The key to operating a successful business is maximizing
the investments that you make. Many companies run into trouble when they
try to save money by limiting spending in critical departments.
Companies know that the solution to this problem is to free money in
other areas but it is difficult to determine which areas are the most
important to success and which areas are wasting their limited
resources. Instead of deciding how to shift funds to improve results
companies should first look to see if they can streamline processes that
would provide extra funds without increasing overall spending.
A large number of companies are still using multiple server environments
to manage their business. Multiple server environments are outdated and
cause companies to lose not only large amounts of money, but also
significantly lower the productivity of the IT administrators that they
employ. These environments cause company-wide delays and prevent
employees from focusing on growth and ways to attract new business.
Multiple server environments are set up so that each operating system
and application a company uses is housed on its own secure server. The
resulting number of servers must each be maintained, updated, backed up
and archived individually by an IT admin. The result is a heavy load of
work for the IT admins that do not allow them to use their time
efficiently. The majority of their work is the repetition of a few tasks
on each server.
There is also a high cost tied to acquiring each server. The individual
machines themselves are expensive. Add the cost of maintenance and
housing to the equation and the costs quickly rise. To compound the
problem as the company grows additional servers must be purchased, again
requiring additional upkeep and space. Companies have historically
written this off as the cost of doing business but virtualization
technology has provided a way for companies to streamline their
operations and reduce their fixed costs.
Virtualization platforms allow companies to consolidate their
information to a single server. Applications and operating systems are
stored on a lone physical machine instead of being spread across
multiple servers. The information stored on the server is accessed by
different virtual computers that share the server's resources. By using a
single server IT admins are freed from constant upkeep and are able to
focus their time on more productive and rewarding projects.
Some companies have expressed concern that condensing their information
to a single server produces a security risk. They feel that by keeping
information on separate servers a problem with one server would not
spread to the rest and the company would not be incapacitated until the
IT admins fixed the problem. Virtualization platforms avoid this problem
by creating secure areas for each application and operating system. If
something goes wrong in a single area it will be contained and the
remaining information will be accessible and unaffected.
Virtualization platforms are not without their faults. I/O bandwidth
bottlenecks created by accelerated fragmentation on virtual platforms,
virtual machine competition for shared I/O resources not effectively
prioritized across the platform and virtual disks set to dynamically
grow not resizing when information is deleted are all issues that can
occur on these platforms. These problems are all preventable with the
installation of a
virtualization platform disk optimizer.
A virtualization platform disk optimizer like V-locity from
Diskeeper
Corporation provides solutions to these problems to keep the platform
running quickly and efficiently, maximizing the value. V-locity is on
the cutting edge of virtualization technology and uses a vast array of
tools to prevent the problems that slow down virtualization platforms.
On Windows platforms every operating system is optimized to prevent most
fragmentation issues from occurring. The remaining fragmentation is
quickly defragmented and free space is consolidated to minimize
unnecessary I/Os passed from the operating system to the disk subsystem.
Data on the drives is then aligned to provide previously unseen speed
and reliability. With the exclusive InvisiTaksing(r) Technology V-locity
guarantees complete invisibility while it optimizes all Windows
operating systems on supported virtualization platforms. It also
eliminates the need for scheduling or monitoring defrag where it is
needed, even as virtual machines are dynamically added and removed.
Companies realizing the money-saving benefits of virtualization
platforms are increasing the demand for quick, efficient systems.
V-locity virtualization platform disk optimizer is an unparalleled
solution to technical drawbacks of virtualization systems.
