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1. Look at the news and answer the questions:

– What is hardware virtualization?

– How can it help companies?

– What are the possible risks of cloud hardware virtualization?

– Do you think that hardware virtualization is an ideal computing environment of the future? Why?

2. Read the text and tick the topics which were mentioned:

Hardware virtualization is a technology that allows the hardware elements to be divided into multiple virtual machines. Sometimes hardware virtualization is executed on a particular hardware platform by host software. It requires a hypervisor which is used in order to maintain the virtual environment by creating virtual versions of hardware. Most common examples of desktop virtualization products are the following: Vmware, VirtualBox, and Parallels.