A common bond amongst successful companies is that they
all spend money in the most efficient ways possible. Executives are
always trying to decide where to allocate money to provide the best
returns on their investment and must continually find ways to free up
money for growth and expansion. In many cases executives focus heavily
on ways to keep overall costs low and make decisions that can hurt the
company in the long term. Before making any decisions about how to
allocate funds a company should make sure that their business management
system is operating as efficiently as possible.
If a company's business management system is not running at its peak
ability money is being wasted every single day. The most common way for a
company to waste money is by operating a multiple server environment.
These types of environments create unnecessary work for the company's IT
administrators and cause backups throughout the company. The backups
leave employees unable to focus on business opportunities and hurt the
company's ability to remain competitive.
Multiple server environments require that information be stored on
different servers each hosting a single application or operating system.
Each server must be individually backed up, maintained and updated by
the IT admins. With multiple servers to cater to the majority of their
time is spent doing repetitive tasks and keeping them from focusing on
what is most important to the company, streamlining processes to create
faster more reliable services.
Servers also accumulate costs because they are expensive to purchase,
maintain and store. Each time a company expands their capacity and adds
another server the costs increase dramatically. Companies have viewed
these expenses as necessary to their business and written off the costs
as unavoidable; however with advancing technology the multiple server
environment has become outdated.
Companies have found a solution to the waste caused by multiple server
environments by adopting virtualization platforms. A virtualization
platform gives a company the ability to condense their information onto a
single server. Applications and operating systems are stored in a
single place rather than spread across different machines and can be
accessed by different virtual computers that share the single server's
resources. The use of the single server allows the IT admins to quickly
perform updates and maintain the integrity of the server and move on to
projects that provide more value to the company.
One of the greatest fears that companies have before switching to
virtualization platform is security. With multiple server environments
they know that a corrupted operating system or application will not
affect the others because the server holding that information is
separated from the others. Virtualization platforms solve this problem
by creating a secure area for each piece of information. This way if a
file is corrupted the other operating systems and applications are not
harmed and can still be used while the problem is being fixed.
There are three issues that may impact a virtualization environment. I/O
bandwidth bottlenecks fast because of accelerated fragmentation on
virtual platforms. Virtual machine competition for shared I/O resources
is not effectively prioritized across the platform. Last but not least
virtual disks set to dynamically grow to not resize when information is
deleted, wasting free space. These are legitimate fears that companies
may have before switching to a virtualization platform but they can all
be prevented with the installation of V-locity from
Diskeeper
Corporation.
V-locity is easy to install and a cost effective preventative measure to
deal with these issues. The software operates invisibly to optimize the
entire virtual platform and ensure the most effective computing
available. On Windows platforms every operating system is optimized to
prevent most fragmentation issues from occurring. The remaining
fragmentation is quickly defragmented and fee space is consolidated to
minimize unnecessary I/Os passed from the operating system to the disk
subsystem. Data on the drives is aligned to provide previously unseen
speed and reliability.
As demand grows for virtualization platforms due to intensified demand
for IT network efficiency and lower operating costs it is essential that
companies protect their platforms from the threats that can arise.
V-locity
virtualization platform disk optimizer is the best way to be
positive that you are getting the best performance out of your new
platform and operate your business efficiently.
