Virtualization in terms of computing

Posted by Saif | 11/14/2007 10:12:00 AM

Last Monday a latest Oracle is launched in the virtualization software market. Here it might be difficult to get the virtualization literally means in terms of computing, so it should be cleared as it is in a broad term that refers to the abstraction of computer resources. Definition may vary according to the scholars but one useful definition that would help to go through it, this is a technique for hiding the physical characteristics of computing resources from the way in which other applications, systems, or end users interact with those resources. What is that single physical resource? Such as an operating system, an application, a server, or storage device which appears to function as multiple logical resources. However, it can include making multiple physical resources like storage devices or servers that appear as a single logical resource.

From the early 1960s it has been widely used and later on it has been applied to many different aspects and scopes of computing from individual capabilities to entire computer systems or components. Notwithstanding the common theme of all virtualization technologies is remain same the hiding of technical detail, through encapsulation. Since then the development has been continuing to provide a better definition to it and recent development and the technologies have refocused attention on this concept.

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