Virtualization In The Matrix And The Movie Inception

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The textbox explains virtualization in a long technical description but virtualization is basically running another existences inside something. Virtualization is a very “complex and fun” topic in technology because it’s not a physical item but can be manipulated by physical things. The internet could be consider to be virtualization because it is not a physical thing but an abstract intangible object. When people ask me what virtualization is, the first thing that comes to my mind is the movie The Matrix and the movie Inception. Both film have an plot that exist inside a “virtualization”, The Matrix is a simulation running on computers just like how we can combine computers to act as one and run programs like “The Matrix”. The movie Inception is a perfect example of virtualization because you can run an OS inside an OS inside another OS just like in the movie where they go deep into dreams. Virtualization is basically having multiple intangible items house in one physical item. A data center can be anywhere, it’s a fancy name we have giving to a room that house servers …show more content…

Data centers have seen many different types of storage thought years from huge drums to tapes to today’s flash storage. Many of today’s data centers uses some form of RAID on a SAN to house the network’s storage. Virtualization has also help change how data center use and manage storage because before a data center would have many different hard drives for each system but with the RAID as being a part of virtualization, data centers can have multiple hard drive but act as one hard drives. In addition to RAID, virtualize storage has also open the door to off-site “Cloud” based storage for data centers to utilize. Today, data centers can have on-site virtualize servers but have the servers’ hard drives be located on a “cloud” base storage platform as the main storage location or even a backup location for the servers’

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