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10 Ways to Use Virtual Teams
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There is a lot of talk about virtual teams, virtual offices, virtual storage and virtual worlds these days. What is meant when we use the term “virtual”? Answers.com defines it as:

Existing or resulting in essence or effect though not in actual fact, form, or name: the virtual extinction of the buffalo.

So if we can achieve something that has an effect that is similar in quality to the “actual” entity, we call it virtual. Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud represents computing power and storage that doesn’t actually reside in your office, but which you can access to run your applications. Second Life is a virtual world which doesn’t actually exist in the physical world, but simulates a lot of what can happen in the physical world. Finish reading this article here.