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COMPUTER SCIENCE: VIRTUALIZATION AS THE PRIMARY FOUNDATION IN
CLOUD COMPUTING
Generally, virtualization is the primary foundation in cloud computing; thus, most IT
organizations need to deploy servers that operate only at a part of their whole capacity because
they are mainly dedicating their physical servers to a certain application. In the effort to drive high
capacities in utilization and reducing costs, that's when virtualization was created, which has
become quite beneficial not only to the various organization but also to the network administrators
and also to those using this technology on a constant basis (Ramakrishnan et al., 2020).
Virtualization uses a software to develop an abstraction layer on the physical hardware. Thus
creating the abstraction layer, it develops a compute virtual system, which is known as the virtual
machines, which allows different organizations to run various virtual computers and applications
on a single physical server and operating system that partition essentially into different virtual
servers.
The primary advantage of virtualization is that it is a more effective utilization of the
physical hardware of the computer, thus providing a greater return based on the investment of the
computer (Anand et al., 2020). Virtualizing the organizational environment increases the
scalability, thus reducing the various expenses simultaneously, thus being of more benefit to an
organization and to network administrators. There are different benefits of virtualization to an
organization in that use of a non-virtualized organizational environment is definitely inefficient
because when one is not consuming the basic application on the server, then this means that the
computer is barely idle and thus cannot be applied for other organizations. Thus, when the
organizational environment is virtualized, then the single physical server basically transforms into
different virtual machines.
