Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Computer Science - Applied, grade: 1, , course: Virtualization, Cloud & Building a Private Cloud, language: English, abstract: This book takes you through two of the most important innovations happened in the past couple years. The first chapter will give you an overview of Virtualization technology and how it transferred our physical data centers to virtualized ones. The second chapter covers some topics in the Cloud Computing world, mainly private cloud. The third chapter takes you through the steps of building a private cloud using Microsoft technologies like System Center 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 R2. It is the implementation of my own design which I have done for my school. I hope you will enjoy it.