Virtualization Technology Fundamentals Report for Solar Panel Firm

This report provides a recommendation to the CIO of a solar panel manufacturing company regarding the adoption of virtualization technology. It begins with an analysis of the current hardware and software infrastructure, followed by an evaluation of the physical hardware needed to support organizational growth. The report emphasizes the benefits of virtualization, including the ability to run multiple operating systems, reduce administrative tasks, improve scalability, and save costs by increasing efficiency and decreasing maintenance downtime. Different virtualization types, such as network, storage, server, and desktop virtualization, are discussed, along with associated security risks and the use of sandboxing technology to isolate applications and mitigate threats. The conclusion highlights how server virtualization can maximize resource utilization and improve organizational security. The report references several academic sources to support its claims.

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Recommendation to the CIO on virtualization technology
For the adoption of the virtualization technology in the current business of the solar panel
manufacturing company the current hardware and software of the local center is analyzed. The
physical hardware needed for meeting the growth of the organization is evaluated with the
current hardware and software available and the following recommendations are made for the
adoption of the virtualization technology in the current business process.
The adoption of virtualization helps to run multiple operating system in a computer and
for the company the virtualization can be viewed as an overall IT trend help the organization to
manage perceived activity and utility computing. With the implementation of virtualization the
administrative task loads can be reduced and the scalability of the organization can be improved
(Thomas, Costa & Oliveira, 2016).
The security implication after the deployment of the new technology is uncertain but the
virtualization can provide many benefit which finds integration of virtualization in the
organizational infrastructure. Virtualization helps in saving cost and increase the efficiency of
the business with decreasing maintenance downtime and thus reduces the disruption in the
business (Lu & Xu, 2018). It can help in doing more work with the use of less hardware
equipment’s.
The virtualization can be implemented in the business in different sectors such as
network, storage, server and virtualization of desktop. There are certain security risk in each of
the virtualization types but it can be said that with the virtualization the security can be improved
but it is not capable for preventing all the attacks. Security controls are needed to be enforced
with the virtualization environment and sandboxing can be used for the separation of program

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running often used for executing untested code, unverified third party programs, websites and
suppliers (Chandran & Walvekar, 2018). The sandboxing helps in isolating the application and
eliminate the risk of harmful virus, malware, etc. For the unstable programs it can be put into a
virtual machine such that it cannot affect rest of the systems.
A malicious application may run in a browser and thus it a good practice to run the
application in a virtual machine and with the application of sandbox technology the payment
needed to be made for the new machine is also eliminated. With the virtualization the machine is
directly connected with the internet and not with the LAN of the company and thus the operating
system can be protected from programs with viruses or other harmful attacks.
Conclusion
The virtualization of the server helps in masking the resources of the server and thus it
can partition the physical server into multiple smaller virtual servers for maximizing the
resources. The physical server is needed to be divided according to multiple virtual environment
and such that the server can run independently without affecting the operating system (Shuaib et
al., 2019). It isolates the unstable application and reduces the cost of web hosting and manage the
complicated details while increasing the utilization rate of the servers. The security of the
organization can also be improved with the implementation of virtualization technology.

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References
Chandran, M., & Walvekar, J. (2018). Monitoring in a Virtualized Environment. GSTF Journal
on Computing (JoC), 1(1).
Lu, Y., & Xu, X. (2018). Resource virtualization: a core technology for developing cyber-
physical production systems. Journal of manufacturing systems, 47, 128-140.
Shuaib, M., Samad, A., Alam, S., & Siddiqui, S. T. (2019). Why Adopting Cloud Is Still a
Challenge?—A Review on Issues and Challenges for Cloud Migration. Ambient
Communications and Computer Systems: RACCCS-2018, 387.
Thomas, M., Costa, D., & Oliveira, T. (2016). Assessing the role of IT-enabled process
virtualization on green IT adoption. Information Systems Frontiers, 18(4), 693-710.