To make this vision a reality, IT must transition from the slow, static, costly paradigm of application deployment to the responsive, agile, efficient approach of application delivery. With a strategic and architectural approach to application delivery, IT can become an enabler to business change rather than a road block. This will become a defining issue for IT over the next decade.
Virtualization is a broad term that refers to the abstraction of computer resources. Virtualization hides the physical characteristics of computing resources from their users, be they applications, or end users.
