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The vision is to create virtual, dynamic organizations through secure,
coordinated resource sharing among individuals, institutions, and resources.
Grid computing is an approach to distributed computing that spans locations,
organizations, machine architectures, and software boundaries.
Figure 3-2 on page 29 depicts virtualization as a set of virtualized resource pools
based on:
Servers
This category includes partitioning, hypervisors, VM OS, emulators, I/O
virtualization, virtual Ethernet, and so forth.
Storage
Here, the focus is on the addition of intelligence and value in the network.
Distributed systems ...