Companies are constantly struggling to keep their costs
low while expanding their client base and grow their business. Problems
occur because it is difficult to expand without spending money on
additional promotion and staff. Many attempts to balance these needs
result in bad decision making and, in the long-run, do more harm than
good. What companies need to do is examine their infrastructure and find
ways that they can save money by streamlining their business management
systems.
Many companies rely on systems to manage their business that struggle
with efficiency. Multiple server environments, for instance, do not
create productive environments and are not an active way for the company
to maximize its expenses. Multiple server environments can actually
hold a company back from reaching its business potential.
When running a multiple server environment companies place their
operating systems and applications across different servers that must be
maintained by IT administrators. The servers are separate from one
another forcing the IT admings to update, backup and maintain each
server individually. This process necessitates an incredible time
commitment stopping the admins from focusing on more lucrative projects.
A multiple server environment also requires companies to purchase, house
and maintain several servers at the same time. This is expensive. The
cost is seen as necessary by many companies because it is the way that
it has always been done but it can lead to shortages in other areas like
expansion and development. These shortages can damage moral in the
company and limit the growth potential of the brand.
Cutting spending in other areas is not a true solution to the problem.
It is a temporary fix that will need to be addressed again in the future
as the same problems continue to come up due to the flawed system. To
solve the problem in the long-term many companies are adopting a
virtualization infrastructure that eliminates the problems caused by
multiple server environments.
Virtualization platforms give the company the ability to condense all of
their information, operating systems and applications down onto one
single machine. The information can then be accessed by different
virtual computers that share the resources stored on the server. This
makes purchasing, storing and maintaining multiple servers obsolete
because all of the information is in one place. IT admins can quickly
deal with the single server and move on to other, more lucrative
projects.
Virtualization provides the same security that can be found in multiple
server environments. Different operating systems, applications and
information are stored in their own secure areas. If something were to
go wrong in one of these areas, the rest of the data would not be
compromised and could still be accessed.
To get the full value of a virtualization infrastructure a company must
install protect their system from harm. 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
issues that can occur.
Luckily, protecting the system does not come at a huge cost or an
outrageous time commitment. All a company has to do is install
virtualization software.
Virtualization software like V-locity from
Diskeeper Corporation can keep the problems associated with
virtualization from ever happening. V-Locity acts as a virtual disk
optimizer to deliver background optimization that will improve the
functionality and operability of the infrastructure.
V-locity eliminated bottleneck issues by creating a quick and efficient
computing platform for new consolidation and provisioning initiatives
without needing to add additional hardware. The software eliminates the
competition for I/O resources by coordinating resource usage and will
compact the virtual disk to prevent it from "bloating." Preventing these
issues from the outset frees the IT admins and lets be more productive.
Companies are always going to feel the need to maximize their profits
but they don't need to continue using the same practices that have put
them in their current situation. Using a virtualization infrastructure
running virtualization software will provide a way for companies to move
forward and grow their business.
