By Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Network World Data Center Newsletter, 02/08/05

In the next-generation data center, the utility computing model provides tremendous business agility. If you build your data center on a utility model, it allows you to deploy applications rapidly to meet business goals. If you have a period of unexpected demand, your data center could automatically provision more servers or relocate applications to faster systems. In this environment each server is generic, each application is portable and the data center resources are all virtualized.