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2. The virtual environment that emulates a physical computer’s hardware and BIOS.
4. The ability to run a virtual machine on a virtual machine.
5. A cloud computing service provided by a company’s internal IT department. See cloud computing.
7. OS designed to emphasize network access performance and run background processes rather than desktop applications.
9. A cloud computing service provided by a third party. See cloud computing.
11. The software for creating and managing virtual machines and creating the virtual environment in which a guest OS is installed.

1. A method for creating virtual disks whereby the virtual disk expands dynamically and uses space from the storage pool as needed until it reaches the specified maximum size.
3. A sector of private cloud computing whereby users access their desktops through a private cloud; the OS and applications run on servers in a corporate data center rather than on the local computer.
6. A server that provides processing, storage, networking, and memory resources needed to run an application, usually as a virtual machine and often as a cluster member.
8. The virtualization software component that creates and monitors the virtual hardware environment, which allows multiple virtual machines to share physical hardware resources.
10. A technology that uses software to emulate multiple hardware environments, allowing multiple operating systems to run on the same physical server simultaneously.