Network Design and Management Trends 2 In this paper, you will research and report on network design and management trends over the last three years (present year minus 2) in the areas of virtualization, security, hardware, network management tools, software defined networking, and wireless. Choose, at least, three areas and explain the general trend and trends within two subsets of the area (i.e., security has subsets of physical, perimeter, monitoring) over the last three years. Use at least one figure from Google Trends showing a trend discussed in your paper. Support your information and make sure all information sources are appropriately cited.

a)Virtualization Virtualization is becoming one of the biggest game-changers in the IT industry, as more companies come to rely on the benefits it provides at every level of business operations. Across the world, organizations of every size are making the move to virtual, cloud-based and hybrid systems that cut down their costs while improving business continuity and IT management processes( Albert, 2016). There are have been a number of changes in the field, right from the way virtualization monitoring is conducted to how resources are stored internally or externally, to improve service and application provisioning as well as network uptime. As the technology evolves, newer trends keep coming to the forefront, and will continue to do so as long as virtualization remains in use. This has been one of the main areas of focus in the last decade, and many companies have completely switched to hosting their server and computing needs on the cloud instead of physical resources (Goransson, & Black, 2014)