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 23-page paper in which you:
- Define virtualization.
- Justify the need for organizations to use virtualization.
- Evaluate two virtual technologies/solutions.
- Determine alternatives to virtualization.
- Research security risks associated with virtualization and potential countermeasures.
- Go to 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.
