Computers and other devices have done nothing but get faster,
giving businesses the ability to move traditional functions onto
the computer. This move saved companies untold amounts of money
and made employees more productive. The new trend is to move
these now “physical” elements into a more virtual environment, a
trend called virtualization. In technical circles, the process
of virtualization is the creation of a virtual copy of something
actual like a server, network or storage device. Virtualization
allows one device to run as more than one device. Running
Windows on your Mac, or partitioning a physical hard drive into
smaller sections that each act as a separate hard drive are
examples of virtualization. In general, there are four types of
virtualization: - Operating System virtualization. Running more
than one operating system on the same device. - Server
virtualization. Running more than one server on the same
physical server. - Storage virtualization. Linking together
multiple storage devices into wha