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Enabling Virtualization Technologies For Enhanced Cloud Computing, Kashifuddin Qazi

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Cloud Computing is a ubiquitous technology that offers various services for individual users, small businesses, as well as large scale organizations. Data-center owners maintain clusters of thousands of machines and lease out resources like CPU, memory, network bandwidth, and storage to clients. For organizations, cloud computing provides the means to offload server infrastructure and obtain resources on demand, which reduces setup costs as well as maintenance overheads. For individuals, cloud computing offers platforms, resources and services that would otherwise be unavailable to them.

At the core of cloud computing are various virtualization technologies and the resulting Virtual Machines (VMs). Virtualization …