Cloud Computing or what was called Virtualization in the past, is a means of maximizing the utilization of expensive computing resources by grouping multiple resource requests in a secure structured way. With the improvements in communications technologies such as wireless broadband, we now have adequate access to bandwidth almost anywhere we would like to work. Because our work habits are no longer limited to the walls of the office environment, the value (and high cost) of having the computing resources close to the user is no longer a successful argument. Cloud Computing provides a means to host your computing resources in a shared computing facility with or without managed services so that you have better reliability and performance, while reducing your IT costs and continue having secure access to your data anywhere/anytime.

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Virtualization is a term heard often today in any discussion about information technology. Lately the term has also been heard in mainstream headlines, particularly with the recent VMware IPO. There have been major investments by such companies as AMD, Citrix, Dell, HP, Intel, Microsoft, and Sun, major strides made by these companies and a number of products announced or released in the past six months. This brief will attempt to demystify the term, answer what virtualization is, why you should be interested and what it can do for your business.