Getting To The Bottom Of Full Virtualized IT Environment

By William Ward


The thing about the modern world is that it did not come about by magic. No, it came about through hard work and innovation. Humankind used to walk around the earth sans shoes. But now, people do not even have to walk at all. There are vehicles of all sizes in the modern day, the kind that make it unnecessary to put one foot in front of the other. But mobility is not the only aspect where humanity made great leaps and bounds forward. No, there it also information. It used to be that information was passed orally. Now, it can be passed in a full virtualized IT environment.

Information technology is what IT means. It covers all kinds of digital technology. In the modern world, it may be the second most important resource in the workplace, second only to the employees themselves.

Information technology has applications that can be used in the real world. For example, emails. In the old days, to send a message, a person had to write a letter, and then send that letter to the intended recipient, and then wait for a response. Nowadays, however, a person can just write an email, hit send, and then wait for the recipient to respond.

Virtualization is the process by which a new environment is created. It is not an imitation of a new environment, but a new world altogether. In a digital context, this means having one computer, but using more than operating system concurrently.

Now, the applications for such technology are far reaching. One of the most common examples of such technology is the virtual desktop. The desktop is the initial screen of the computer, the part where all the programs and folders that can be clicked on can be found. Now, a virtual desktop is exactly the same, except that it can be accessed by basically any computer given the right security protocols. This means that a person can access the same programs and files regardless of what computer they are using.

The adage money is no object is all well and good for a rich person shopping, but even for a company with resources, money is very much an object. Both the company that develop software and the clients who buy with are both going to want money. However, the impetus is on the client to pay the developers a fair price for the product.

When a consumer pays for food, they can reasonably expect that that food is going to be edible if not necessarily delicious. In the same vein, any client that buys software for their enterprise can reasonably expect that the software will work as advertised. So, they should make sure to shop around before they spend that line on their budgets.

The main drawback of such tech, and of any tech in general, is people. A person who loses their security token, for example, potentially opens up the virtualized environment to outsiders. An employee who forgets their password loses productivity.

People expect convenience. They have also come to expect speed when it comes to their tasks. They want to be able to do things quickly and efficiently.




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