Demystifying virtualization
Simply put, Virtualization is about sharing resources of a single computer across multiple environments and users. Virtualization helps increase the utilization and flexibility of hardware by making it possible to run multiple operating systems and multiple applications on the same computer at the same time. A more radical way of thinking is of virtualization as a method that allows you to transform hardware into software.
Anyone who uses a computer can benefi t from virtualization. It saves time, money, energy and helps people achieve morewith the computer hardware they already own. Software such as VMware ESX helps transform or virtualize the hardware resources of a computer including the CPU, RAM, hard disk and network controller to create a fully functional virtual machine. Multiple virtual machines share hardware resources without interfering with each other so that several operating systems and applications can be run at the same time on a single computer.
For small to mid size organizations, there are several benefits of virtualization that are direct and upfront – reduce costs of IT staff, get a service provider to remotely provision a range of services covering hardware, storage, backups, content filtering, patch management, license management, information security and several other such everyday uses priced as utility bundles from a managed service provider. The biggest benefit will be that of having enterprise class IT assets and services at an affordable pay per use pricing model which will help such companies reduce their ‘sunk costs’ into large IT assets that will obsolete soon.
Levels of virtualization
While a single computer can be easily virtualized, software such as VMware also allows creation of a robust virtualization platform that can scale across several interconnected computers and storage devices to form a virtualized infrastructure. Virtualization helps create pools of dynamic resources
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Anyone who uses a computer can benefi t from virtualization. It saves time, money, energy and helps people achieve morewith the computer hardware they already own. Software such as VMware ESX helps transform or virtualize the hardware resources of a computer including the CPU, RAM, hard disk and network controller to create a fully functional virtual machine. Multiple virtual machines share hardware resources without interfering with each other so that several operating systems and applications can be run at the same time on a single computer.
For small to mid size organizations, there are several benefits of virtualization that are direct and upfront – reduce costs of IT staff, get a service provider to remotely provision a range of services covering hardware, storage, backups, content filtering, patch management, license management, information security and several other such everyday uses priced as utility bundles from a managed service provider. The biggest benefit will be that of having enterprise class IT assets and services at an affordable pay per use pricing model which will help such companies reduce their ‘sunk costs’ into large IT assets that will obsolete soon.
Levels of virtualization
While a single computer can be easily virtualized, software such as VMware also allows creation of a robust virtualization platform that can scale across several interconnected computers and storage devices to form a virtualized infrastructure. Virtualization helps create pools of dynamic resources
To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePaper, visit: http://emagazine.managementnext.com
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