Available in IBM mainframes for decades as well as in Sun servers and other machines, hardware virtualization came to the huge x86 market in 2004 with Intel's Virtualization Technology (see VT).

Along with greater utilization of hardware ... of using virtual servers. (2) Treating all servers in a network or server farm as a single resource. See network virtualization.

“Virtualization is a key technology used in a wide range of applications, from cloud computing to embedded systems. Over the last few years, mainstream computer architectures were extended with ...