possible: application fabrics. Application fabrics deliver on the promise of "real-time" grid computing, virtualization and utility computing, and are applicable to the most demanding CPU- and data- intensive applications in the enterprise. An application fabric provides a software-based environment that simultaneously delivers scalability, dependability, manageability and affordability for time-critical applications. Compared to the traditional grid computing approach, application fabrics
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