One of the biggest problems keeping companies from
reaching their goals is wasted time. When employees are unable to use
their time in productive ways it can be hard to focus on growth and
money becomes a problem. When money must be taken from one department to
focus on expansion decisions can be made that harm the company’s brand
and potential. A company that wants to eliminate wasted time and save
money it should first examine its business management system.
Frequently company’s business management systems struggle to efficiently
capitalize on resources. Multiple server environments, for instance,
are an ineffective way to store information and can actually prevent a
company from reaching maximum productivity.
In multiple server environments information, operating systems and
applications are stored to several different servers which must each be
maintained by IT administrators. Having separate physical machines
requires the IT admin must individually maintain, update and back up
each separately. These processes take time as the IT admin must make
sure that each server is properly cared for.
Multiple server environments also place a large burden on the company.
Servers, storage space and IT admins to maintain the servers are
expensive and the costs quickly add up, more so if the company wishes to
add more servers in an effort to increase production. Many companies
see these expenses as necessary because it is the way that they have
always done it, but the wasted time and funding shortages caused by the
expenses can damage company morale and hurt the brand in the long-run.
Cutting funds does not solve the root of the problem in multiple server
environments so while it may look good on paper the problem will
continue to occur until the system is retooled to work more efficiently.
Using a virtualization infrastructure many companies are able to find
their long-term solution.
Virtualization infrastructures condense all of the data that a company
keeps on its servers to one physical machine. The information can then
be accessed by different virtual computers that share the resources
housed on the single server. Purchasing, maintaining and storing
multiple servers is no longer a mandatory practice. IT admins can focus
their attention on the machine and move on to use their time in more
productive ways
Virtualization platforms offer the same level of security that can be
found in multiple server environments. Different operating systems and
applications are stored in separate areas on the server. This means that
if something goes wrong and a particular area is damaged the rest of
the information is kept safe and remains accessible.
To get the full value of a virtualization infrastructure companies must
protect the setup 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 on a virtualization system.
Luckily protecting the system does not require a large investment of
time or money. All a company has to do to ensure their system runs
cleanly is install
virtualization software. Virtualization software like
V-locity from
Diskeeper Corporation keeps the problems associated with
virtualization infrastructures from ever happening. V-locity acts as a
virtual disk optimizer to deliver background optimization that improves
the functionality and operability of the infrastructure.
V-locity works to eliminate bottleneck issues by creating a fast and
efficient computing platform for new consolidation and provisioning
initiatives without needing to add additional hardware. The software
also eliminates the competition for I/O resources by coordinating
resource usage. It can also compact the virtual disk to prevent the
virtual disk from “bloating,” allowing IT admins to focus their time on
more important ventures.
Companies are always going to feel pressure to maximize their profits
while creating new growth in the business. The easiest way to allow a
company to grow is increase the productivity from current employees.
Switching to a virtualization infrastructure and protecting it with
virtualization software will free a company’s employees so that they can
get more done.
