Virtualization: A Manager's Guide (eBook)

Big Picture of the Who, What, and Where of Virtualization

Dan Kusnetzky (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2011
74 Seiten
O'Reilly Media (Verlag)
978-1-4493-1378-4 (ISBN)

Infos

What exactly is virtualization? As this concise book explains, virtualization is a smorgasbord of technologies that offer organizations many advantages, whether you're managing extremely large stores of rapidly changing data, scaling out an application, or harnessing huge amounts of computational power. With this guide, you get an overview of the five main types of virtualization technology, along with information on security, management, and modern use cases.Topics include:Access virtualizationAllows access to any application from any deviceApplication virtualizationEnables applications to run on many different operating systems and hardware platformsProcessing virtualizationMakes one system seem like many, or many seem like oneNetwork virtualizationPresents an artificial view of the network that differs from the physical realityStorage virtualizationAllows many systems to share the same storage devices, enables concealing the location of storage systems, and more

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.6.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Betriebssysteme / Server ► Virtualisierung
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Office Programme ► Outlook
• ISBN-10: 1-4493-1378-7 / 1449313787
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4493-1378-4 / 9781449313784