Cut Costs and Increase Productivity by Implementing a Virtualization Infrastructure

June 24, 2011 - PRLog -- One of the biggest problems keeping companies from reaching their goals is wasted time. When employees are unable to use their time in productive ways it can be hard to focus on growth and money becomes a problem. When money must be taken from one department to focus on expansion decisions can be made that harm the company’s brand and potential. A company that wants to eliminate wasted time and save money it should first examine its business management system.

Frequently company’s business management systems struggle to efficiently capitalize on resources. Multiple server environments, for instance, are an ineffective way to store information and can actually prevent a company from reaching maximum productivity.

In multiple server environments information, operating systems and applications are stored to several different servers which must each be maintained by IT administrators. Having separate physical machines requires the IT admin must individually maintain, update and back up each separately. These processes take time as the IT admin must make sure that each server is properly cared for.

Multiple server environments also place a large burden on the company. Servers, storage space and IT admins to maintain the servers are expensive and the costs quickly add up, more so if the company wishes to add more servers in an effort to increase production. Many companies see these expenses as necessary because it is the way that they have always done it, but the wasted time and funding shortages caused by the expenses can damage company morale and hurt the brand in the long-run.

Cutting funds does not solve the root of the problem in multiple server environments so while it may look good on paper the problem will continue to occur until the system is retooled to work more efficiently. Using a virtualization infrastructure many companies are able to find their long-term solution.

Virtualization infrastructures condense all of the data that a company keeps on its servers to one physical machine. The information can then be accessed by different virtual computers that share the resources housed on the single server. Purchasing, maintaining and storing multiple servers is no longer a mandatory practice. IT admins can focus their attention on the machine and move on to use their time in more productive ways

Virtualization platforms offer the same level of security that can be found in multiple server environments. Different operating systems and applications are stored in separate areas on the server. This means that if something goes wrong and a particular area is damaged the rest of the information is kept safe and remains accessible.

To get the full value of a virtualization infrastructure companies must protect the setup from harm. 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 is deleted are all issues that can occur on a virtualization system.

Luckily protecting the system does not require a large investment of time or money. All a company has to do to ensure their system runs cleanly is install virtualization software. Virtualization software like V-locity from Diskeeper Corporation keeps the problems associated with virtualization infrastructures from ever happening. V-locity acts as a virtual disk optimizer to deliver background optimization that improves the functionality and operability of the infrastructure.

V-locity works to eliminate bottleneck issues by creating a fast and efficient computing platform for new consolidation and provisioning initiatives without needing to add additional hardware. The software also eliminates the competition for I/O resources by coordinating resource usage. It can also compact the virtual disk to prevent the virtual disk from “bloating,” allowing IT admins to focus their time on more important ventures.

Companies are always going to feel pressure to maximize their profits while creating new growth in the business. The easiest way to allow a company to grow is increase the productivity from current employees. Switching to a virtualization infrastructure and protecting it with virtualization software will free a company’s employees so that they can get more done.

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