In this IBM Developer Works article, M. Tim Jones does an excellent job of sorting through the alphabet soup of the many facets of virtualization. From the abstract:

Virtualization means many things to many people. A big focus of virtualization currently is server virtualization, or the hosting of multiple independent operating systems on a single host computer. This article explores the ideas behind virtualization and then discusses some of the many ways to implement virtualization. We also look at some of the other virtualization technologies out there, such as operating system virtualization on Linux.

We'd also like to point out Tim Feeman's Virtualization and Grid Computing blog. If you want to keep your finger on the absolute latest in virtualization you'll make this a frequent stop.

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