From security to ease of access, virtualization is a way of organizing cloud systems and successfully conducting business.

However, there's a strong link between cloud computing and other virtualization strategies, to the point where cloud computing is a logical extension of more advanced internal virtualization efforts.

This realization resulted in AWS rethinking everything about virtualization and computing in the cloud and became the spark for rebuilding their core virtualization platform—from the ground up.

This story, “ Beyond virtualization: Envisioning true cloud computing,” was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Read more of Paul Venezia’s The Deep End blog at InfoWorld.com.

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