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Virtualization
From the course: CCSP Cert Prep: 1 Cloud Concepts, Architecture, and Design
Virtualization
- [Instructor] The world of enterprise computing has changed dramatically over the years. And the advent of virtualization is one of those transformative changes. Virtualization is the driving force behind cloud computing infrastructure. Now it was only a few decades ago that enterprise computing was confined to the world of data center and its mainframe. Dozens of computing professionals carefully tended to these very valuable resources that serve as the organization's electronic nerve center. Then in the 1980s and 1990s, the enterprise IT landscape shifted dramatically. We moved away from the world of monolithic mainframes to a new environment of client server computing. This shift brought tremendous benefits. First, it put computing power right on the desktop, allowing users to perform many actions directly on their machines without requiring mainframe access. Centralized computing improved also by allowing the use of…