Term for limiting amount of VMs in your environment to only what is needed and keeping well-maintained documentation for provisioning and deprovisioning

Hypervisor type: Runs an application without launching an entire VM (only uses resources necessary to run the app)

Hypervisor type: Runs on top of an existing OS

Hypervisor type: Doesn't need an operating system and is just loaded on to hardware directly

Term for limiting access and communication of VMs on the network. (virtual machines should not be able to contact any other hosts controlling the VM)

Virtualize the user's desktop and run it in the data center. All of the computing power is in the data center so the end user's operating system becomes less important as long as it can run the remote desktop software.

Applying company's IT security policy frameworks to data being used in the cloud

Cloud deployment models: on demand software with no local installation - all data is in the cloud and you don't need to maintain the applcation.

Cloud deployment models: Someone handles the platform, but you handle the development. You don't have direct control of the data, people or infrastructure

Cloud deployment model: Your own virtualized local data center

Cloud deployment model: Outsource your equipment. You are still responsible for the manage and for the security of the data