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Like most software terms, the term virtualization is becoming hopelessly overloaded.  As pointed out in a recent article, a definition of the different types of virtualization can be hard to come by.  When people see the Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric (EAF) solution one of the first things they think of is application virtualization.  In this post I will try to resolve the confusion by detailing some of the key EAF features and how they relate to virtualization.  We will see that the EAF properties that promote scale, reliability, and maintenance of your fabric are better known as service virtualization.

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