' business management systems do not work to maximize a
company's potential output. In multiple server environments the
necessary setup actually works against the company and forces them to
enact budget cuts and other drastic measures.
In multiple server environments a company places all of its information,
operating systems and applications across several different servers.
Each server must be maintained and cared for by an IT administrator.
Each server must be backed up, updated and general maintenance must be
performed creating a large workload for the IT admin and leaving them
unable to focus their skills elsewhere.
Multiple servers must also be individually purchased, housed and
maintained. These processes alone are very expensive and increase every
time a company adds a new server to their network. The money spent on
servers is money that cannot be used to develop business assets that the
company can use to expand and grow revenues. Eventually the lack of
funding can lower moral and even harm the company brand.
Cutting costs is a temporary solution to the larger problem caused by
multiple server environments. The profit margin looks good temporarily
but problems will continue and need to be addressed each time they
arise. More and more companies are finding solutions to the problem by
switching to a virtualization infrastructure.
Virtualization infrastructures do not need to house information on
different physical servers. The operating systems, applications and
information are all condensed onto one machine that can then be accessed
by different virtual computers sharing the resources of a single
server. Doing this does not require the expense of housing and
maintaining various machines and allows IT admins to spend their time in
more productive ways.
Virtualization offers the same security that multiple server
environments do by keeping operating systems and applications in their
own secure areas on the server. If one of the areas experiences a
problem the rest of the information is unaffected and can still be used.
After a company switches to a virtualization infrastructure it must take
the proper steps to maintain the new system. Luckily maintaining the
system does not require a large time commitment or come at a big
expense, all a company must do is install
virtualization software on the
system. Virtualization software like V-locity from
Diskeeper
Corporation prevents the issues that are normally associated with
virtualization infrastructures. V-locity, acting as a virtual disk
optimizer, improves the functionality and operability of the
infrastructure by delivering background optimization.
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 are all problems that virtualization
infrastructures can experience.
V-locity prevents bottlenecking by making fast and efficient computing
platforms for new consolidation and provisioning initiatives without
creating the need for new hardware. It coordinates resource usage to
stop competition for I/O resources and compacts the virtual disk space
to prevent "bloating." Being free from these issues allows your IT
admins to work more productively and not worry about problems popping up
on the infrastructure.
Using a virtualization infrastructure and protecting it with
virtualization software lets a company free itself from the shackles of a
multiple server environment and the costs that come with it. It is a
long-term solution to help the bottom line look good and enable the
company to provide quality service without limiting growth potential.
