Virtualization
in Cloud Computing
Virtualization is a technique, which allows to share a single
physical instance of a resource or an application among multiple customers and
organizations. It does by assigning a logical name to a physical storage and
providing a pointer to that physical resource when demanded.
Types of
Virtualization:
·
Hardware
Virtualization.
·
Operating
system Virtualization.
·
Server
Virtualization.
·
Storage
Virtualization.
How does
virtualization work in cloud computing?
Virtualization
plays a very important role in the cloud computing technology, normally in
the cloud computing, users share the data present in the clouds like application
etc., but actually with the help of virtualization users shares the
Infrastructure.
The main usage of Virtualization Technology is to provide the
applications with the standard versions to their cloud users, suppose if the
next version of that application is released, then cloud provider has to provide
the latest version to their cloud users and practically it is possible because
it is more expensive.
To overcome this problem, we use basically virtualization
technology, by using virtualization, all severs and the software application
which are required by other cloud providers are maintained by the third party
people and the cloud providers has to pay the money on monthly or annual basis.
