Many companies face a major challenge when migrating to the cloud. It is crucial to understand the pros and cons associated with cloud computing and integrate the business to ensure customer satisfaction.
Cloud computing refers to the provision of resources over a network, such as data, servers, or software. Cloud technology is the most popular way for businesses to grow. While we are familiar with ‘Cloud Computing,’ many people don’t know much about virtualization.
Today, I will share some insights that will help you solve the conflict between ‘Cloud Computing and ‘Virtualization.
Before we get into the details, let’s first understand some basic concepts of cloud computing.
Cloud computing allows for quick, easy access to a pool shared configurable computing resources. These resources can be quickly provisioned and released with minimal administration. These resources include tools and apps such as data storage, servers and databases, networking, and software.
Cloud-based storage allows you to save your hard drive storage. Cloud-based storage is the best option for many people, including businesses, for many reasons such as increased productivity, speed and efficiency, cost savings, performance, security, and performance.
Let’s now get to Virtualization.
Virtualization is software that adds an extra layer to the computer hardware. This would allow hardware elements such as processors, memory, storage, and so on. Virtual machines (VMs) are a way to divide a single computer into multiple virtual computers. This allows multiple OS, multiple software, and multiple applications to be installed on the same machine.
Virtual Machines have their own operating system and act as independent computers even though they are running on a small portion of the underlying hardware.
Virtualization vs Cloud Computing
The table below outlines the key differences between virtualization and cloud computing.
Cloud computing applications can run any software/ program as a normal computer. Cloud computing can be used in many verticals, including healthcare, e-commerce, and social media. Let’s take a look at some examples of virtualization.
Use cases – Virtualization
Preparation for 5G
Virtualization software allows you to instantly deliver any type or telecom service. Virtualization allows for flexibility and makes it possible to make changes to the network infrastructure that is currently in place. Another important feature of 5G is network slicing. It allows for flexible sharing of resources.
Dev & Test environments
Virtualization technology allows developers to create self-service portals that allow them to see their resource usage and have a simplified resource provisioning and management. This will help optimize the Dev & Test environments. Tools are also available to lower the cost of non-production environments. It increases visibility and speed to reduce risk associated with resource usage.
Consolidating Servers
Virtualization is a standard-based technology that allows for high-performance platforms. It allows for live migration and restarts on priority, making it highly accessible. In the event of backup or restoration, third-party tools are also supported. Centralizing compute, network, and storage resources allows for simplification of operations.
Virtualization technology has many benefits
Because there is minimal hardware usage, the cost of the service is much lower.
Replicas can be cloned to reduce downtime, especially in the case of disaster recovery.
It is much more environment-friendly than a data centre, which requires no energy to cool down and also reduces carbon footprint.
Making the right decision:
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