Week 14: Muddy

During week 14 we were introduced to enterprise computing.

Upon completion of this section we were suppose to be able to succesfully:

• Discuss advanced storage technologies that are increasingly used to solve the storage problems faced by larger organizations.
• Explain the concept of virtualization and discuss the potential benefits to either an individual or an organization.
• Discuss the concept of thin client computing.

All of the above concepts were very new to me. I had to go beyond the lecture and reading to really grasp a true understanding of the material.

I decided to research the concept that was most muddy to me in this section.

According to the lecture, virtualization is is a technique for running multiple “virtual computers” on a single physical host computer system.  

To be more clear, "server virtualization is the masking of server resources, including the number and identity of individual physical servers, processors, and operating systems, from server users. The server administrator uses a software application to divide one physical server into multiple isolated virtual environments. The virtual environments are sometimes called virtual private servers, but they are also known as guests, instances, containers or emulations."

This video clearly and explicitly explains to concept of virtualization. What is virtualization?