-
Technology
-
Industry
-
Solutions
-
- ASSET MANAGEMENT
- CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT
- CYBER SECURITY
- DATA CENTER
- DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT
- ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE
- ENTERPRISE DATA MANAGEMENT
- ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING
- ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT
- ENTERPRISE-GRADE WEB DATA SOLUTIONS
- FACILITY MANAGEMENT
- FIELD SERVICE
- IDENTITY AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT
- INFRASTRUCTURE
- IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT
- MANAGED IT SERVICES
- PAYMENT AND CARD
- PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- SOFTWARE TESTING
- STORAGE
- VIDEO SOLUTIONS
- WORKFLOW
-
-
Platforms
-
Functions
- Leadership Perspectives
- Innovation Insights
- Research
- Magazines
- News
- CXO Awards

Virtualization is the collaboration of hardware and software engineering, which creates Virtual Machines (VMs). These are considered to be an abstraction of the hardware of the computer that enables a single physical machine to act as numerous machines. Without VMs, a single operating system will own the entire hardware resources, but with the deployment of VMs, multiple operating systems that has its own separate virtual machines can share the hardware. Virtualization refers to the ability to create a virtual or software-based version of something that includes storage devices, virtual computer hardware platforms, and computer network resources. Virtualization can be broadly classified into three categories that include operating-system virtualization, full virtualization, and para-virtualization.