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

Architecture and Strategic Flexibility

So far, the vision of the N1 Grid has been presented. In addition, an extensive review of the many tasks that an organization must consider has been presented. Finally, there is a specific goal of strategic flexibility. With all that as background, the temptation is to move straight to an implementation design. That would be a mistake because architecture matters.

Although there is broad expertise in system design and implementation in the personnel that typically manage a data center, too often there is a limited focus on architecture. That is not an indictment against the IT operations staff. It is simply a result of typical daily operations. The architectural work used to develop most of the IT services ...