Virtualization is the creation of something virtual in the place of having the actual physical hardware or machine (Epstein, 2011). It is a “combination of software and hardware engineering that creates Virtual Machines,” which are “an abstraction of the computer hardware that allows a single machine to act as if it were many machines” (Burger, 2008). Some of the forms that the virtual version takes include network resources, storage devices, operating systems, and hardware platforms (Epstein).
Some of the benefits offered by virtualization are increased company profits and growth rate; ensured business continuity; responsiveness to changing business needs; ...
