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2012

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A Performance Comparison Of Hypervisors For Cloud Computing, Suganya Sridharan Jan 2012

A Performance Comparison Of Hypervisors For Cloud Computing, Suganya Sridharan

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The virtualization of IT infrastructure enables the consolidation and pooling of IT resources so that they can be shared over diverse applications to offset the limitation of shrinking resources and growing business needs. Virtualization provides a logical abstraction of physical computing resources and creates computing environments that are not restricted by physical configuration or implementation. Virtualization is very important for cloud computing because the delivery of services is simplified by providing a platform for optimizing complex IT resources in a scalable manner, which makes cloud computing more cost effective.

Hypervisor plays an important role in the virtualization of hardware. It …