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

The Systemic Approach

Having described the rationale and context for the N1 Grid strategy, it is now appropriate to define the vision and strategy more rigorously. The N1 Grid vision provides the context for understanding today's service architectures and data center implementations, along with the benefits and problems inherent in them. This vision is the basis for asserting that collections of interconnected components within the data center (for instance, servers, network, storage switches, storage arrays, firewalls, and load balancers) constitute a new class of system. That system does not exist in isolation. It is still a part of the wider grid, or network of resources, both within an enterprise and beyond. The trend towards network-centric ...