Oracle offers the most complete portfolio of end-to-end virtualization solutions available today. With full stack management from applications to disk, Oracle solutions can help companies consolidate systems, gain greater efficiency, rapidly deploy solutions, and more. Each virtualization technology comes with its own set of advantages ? making it important to understand when and how they can best be deployed. Providing varying degrees of flexibility, availability, and security, these technologies can be used separately or together to effect better resource utilization and reduce infrastructure complexity. Solutions are available at every layer of the infrastructure ? from operating system and resource virtualization, to virtual machines and hard partitioning, to desktops and storage.