Virtualization is the core of cloud environments, it has become an essential element in the IT infrastructure design of any company. There are many benefits of virtualizing in a cloud environment, some of them are:

• Protection against failure and disaster  
• Ease of data transfer
• Security 
• Efficiency and Productivity
• Development and testing
• Durability
• Cost efficiency 

Virtualization uses software to create a virtual system that mimics hardware functionality. This process enables IT organizations to run multiple virtual systems as well as multiple operating systems and applications distributed across multiple hardware platforms.