It is very difficult for companies, during these hard
economic times, to balance their expenditures and their plans for
growth. Often there is no extra money to allocate for expansion and
business development. When companies do make an attempt to grow they
must face decisions about how to free up the extra money that it will
take to reach their goals. Many times the company’s make bad decisions
that hurt the company. To avoid making these mistakes a company should
try to find ways to streamline their business management systems and
spend money more efficiently.
Companies are usually guilty of spending too much money on multiple
server environments. Business management systems like this require a lot
of effort to run and maintain and can actually slow operations. By
using a multiple server environment companies force their employees to
spend time on mundane tasks rather than focus their energy on helping
the company grow.
In a multiple server environment a company’s operating systems and
applications are stored on different servers and each one must be
maintained by an IT administrator. Each individual machine must be
updated, backed up and maintained by the IT admin before they can begin
to focus their expertise elsewhere.
Multiple server environments are also expensive to set up and run. Each
server requires maintenance, constant updates and space to store it.
These requirements can create serious expenses and each additional
server increases the cost and time that must be spent dealing with them.
Many companies are finding a solution to this problem by switching to a
virtualization infrastructure.
In a virtualization infrastructure companies can condense all of the
information that they are storing onto one physical machine rather than
spreading it across several. The information on the server can then be
accessed by different virtual computers that share the resources housed
in the server. This setup allows IT admins save time by only needing to
attend to the one machine and use the rest of their time in more
productive ways.
Virtualization infrastructures also offer the same level of security as
multiple server environments. The operating systems and applications
housed on the server are stored in their own secure areas. If one area
is compromised the rest are still accessible and the information can be
retrieved.
After switching to a virtualization infrastructure a company must make
sure that they use the proper tools to maintain it. The infrastructure
can suffer problems like I/O bandwidth bottlenecks from accelerated
fragmentation, virtual machine competition for shared I/O resources not
being properly prioritized across the platform and virtual disks set to
dynamically grow not resizing when data is deleted. To avoid these
problems a company must use
virtualization software on their
infrastructure.
Protecting a virtualization infrastructure does not require a large
investment of time or money. Virtualization software like V-locity from
Diskeeper Corporation, once installed, will prevent the problems that
arise in virtualization infrastructures. V-locity, acting as a virtual
disk optimizer, delivers background optimization to improve the
functionality and operability of the infrastructure.
Virtualization software prevents bottleneck issues by creating a fast
and efficient computing platform for new consolidation and provisioning
initiatives without installing additional hardware. V-locity will also
coordinate resource usage to eliminate competition for I/O resources and
compact the virtual disk to prevent disk “bloat.” Preventing these
issues from the outset allows the IT admins to focus on more meaningful
tasks that promote the company’s growth.
Companies trying to find a way to focus more money on expansion and do
not know where to find it should seriously examine their business
management system. Switching to a virtualization infrastructure with
virtualization software will save time and money and help keep your
company growing.
