Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigation, 2nd Edition

What Is Virtualization?

Cloud providers have strategically targeted multiple bases spanning complex corporate network infrastructure to basic home users. While the client’s goal of managing data and resources remains the same, the means to that end has become radically different. From a physical standpoint the server rack looks the same as it always has. Multiple servers provide the computing power needed to service each client, or subscriber. The hardware and maintenance expenses are essentially shared by the number of clients and absorbed by the costs of services provided. Virtualization supplies the key for cloud providers to offer services to multiple subscribers while minimizing hardware costs, negating the need to provide dedicated machines ...