Dive Into Virtualization Or Get Left Behind
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Author Keir Thomas addresses the average Joe in this article on CIO, about the use of virtualization, and offers ten interesting uses for it. Although virtualization refers to running two or more operating systems one one physical PC, there's also Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), which is where client computers log in to a server and access their own desktop environments, all of which is hosted on the server computer. Mobile devices such as tablets are increasingly being used to access desktop virtualization.
Ten reasons to try virtualization.
"Most virtualization software allows the virtual machine to run headless, which is to say, without displaying a desktop (or other user-interface). Essentially, the virtual PC runs in the background although accepts all other kinds of connections, such as networking. For people creating websites, this offers the possibility of running their very own private web server for testing purposes.”
