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Virtualization
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.