The article being reviewed is Virtualization Management Brings the Ultimate in Efficiency which was written by Frank Ohlhorst on 22nd December 2011. The article featured in the Virtualization Technology News. The article mainly revolves around the management of virtualization and shows how it brings about efficiency in the long run. The author manages to satisfactorily present his arguments to the reader in an original manner and a systematic way that makes it very easy for the reader to understand the concept being portrayed. The originality of the article is evident especially in the way the author introduces his work and as he shows the developments that have taken place in virtualization. The author further incorporates outside sources which are mainly contributions from professionals in the field of virtualization. Some of the professionals who have their contributions cited in the article include Frank Marshall who is the Director of the Global Retail Support for The Estée Lauder Companies (Ohlhorst, 2011). The author does not use his contributions at the beginning of the article but introduces the article from his own perspective which depicts a lot of originality of the work. He used Marshall’s contributions to stress on the fact that deploying virtualization has a lot of challenges but its success only depends on the way the whole process of virtualization is implemented.
The author mainly uses direct quotations from the professionals in order to bring about the concepts clearly or give some kinds of explanations. Srinivas Ramathan who is the Chief Executive officer of eG innovations has also been quoted adversely in the article to show the importance of virtualization. This article can be used as citations for academic work since the author has carried a lot of research and most of the work presented in the article is backed up by support from professional and other peer reviewed articles thus making it authentic.
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