Foreword
Modern corporations demand a high level of service from their IT environments. Today’s successful datacenter architectures consist of multiple tiers that use well-tuned and high-performance servers at every level.
Sun refers to this as the “end-to-end architecture.” Typical tiers include powerful database servers connected to many application servers, front-ended by web servers that service a wide variety of desktop, thin-client, and wireless devices. This architecture is effective for both Online Transaction Processing and Data Warehousing applications.
The end-to-end architecture is appropriate for environments ranging from large implementations with thousands of processors and hundreds of servers, all the way down to small single-server ...
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