Buliding N1™ Grid Solutions Preparing, Architecting, and Implementing Service-Centric Data Centers

A Systemic Solution

The problems associated with managing today's data center infrastructure are a consequence of typical architectures and a set of technology trends. Server-centric applications have evolved into network-centric services, and the data center network has become a fabric of resources, rather than a network of discrete systems. It is this latter observation that is key to providing a solution.

The previously mentioned trends indicate that services are deployed and managed within the context of the data center network and that the data center network is the context for the fabric of resources onto which these services are mapped. Thus, the problems with managing infrastructures today are perhaps less those of managing a collection ...