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

Operational Management Capabilities Model

The sections in this chapter have identified several areas of opportunity and focus to define and prepare an N1 Grid solution. Sun's technologies for automating the virtualization and provisioning of applications (or other layers of the stack) are ready to help you create efficiencies in your data center or extend those solid efficiencies into areas of strategic business flexibility. While these new capabilities require a level of rigor in architecture, business process, and security, the benefits of doing this work are clear. Implicit in this rigor and change is the impact on process and people—the processes that become automated and the new ways that people architect, implement, and manage business ...