Virtualization

Virtualization offers organizations these benefits:

• Savings on infrastructure and support costs.
• Fast recovery of information systems in the event of an equipment mishap.
• New opportunities for disaster recovery and business continuity.

In addition to examining these virtualization benefits in this assignment, you will also examine challenges associated with virtualization. Specifically, you will write a 2-3 page paper in which you:

1. Define virtualization.
2. Justify the need for organizations to use virtualization.
3. Evaluate two virtual technologies/solutions.
4. Determine alternatives to virtualization.
5. Research security risks associated with virtualization and potential countermeasures.
6. Go to Basic Search: Strayer University Online Library to locate and integrate into the assignment at least three quality, peer-reviewed academic resources, written within the past five years.
   • Include your textbook as one of your resources.
   • Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.