Tag: Virtual machine

Virtualization has become nearly ubiquitous in business as a way to cut IT expenses, enhance security, and increase operational efficiency.

The idea for server virtualization technology was originally conceived as a means to reduce costs through software consolidation. Looking back it seems like a pretty obvious solution, but at the time this was revelatory. Instead of running each individual workload on a separate physical server, unused hardware capacity was now able to be used to run a number of workloads at the same time as virtual machines.