Type 1 vs. Type 2 Hypervisors: What’s the Difference?

Type 1 vs. Type 2 Hypervisors: What’s the Difference?

One firm wants to allow its employees to access their files and applications from anywhere. The IT team at a second company is focused on its disaster recovery strategy, and a third organization has yet another goal: to improve use of its on-premises data center. At all three companies, the solution involves hypervisors, a technology invented in the late 1960s that’s now considered critical to modern IT infrastructure. Here’s a rundown of what h…