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The benefits of virtualization in cloud computing center on better use of hardware, lower costs, faster rollout of resources, and stronger continuity during outages. By allowing many virtual machines to run on one physical server, organizations raise utilization, scale with speed, secure workloads through isolation, and manage systems with far less friction.
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The benefits of virtualization in cloud computing center on better use of hardware, lower costs, faster rollout of resources, and stronger continuity during outages. 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