Promote Company Growth by Switching to a Virtualization Infrastructure and Consolidating Expenses

June 15, 2011 - PRLog -- Companies are always struggling with ways to keep expanding and growing their business while still protecting their bottom line. This is difficult because growing the business requires a large financial commitment to more employees and promotion. Balancing these two needs often leads to companies making bad decisions that hurt the company in the long-term. The first thing that a company should do to find extra money is examine their business management system.

Many companies use business management systems every day that are inefficient and a waste of resources. Multiple server environments are a perfect example of a business management system that creates unnecessary expenses and limit the funds a company can allocate for expansion. Multiple server environments work against the company and prevent it from reaching its maximum potential.

A multiple server environment exists when companies put their information, applications and operating systems on different servers and keep them separate from one another. Each of these servers must then be updated, maintained and backed up by an IT administrator. Because each machine runs independently of the others it takes the IT admin a lot of time to make sure they are all running correctly, keeping them from managing other projects that they are given.

Multiple servers must also be purchased, stored and maintained independently of one another. This is a very expensive process that is seen as necessary by companies that have been using this setup for years. In reality the high costs associated with each additional server can cause funding shortages for other areas of the company. The lack of funds can cause employee morale to drop and damage the company's brand.

The drastic consequences of budget cuts make them an unreliable solution to the problem. The same flawed system will continue to create problems. Many companies are creating a long-term solution by switching to a virtualization infrastructure, eliminating the problems that are associated with multiple server environments.

Running a virtualization infrastructure lets a company condense their data in one place. Information, operating systems and applications are all housed on a single server. The server can be accessed by different virtual computers that all share the computing resources housed on the single server. Putting all of the company's resources on a single server eliminates the costs associated with storing, purchasing and maintaining multiple servers and allows IT admins to use their time in more productive ways.

A virtualization infrastructure even provides the same level of security as a multiple server environment. Operating systems, applications and information are all stored in their own secure areas on the server. If one area of the server is damaged the other areas remain intact and can still be accessed.

A fully functional virtualization infrastructure must be protected from harm. Problems such as I/O bandwidth bottlenecks from accelerated fragmentation, virtual machine competition for shared I/O resources not being prioritized properly across the platform and virtual disks set to dynamically grow not resizing when data are deleted can occur on a virtualization infrastructure that is left unprotected.

Protecting your virtualization infrastructure does not require an expensive investment of time or money. All a company must do is install virtualization software on their system. Virtualization software like V-locity from Diskeeper Corporation can keep the problems with virtualization infrastructures from ever happening. V-locity acts as a virtual disk optimizer and performs background optimization to improve the functionality and operability of the infrastructure.

V-locity eliminates bottleneck issues by creating a fast and efficient computing platform for new consolidation and provisioning initiatives without requiring the addition of hardware. V-locity also eliminates the competition for I/O resources by coordingating resource usage. It will even compact the virtual disk to protect the disk from "bloating." By preventing these problems with virtualization software the IT admins will be able to use their skills in more productive ways that benefit the company.

Balancing a company's profit margin and expansion goals created difficult situations and forces the company to find ways to free up extra money. Rather than continually shuffling money around and cutting funds a company needs to examine their business management system and make sure that they have a virtualization infrastructure protected by virtualization software.

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