2.0 Utility Computing Hosting Centers
A utility computing hosting center allows an organization to provide resources or services to customers where the resources or services are custom-tailored to the needs of the customer. Typically, supporting true utility computing requires creating a hosting center with one or more of the following capabilities:
- Secure remote access
- Guaranteed resource availability at a fixed time or series of times
- Integrated auditing/accounting/billing services
- Tiered service level (QoS/SLA) based resource access
- Dynamic compute node provisioning
- Full environment management over compute, network, storage, and application/service
based resources
- Intelligent workload optimization
- High availability, failure recovery, and automated re-allocation