Free Your Company's IT Admins and Save Money by Switching to a Virtualization Infrastructure

June 15, 2011 - PRLog -- It is very difficult for companies, during these hard economic times, to balance their expenditures and their plans for growth. Often there is no extra money to allocate for expansion and business development. When companies do make an attempt to grow they must face decisions about how to free up the extra money that it will take to reach their goals. Many times the company’s make bad decisions that hurt the company. To avoid making these mistakes a company should try to find ways to streamline their business management systems and spend money more efficiently.

Companies are usually guilty of spending too much money on multiple server environments. Business management systems like this require a lot of effort to run and maintain and can actually slow operations. By using a multiple server environment companies force their employees to spend time on mundane tasks rather than focus their energy on helping the company grow.

In a multiple server environment a company’s operating systems and applications are stored on different servers and each one must be maintained by an IT administrator. Each individual machine must be updated, backed up and maintained by the IT admin before they can begin to focus their expertise elsewhere.

Multiple server environments are also expensive to set up and run. Each server requires maintenance, constant updates and space to store it. These requirements can create serious expenses and each additional server increases the cost and time that must be spent dealing with them. Many companies are finding a solution to this problem by switching to a virtualization infrastructure.

In a virtualization infrastructure companies can condense all of the information that they are storing onto one physical machine rather than spreading it across several. The information on the server can then be accessed by different virtual computers that share the resources housed in the server. This setup allows IT admins save time by only needing to attend to the one machine and use the rest of their time in more productive ways.

Virtualization infrastructures also offer the same level of security as multiple server environments. The operating systems and applications housed on the server are stored in their own secure areas. If one area is compromised the rest are still accessible and the information can be retrieved.

After switching to a virtualization infrastructure a company must make sure that they use the proper tools to maintain it. The infrastructure can suffer problems like I/O bandwidth bottlenecks from accelerated fragmentation, virtual machine competition for shared I/O resources not being properly prioritized across the platform and virtual disks set to dynamically grow not resizing when data is deleted. To avoid these problems a company must use virtualization software on their infrastructure.

Protecting a virtualization infrastructure does not require a large investment of time or money. Virtualization software like V-locity from Diskeeper Corporation, once installed, will prevent the problems that arise in virtualization infrastructures. V-locity, acting as a virtual disk optimizer, delivers background optimization to improve the functionality and operability of the infrastructure.

Virtualization software prevents bottleneck issues by creating a fast and efficient computing platform for new consolidation and provisioning initiatives without installing additional hardware. V-locity will also coordinate resource usage to eliminate competition for I/O resources and compact the virtual disk to prevent disk “bloat.” Preventing these issues from the outset allows the IT admins to focus on more meaningful tasks that promote the company’s growth.

Companies trying to find a way to focus more money on expansion and do not know where to find it should seriously examine their business management system. Switching to a virtualization infrastructure with virtualization software will save time and money and help keep your company growing.

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