Usage Of Virtualization Technologies In Long-Term Preservation Of Integrity And Accessibility Of Digital Data

The concept of virtualization making a transition from expensive hardware systems over to the affordable software field, capabilities that modern virtualization environments allow are becoming multidimensional and not many software designers can allow their applications not to include some type of virtualization system compatibility. Many applications allow virtualization systems to utilize them in such a manner that the performance is increased rather than hindered, and the level of collaboration among the users to be increased. Distribution of information, resources as well as entire operating environments can be very successfully and appropriately applied and used in systems for maintaining authenticity and preserving long term usability of data. The authors analyse requirements and suggest some initial high-level architectural solutions for the users of virtualization in the long term preservation process.