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Virtualization is perceived as the holy grail of IT because of the benefits that it offers to an organization.  It minimize or even eliminate duplicate data, and provides no conflict. I would think it would save a company money because would no longer have to build data warehouse or outsource data to a third party and less equipment would be purchased.

Virtualization can help Verbania with increasing productivity. Having fewer physical servers would save time, because the company would have less to maintain and manage. The staff would have more available time to work on other projects such as founding ways to increase revenues and cutting any expenses. The biggest thing is disaster recovery. In the event of a disaster it would be faster and much safer to move a virtual machine from one server to another. Normally virtualization platforms will contain software that would help automate failure during a disaster. (Top 5 Ways Businesses Benefit from Server Virtualization, 2017)

Some security considerations regarding virtualization would be virtual sprawl and virtual configuration setups. Virtual sprawl is a term associated with an expandable environment. With this type of technology, virtual machines can be available within minutes. As there are more machines available virtually it’s harder to keep the machines secure. It would be much easier to miss simple things such as security patches. Virtual configuration setups has to be monitored and watch closely. If the initial setup is full of security risks such as unnecessary ports, risky services or any other vulnerabilities, each virtual machine after will take on some risks. (Brown, 2016)

Virtualization enables multiple operating systems and applications to run at the same time on the same server. Cloud computing enables a network to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be provision and release with minimal management. Cloud computing has more scalability and can be extended as much as needed, where virtual machines has limitations. The setup is more tedious to do with cloud computing yet simple with virtualization. User access is flexible with cloud computing and virtualization will require proper authentication. (Difference between Cloud Computing and Virtualization, 2018)

I wouldn’t recommend virtualization, I believe cloud computing would be a better options just based on the benefits of being flexible and scalable. With a social networking company such as Verbania, it needs to be accessible across the world and cloud computing is best platform to showcase applications and software worldwide. Lastly back-up is more reliable to with cloud computing. With the amount of data being accepted and use, there should be an easy/quick platform to back up the sensitive information.

References

Brown, S. (2016). 4 Considerations for Securing Your Virtual Environments. Retrieved from https://www.rutter-net.com/blog/4-considerations-for-securing-your-virtual-environments

Difference Between Cloud Computing and Virtualization. (2018). Retrieved from EWDUCBA: https://www.educba.com/cloud-computing-vs-virtualization/

Top 5 Ways Businesses Benefit from Server Virtualization. (2017). Retrieved from New Horizons: https://blog.nhlearningsolutions.com/blog/top-5-ways-businesses-benefit-from-server-virtualization