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Wednesday, July 4, 2018

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.

Now, virtualization means creating a whole new environment. It does not simulate environments nor does it emulate them. Instead, it creates whole new ones from scratch, brand new worlds made of nothing but ones and zeroes. In short, it is running more than one system on a single computer at the same time.

The applications for this kind of technology can be comprehensive. For example, and probably the most common application, is the virtual desktop. In a computer, a desktop is the screen with all the icons that represent shortcuts to programs and file folders. Now, a virtual desktop is a second desktop, one with different folders and programs. This is because of access. A virtual desktop can be accessed from basically any computer, provided the person who is trying to gain access has the right security credentials like a password or a token with a code that changes every few minutes.

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 all technologies is human error. Human error is what compromises security. Access to a virtual desktop can be done on almost any computer, and anyone with the password or a security token can then gain entry into the system and the sensitive information on it.

Life should be easy. But is not always. But there are ways to make it so.




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