Question

Verbania executives have heard that virtualization is the holy grail of information technology (IT) infrastructures. Conduct some research on virtualization, and discuss the following:

In your opinion, why is virtualization perceived as the holy grail of IT?

How can virtualization help Verbania?

What are the security considerations?

How does it compare with cloud computing?

Will you recommend virtualization for Verbania?

Answer 1

opinion, why is virtualization perceived as the holy grail of IT?:-

Even from a project management point-of-view, data virtualization enables quick checks with business users and effective validation points. It means fewer errors and less wasting of time and cost.

Data virtualization is a cultural change. That is to say, it has organizational aspects in addition to technological aspects. So, if I can’t see a single technical reason for not leveraging data virtualization, there may be some organizational circumstances in which we must be careful in proposing and adopting this technology.

I think that data virtualization is perfectly suited to an agile way-of-thinking and implementation approach. Many customers say they are agile, yet they are still looking for a traditional requirements/development/test/deploy cycle because their business users are not ready to work in an agile way.

Customers ask for more analysis and hypothesis testing, but this can be very simply addressed by the logical layer of virtual data.

So, yes, data virtualization really is the Holy Grail. And just like the original Holy Grail from Arthurian literature, all that data virtualization needs now are some brave knights in pursuit of their dreams.

How can virtualization help Verbania?:-

there are many way in which virtualization can help verbania saving you money and time while providing much greater business continuity and ability to recover from disaster

security consideration:-   

1)Securing virtual hard disks

2) Reducing the attack surface for hosts

3)Classifying virtual machines

4)Involving information security personnel throughout the lifecycle

5) Segment traffic for administration and storage

comparison between virtualization and cloud computing:-

virtualization:-virtualization is technology that allows you to create multiple simulated environments or dedicated resources from a single, physical hardware system. Software called a hypervisor  connects directly to that hardware and allows you to split 1 system into separate, distinct, and secure environments known as virtual machines. These virtual machines rely on the hypervisor’s ability to separate the machine’s resources from the hardware and distribute them appropriately

cloud computing:-

cloud computing is a set of principles and approaches to deliver compute, network, and storage infrastructure resources, services, platforms, and applications to users on-demand across any network. These infrastructure resources, services, and applications are sourced from clouds, which are pools of virtual resources orchestrated by management and automation software so they can be accessed by users on-demand through self-service portals supported by automatic scaling and dynamic resource allocation

yes i will recommend virtualization for verbania