Lower Operating Costs with Virtualization Platforms Protected by V-locity Virtualization Disk

July 20, 2011 - PRLog -- The key to operating a successful business is maximizing the investments that you make. Many companies run into trouble when they try to save money by limiting spending in critical departments. Companies know that the solution to this problem is to free money in other areas but it is difficult to determine which areas are the most important to success and which areas are wasting their limited resources. Instead of deciding how to shift funds to improve results companies should first look to see if they can streamline processes that would provide extra funds without increasing overall spending.

A large number of companies are still using multiple server environments to manage their business. Multiple server environments are outdated and cause companies to lose not only large amounts of money, but also significantly lower the productivity of the IT administrators that they employ. These environments cause company-wide delays and prevent employees from focusing on growth and ways to attract new business.

Multiple server environments are set up so that each operating system and application a company uses is housed on its own secure server. The resulting number of servers must each be maintained, updated, backed up and archived individually by an IT admin. The result is a heavy load of work for the IT admins that do not allow them to use their time efficiently. The majority of their work is the repetition of a few tasks on each server.

There is also a high cost tied to acquiring each server. The individual machines themselves are expensive. Add the cost of maintenance and housing to the equation and the costs quickly rise. To compound the problem as the company grows additional servers must be purchased, again requiring additional upkeep and space. Companies have historically written this off as the cost of doing business but virtualization technology has provided a way for companies to streamline their operations and reduce their fixed costs.

Virtualization platforms allow companies to consolidate their information to a single server. Applications and operating systems are stored on a lone physical machine instead of being spread across multiple servers. The information stored on the server is accessed by different virtual computers that share the server's resources. By using a single server IT admins are freed from constant upkeep and are able to focus their time on more productive and rewarding projects.

Some companies have expressed concern that condensing their information to a single server produces a security risk. They feel that by keeping information on separate servers a problem with one server would not spread to the rest and the company would not be incapacitated until the IT admins fixed the problem. Virtualization platforms avoid this problem by creating secure areas for each application and operating system. If something goes wrong in a single area it will be contained and the remaining information will be accessible and unaffected.

Virtualization platforms are not without their faults. I/O bandwidth bottlenecks created by accelerated fragmentation on virtual platforms, virtual machine competition for shared I/O resources not effectively prioritized across the platform and virtual disks set to dynamically grow not resizing when information is deleted are all issues that can occur on these platforms. These problems are all preventable with the installation of a virtualization platform disk optimizer.

A virtualization platform disk optimizer like V-locity from Diskeeper Corporation provides solutions to these problems to keep the platform running quickly and efficiently, maximizing the value. V-locity is on the cutting edge of virtualization technology and uses a vast array of tools to prevent the problems that slow down virtualization platforms.

On Windows platforms every operating system is optimized to prevent most fragmentation issues from occurring. The remaining fragmentation is quickly defragmented and free space is consolidated to minimize unnecessary I/Os passed from the operating system to the disk subsystem. Data on the drives is then aligned to provide previously unseen speed and reliability. With the exclusive InvisiTaksing(r) Technology V-locity guarantees complete invisibility while it optimizes all Windows operating systems on supported virtualization platforms. It also eliminates the need for scheduling or monitoring defrag where it is needed, even as virtual machines are dynamically added and removed.

Companies realizing the money-saving benefits of virtualization platforms are increasing the demand for quick, efficient systems. V-locity virtualization platform disk optimizer is an unparalleled solution to technical drawbacks of virtualization systems.

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