Virtualization

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Virtualization

 

Requirements:

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. Locate and integrate at least three quality, peer-reviewed academic resources written within the past five years into the assignment.

Include your textbook as one of your resources.

Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Formatting:

The preferred method is for your paper to be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.

Include a cover page containing the assignment title, your name, your professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.

Include a source list page. Citations and references must follow the APA format