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Chapter 13. Cloud Computing and Virtualization

Chapter Outline

13-1 Introduction

13-2 Virtualization

13-3 Cloud Computing

Questions and Problems

Objectives

• Describe the concept and benefit of virtualization

• Discuss the concept of the “cloud”

• Explain the purpose of a Hypervisor

• Develop an appreciation of the benefit of outsourcing services to the cloud

• Understand the steps to set up virtualization on a PC

Key Terms

VM (virtual machine)

Type-1 Hypervisor

Type-2 Hypervisor

vMotion, XenMotion, Live Migration

cloud service/cloud computing

Infrastructure as a Service

Platform as a Service

Software as a Service

This chapter examines virtualization ...

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