Virtualization

In computing, virtualization denotes generation of a virtual prototype of a device or resource, such as a server, storage device, network or even an operating system where the structure segregates the resource into one or more execution platforms. Virtualization indeed resembles the partitioning of a hard drive into two separate sub-hard drives. Hardware components, software suites, and human users are able to garner the advantages of the virtual resource as if it was a genuine independent coherent resource. The term virtualization has become a catch-phrase in the modern day business and it is usually associated with the jargons in relation to computing technologies including server virtualization, storage virtualization, operating system-level virtualization, network virtualization and application virtualization.