ROLE OF VIRTUALIZATION IN CLOUD COMPUTING

Abstract: Virtualization & Cloud computing are two popular research directions in recent times. Today, Virtualization is being used by a growing number of organizations to reduce power consumption, Server Consolidation, Testing and Development, Dynamic Load Balancing & Disaster Recovery, Virtual Desktops and Improved System Reliability & Security. Virtualization also provides high availability for critical applications, and streamlines application deployment and migrations. Through cloud computing, Information Technology resources can be delivered as services over the Internet to the end user. Virtualization is one of such important core technologies of cloud computing.

Keywords: Cloud Application, Virtualization, Testing and Development, cloud computing.