15th April 2013
Technical Writing- Virtualization
Virtualization is consolidating computing services into an easy to provide and support solution masked away from the user. Think of Virtualization like a prism. A prism is one piece of glass that can split up many different colors and wavelengths of light. In the same sense, Virtualization can partition your computer so that one piece of hardware can support many different operating systems. And not just operating systems, but applications as well. This becomes useful if, for example, you want to run different versions of the same piece of software simultaneously on the same machine. In this course, we are going to discuss the three main types of virtualization: operating system, hardware emulation, and paravirtualization.
The key piece to virtualization is that the user never knows where or how these services are being provided. Virtualization creates a curtain behind which the average user never thinks to look. Just like in the Wizard of Oz, Virtualization allows you to create impressive IT solutions to your client’s needs, and no one ever pays attention to what’s actually going on behind that curtain.