The process of creating a virtual version of something be it an operating system, a storage device, a server or network resources is known as virtualization. With virtualization, enterprises and companies succeeded in integrating administrative tasks, enhancing scalability, managing workloads, and reducing operational complexities.

1. Types of Virtualization Solutions
The process of creating a virtual version of something be it an operating system, a storage device, a server
or network resources is known as virtualization. With virtualization, enterprises and companies succeeded
in integrating administrative tasks, enhancing scalability, managing workloads, and reducing operational
complexities. It brought about revolutionary changes to the working atmosphere of companies and
enterprises. The most important advantage of virtualization is that it utilizes available resources to
increase performance.
Virtualization solutions can be broadly divided into:
Desktop Virtualization
The concept of separating the desktop environment from the client that is used to access it is referred to as
desktop virtualization. This concept is extremely useful in the office environment. For the mobile
workforce, remote desktop access helps them to mange work efficiently and satisfactorily.
Server or Hardware Virtualization
It refers to the process of using software to partition a physical server into multiple isolated smaller virtual
environments. Generally called as virtual or private servers, they are also known by different names such
as guests, instances, containers, emulations and so on. Since each server acts like a single physical server,
they are capable of running their own operating systems and applications. However, these applications
and operating systems running on separate servers do not interact or cause problems for each other
thereby guaranteeing excellent performance. In server virtualization, the resources of the server such as
the number and identity of individual physical servers, processors, and operating systems are masked
from server users.
Network Virtualization
Using software-based abstraction to separate network traffic from the physical network and its
components is what is meant by network virtualization. With this technology, administrators can
consolidate multiple physical networks into one virtual network, split up a single physical network into
multiple networks or create software only networks. Network virtualization helps to increase speed, save
costs, improve scalability, automation and network management.
Storage Virtualization
In storage virtualization, the administrator collects the entire multiple and different storage resources or
devices into a single pool or a single storage device. This helps companies to allocate storage volume
according to the requirement and not according to the limitations of the individual storage devices or
resources.

2. Application Virtualization
Also known as application Delivery portability or application service virtualization, application
virtualization involves the separation of the application from the operating system. That is to say, the
software is run from a remote server and not on the user’ computer and therefore no changes are made to
the computer’ operating system. Application virtualization helps companies to improve portability,
manageability, and compatibility of applications.
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