The Evolution of Enterprise Computing
Analyzing how today's data center evolved provides some clues as to how these problems came about. The data center is at the heart of enterprise computing, and it is the evolution of enterprise computing that defines today's data center. The history of enterprise computing can be viewed from two perspectives:
That of the applications or services delivered to the business
That of the infrastructure on which those services run
Applications, now generally thought of as services, have evolved to deliver greater and greater value, changing from simple stand-alone batch workloads, to interactive terminal sessions, to client-server applications, and finally to web services. As they have evolved, their implementation ...
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