Enhance Productivity and Cut Down on Excessive Spending by Using a Virtualization Infrastructure

June 15, 2011 - PRLog -- For a company to be successful it must always find new ways to limit wasteful spending, however it can be difficult to determine which expenses are necessary and which are needlessly hurting profits. Many decisions that companies make when trying to cut spending result in actions that are destined to hurt the company over time. To avoid making these mistakes companies should examine their business management systems to see if they are spending excess money on outdated operations.

Multiple server environments are one way that companies spend money when they do not need to. Business management systems like these can actually slow operations and create wasted time for employees, leaving them unable to focus on the tasks that will help the company grow and prosper.

In a multiple server environment companies put their operating systems and applications on different servers that are all maintained by IT administrators. Each individual machine must be constantly updated, maintained and backed up by the IT admin and forces them use their valuable time on repetitive tasks. By spending their time working on each server, they are unable to focus on larger issues and streamlining company processes.

A multiple server environment is also expensive to set up. Servers must be purchased, maintained and stored in their own place creating a need for extra space and an influx of money to purchase additional servers and IT professionals as the company grows and adds to their system. Many companies are solving this problem by switching to a virtualization infrastructure.

Virtualization infrastructures let companies condense all of their information that they are storing. They can place operating systems and applications on a single physical machine rather than spread across several. The information can be accessed by virtual computers that share the resources housed on the server. By doing this companies can let IT admins focus on more productive tasks and them back the time that it normally takes to maintain and update different servers.

Virtualization infrastructures offer the same protections as multiple server environments. Because operating systems and applications are stored in their own secure areas, if something was to go wrong and an area was compromised, the other areas can still be accessed.

After switching to a virtualization infrastructure a company must make sure to protect their new investment. If the infrastructure is left unprotected it can experience problems like I/O bandwidth bottlenecks from accelerated fragmentation, virtual machine competition for shared I/O resources nto being properly prioritized across the platform and virtual disks set to dynamically grow not resizing when data is deleted.

Protecting a virtualization infrastructure is comparatively easy. All a company has to do is install virtualization software, which does not require a large commitment of time or money. Virtualization software like V-locity from Diskeeper Corporation prevents the problems that are associated with virtualization infrastructures from ever happening. V-locity acts as a virtual disk optimizer and delivers background optimization to improve functionality and operability.

Bottlenecking issues are stopped by creating a fast and efficient computing platform for new consolidation and provisioning initiatives without installing additional hardware. V-locity coordinates resource usage to eliminate competition for I/O resources and compacts the virtual disk to brevent disk "bloating." Keeping the infrastructure from having these issues frees the IT admins to move on to other tasks that benefit the company.

Companies that are hoping to protect their profit margins no longer have to worry about how to stop spending money on essential business needs. By switching to a virtualization infrastructure and protecting it with virtualization software they can condense the expensive servers that they already have and find a long-term solution to budget crunches.

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