Virtualization And Cloud

The term virtualization and cloud computing goes hand in hand, there are some differences between them, but there are similarities too.

What are they? How are they different? Before going to explain that; we should have basic knowledge about- what these terms actually mean.

Virtualization - it is a single computer managing various machines. In other words, it can be said it provides multiple servers on the hardware configuration, helping in achieving high performance, reduces capital costs and etc.

What is a cloud computing? 

It can be explained in just one line- a person lives in a hotel rather than in a house is a cloud computing. Or it can be understood, there are various softwares on the cloud, a person uses them, but when his computer crashes- those software doesn’t i.e. others can still use those software. So, it is “collection” of computers and servers on the internet that can be accessed publically. Obviously there can be private clouds but right now we should take on a general term.

On the whole, Virtualization is a key component of the cloud, but cloud computing is not only “virtualization”. It usually means- “we pay for what we see” not for everything else we have been given and we are not using. It helps in “user scalability”.

So, it can be summed up as- virtualization is one physical computer pretending to have multiple computing paradigms whereas in cloud computing, there are many computers who pretend to be “one”.