About cookies on this site Our websites require some cookies to function properly (required). In addition, other cookies may be used with your consent to analyze site usage, improve the user experience and for advertising. For more information, please review your options. By visiting our website, you agree to our processing of information as described in IBM’sprivacy statement. To provide a smooth navigation, your cookie preferences will be shared across the IBM web domains listed here.
Publication
EuroSys 2008
Conference paper
Duality of virtualization: Simplification and complexity
Abstract
In recent years, virtualization has gained much in visibility and importance in the information technology (IT) industry. Many analyst reports, including IDC [1] and EMA [2], indicated ever increasing number of companies deployed virtualization to their production environments. There is also tremendous momentum from industrial vendors in creating new virtualization enablers along with their management functions. Some vendors engage in activities of standardizing common abstractions for various virtual entities at different virtualization layers.