A new type of software-based application environment - the application fabric - is successfully and cost-effectively meeting the requirements of today most demanding applications. By delivering high-levels of scalability and reliability across a virtualized "fabric" of commodity-class computers, application fabrics are eliminating the onceaccepted trade-offs among application scalability, dependability, manageability and affordability.
Related to Application Fabric: Emulation and Virtualization, Grid and Utility Computing, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Appistry