Article | REF: H6035 V1

Security of virtualization solutions- Present and future

Authors: Marc LACOSTE, Aurélien WAILLY

Publication date: October 10, 2014

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2. Virtualization principles

2.1 Virtualization: definition

The growth of cloud computing is largely due to advances in virtualization technologies.

Virtualization involves introducing a layer of abstraction that emulates the behavior of hardware resources.

It authorizes :

  • concurrent execution of different services (e.g. operating systems) on the same hardware platform (e.g. physical machine);

  • running the same service on multiple hardware platforms

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