Virtualization: A Manager's Guide
by Dan Kusnetzky /
2011 / English / PDF
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What exactly is virtualization? As this concise book explains, virtualization is a smorgasbord of technologies that offer organizations many advantages, whether you're managing extremely large stores of rapidly changing data, scaling out an application, or harnessing huge amounts of computational power. With this guide, you get an overview of the five main types of virtualization technology, along with information on security, management, and modern use cases.
What exactly is virtualization? As this concise book explains, virtualization is a smorgasbord of technologies that offer organizations many advantages, whether you're managing extremely large stores of rapidly changing data, scaling out an application, or harnessing huge amounts of computational power. With this guide, you get an overview of the five main types of virtualization technology, along with information on security, management, and modern use cases.Topics include:
Topics include:Access virtualization
Access virtualization—Allows access to any application from any device
—Allows access to any application from any deviceApplication virtualization
Application virtualization—Enables applications to run on many different operating systems and hardware platforms
—Enables applications to run on many different operating systems and hardware platformsProcessing virtualization
Processing virtualization—Makes one system seem like many, or many seem like one
—Makes one system seem like many, or many seem like oneNetwork virtualization
Network virtualization—Presents an artificial view of the network that differs from the physical reality
—Presents an artificial view of the network that differs from the physical realityStorage virtualization
Storage virtualization—Allows many systems to share the same storage devices, enables concealing the location of storage systems, and more
—Allows many systems to share the same storage devices, enables concealing the location of storage systems, and more
