All Things PerfectDisk – and Defrag - Supersized servers for 2010 -- defrag to ensure vSphere and Hyper-V performance

A couple of weeks ago I looked at part of Computerworld's Forecast 2010 Special Report. Today I'll look at another part of the report -- Supersized Servers and the message that "virtualization will hit a hot streak in 2010, and enterprises will order more systems fully loaded with maximum processing power, memory and I/O capabilities." In question after question in Computerworld's study, virtualization, and particularly server virtualization, came up big:

#1 of Top 5 technologies most likely to be the target of spending increases in 2010: Servers
#1 of Top 5 project priorities for 2010: Server upgrades, virtualization
#1 of Top 5 most promising new technologies for respondents' industries or organizations: virtualization
#1 of Top 5 technology areas for beta testing: virtualization.

While 2009 saw cutbacks or budgets on hold, 2010 is forecast to see an increase. Almost 65% of IT professionals polled indicated their organizations are likely to virtualize more servers this year. And the servers are going to be beefy, bigger and more powerful to handle more virtualization servers.

As organizations look to virtualizatoin to handle more, they also need to look at virtualization performance. And one key aspect of virtualization performance is defragmentation, including Hyper-V defrag and vSphere defrag. As important as we feel defrag has always been and continues to be for physical servers, it's as least as much with virtualization, as organization look to improve vSphere performance and Hyper-V performance. If all that power in those new servers is not allocated properly, much of it will be wasted. Only with a technology such as PerfectDisk's Virtual Awareness can the power of a busy virtual server be fully harnessed. Without virtual awareness, even the biggest and most powerful servers can waste a lot of resources, spinning its wheels, so to speak. Virtual awareness ensures perfect communication between the host and all its guests.

Maximize virtualization performance with enterprise defragmentation -- with virtualization smarts.

The entire Computerworld article, by Robert L. Mitchell, is here.