Skip to Main Content
How Clouds Hold IT Together: Integrating Architecture with Cloud Deployment
book

How Clouds Hold IT Together: Integrating Architecture with Cloud Deployment

by Marvin Waschke
November 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
392 pages
11h 47m
English
Apress
Content preview from How Clouds Hold IT Together: Integrating Architecture with Cloud Deployment

CHAPTER  10

Not in Kansas

Virtualization Challenges

SUMMARY

Virtualization is a computer technology with a long history that has bloomed in recent years. Originally developed to support multitasking on mainframes, virtualization is the foundation for cloud computing today and contributes to the flexibility, reliability, and ease of use of computing today. Before the technology could become as common as it is now, it had to be applied to the workhorse of distributed computing, the x86 architecture. When that was accomplished, virtual systems spread rapidly in datacenters around the world and led to the next phase: cloud computing.

This chapter discusses some of the ways virtualization is used, how it is implemented, and some of the challenges ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

The Azure Cloud Native Architecture Mapbook

The Azure Cloud Native Architecture Mapbook

Stéphane Eyskens, Ed Price

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781430261674Purchase book