Africa Can Greatly Benefit from Virtualization Technology – Part 1

In my last issue in Volume 5 Issue 1, I articulated the benefits of Clouding computing and in particular, I focused on how Africa might benefit if there is a drive to change the model of computing. In this follow-up piece, I was to go more into the virtualization technology and how Africa especially African Higher Education institutions chocked with the scarcity of resources and severely under funded, can benefit from virtualization technology. We will start by defining virtualization to give everyone a fair understanding of the technology before we start our discussion.