The Geeky Part
Sun Microsystems, HP, and IBM have all been driving initiatives to manage multiple computers more efficiently, capitalizing on that unused capacity. At Sun Microsystems, this technology is called N1. N1's concept is that it treats the disparate boxes in a customer's data center as one pool of resources. Just as a single server operating system in an individual server manages resources, schedules jobs, and deals with certain types of failures, N1 does this for many resources.
The difference is that, whereas a computer's operating system manages components such as microprocessors, memory, and disks, N1 manages the components of the network itself: servers, storage, firewalls, and load balancers. The idea is rather than dispatch a ...
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