42 Introduction to the New Mainframe: Large-Scale Commercial Computing
3.2.3 Provisioning
Traditionally, to provision meant to stock needed materials or supplies; especially
a stock of food.
In information technology, the provisioning concept can be aligned to the
scalability concept. It refers to how adaptable a system can be, to add more
resources when needed, without disruption.
Provisioning is the end-to-end capability to automatically deploy and dynamically
optimize resources in response to business objectives in heterogeneous
environments. Provisioning helps to respond to changing business conditions by
enabling the ability to dynamically allocate resources to the processes that most
need them, as driven by business policies. Provisioning ...