The last few years have seen a radical increase in
technology companies offering services and products to the consumer
sector. Companies very seriously commit themselves to advancing their
technology and providing their customers with the most up to date
advances they can create to meet the consumer demand. The evolving
culture of smart phones, changing from communication device to mobile
business center, is proof that technology is advancing almost as faster
than companies can keep up.
The advancements have been possible because of the need to satisfy
customer demands. Millions of dollars are spent every year on
researching how to meet customers’ needs but companies often overlook
ways they can advance their own technology to enhance their
productivity. Some highly advanced companies still use archaic
information management systems.
The most obvious violators are companies that continue to use multiple
server environments to store their information. The companies introduce
the newest products in consumer technology but are unable to escape the
weight of their own internal systems. This oversight can hold the
company back and prevent them from achieving the income they could
otherwise generate.
Some companies have recognized this problem and found a solution by
adopting virtualization infrastructures to manage their information.
Virtualization infrastructures give companies the ability to store their
information, operating systems and applications on a single server
rather than spreading it out across several different machines. The data
on the lone server can be accessed by different virtual terminals. This
step has changed the way companies operate and has allowed their
employees to focus on growing the business and preparing it for the next
generation.
In multiple server environments time for development is a rarity because
IT administrators are forced to spend their time maintaining the
information on the various servers. Tasks like updates, recoveries,
archiving and backups are time intensive because each machine must be
worked on individually. When a company switches to virtualization all of
the information can be managed on a single machine and the IT admins
are free to focus on more important tasks.
Multiple server environments are also expensive. Each server is a large
expense and many of the servers are underutilized, used to house a
single operating system or application. Only a small percentage of the
server’s storage capacity is used and the rest of the space goes to
waste. Each server must also be housed somewhere and when space is at a
premium expenses quickly add up.
Virtualization allows the server to maximize its storage capacity and
does it safely and securely. Each operating system and application is
placed in its own protected environment to ensure that a problem in one
area will not affect the other data.
Virtualization allows companies to operate more efficiently and drive
production at a time when financial challenges are putting many
companies out of business. Continuing along the same path and not
addressing the present issues spell disaster for any company.
A company that switches to a virtualization infrastructure must also
make sure that they use the proper protection to secure their new
platform. I/O bandwidth bottlenecks due to accelerated fragmentation on
virtual platforms, virtual machine competition for shared I/O resources
not effectively being prioritized across the platform, and virtual disks
set to dynamically grow do not resize when data is deleted are all
known to create wasted space on virtualization infrastructures.
To stop these problems from arising a company should always install
virtualization software to quickly generate lasting protection.
Virtualization software like V-locity from the
Diskeeper Corporation is
able to uphold the integrity of virtualization infrastructures and
prevent future problems.
V-locity acts as a virtual disk optimizer to deliver background
optimization and improve the operability and functionality of the
platform. This means that V-locity can eliminate the issues that could
cause problems. It tackles the bottleneck issue by creating a faster and
more efficient computing platform for new consolidation and
provisioning initiatives without the need to add additional hardware,
eliminates competition for shared I/O resources by coordinating resource
usage, and solves the virtual disk “bloat” problem by compacting the
virtual disk, preventing wasted space and allowing IT admins to better
allocate virtual storage resources.
Any company that is dedicated to advancing their own technology as well
as consumer technology must focus on developing their infrastructure.
Managing the information properly is a critical component of innovation
and virtualization is the answer. The only remaining problem is
protecting the new investment and V-locity is the best answer.
