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

Virtualizing the Application

Virtualizing application optimization is the second step in the application optimization process.

Virtualize— Adding a level of abstraction above the provisioned elements of the infrastructure (for instance, the operating system) to provide a more flexible application model

The previous chapter began its review of virtualization referencing the discussions from the introduction and preparing sections. This provided the appropriate context for optimization of the infrastructure through virtualization. The comment was made that the whole idea of designing and preparing for the N1 Grid architecture provides a new paradigm. ...