What is Virtualization? Can It Really Work For Us?
Virtualization is a simple concept to define, steal from Peter what he owns but does not use, and give to Paul. Or another way to look at it, virtualization is a form of computing communism! Take resources that are not used, and use them. Ok, so this is simplistic? Well, actually no. To explain my point, we need to go back to the early days of computer design and engineering, and the initial generation of software code development, which states: computing, regardless of the technology or the terminology, have two key resources, which are time and space. One key rule of computing is that you use time to save space, or you use space to save time, but you can not do both at once. Now why did I explain this in reference to virtualization? Because in virtualization the assumption is, that you have additional time and/or space that you are not using effectively, that there is always some time, or some space in a computer system that is not used effectively all the time, at least some if not all the time.
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