Available in IBM mainframes for decades as well as in Sun servers and other machines, hardware virtualization came to the huge x86 market in 2004 with Intel's Virtualization Technology (see VT).

With virtualization, small companies have ready access to huge technology resources without paying for a lot of hardware that may ... to the stringent service level agreements necessary for ...

Cloud computing refers to the on-demand, seamless access of computing resources as services over the Internet (“the cloud” per se). Cloud computing, which leverages virtualization technology, allows ...