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Emerging Trends

Virtualization—A Modern Concept

All of us are aware of cloud computing

technology and we are using one of its best

examples, i.e. Google Drive (cloud-based storage

solution which allows us to store data online

instead of storing it in our local machines and
share the data with multiple users) every now

and then. But what if a user wants to share the

infrastructure, i.e., physical resources like server,
desktop, storage device, operating system or any

network resource among multiple users? This is

the case when a modern concept termed as

“Virtualization” comes into the picture.

Virtualization is a technique, which allows to
share a single physical instance of a

resource or an application among multiple

customers and organizations. It basically means

creating virtual rather than actual version of
something. It involves using specialized

software (Example: Hypervisor management

software) to create a virtual or software-created

version of a computing resource rather than the