Building N1 Grid Solutions: Preparing, Architecting, and Implementing Service-Centric Data Centers 
by Jason Carolan, Scott Radezsky, Paul Strong, and Ed Turner
September, 2004
336 pages
ISBN 0-13-148201-7
The N1 Grid is Sun's vision, strategy and architecture, as well as a set of products, that redefine the nature of data center computing. The N1 Grid architecture uses the network, physically and logically, as its fundamental organizing principle. It is about understanding the challenges inherent in delivering services and managing today's complex IT infrastructures, recognizing the various technology and business trends that have led us here. By reconciling these challenges and trends, the N1 Grid architecture leads us to the conclusion that a fundamental shift is required in our understanding, architecting, and management of the data center so that the economics of delivering services can be radically changed. The book starts with an overview of how the N1 Grid architecture came about and takes the reader through the process of preparing, architecting, and implementing data center infrastructure that realizes the N1 Grid architecture vision and enables services and value to be delivered more efficiently and more flexibility today, while preparing for future technologies.
This book is separated into four parts, each of which includes chapters that describe how to realize a service-centric datacenter:
- Part 1, Introducing N1 Grid Solutions
- Chapter 1, Context for the Vision
- Chapter 2, Vision and Strategy
- Chapter 3, Realizing the Vision
- Part 2, Preparing for N1 Grid Solutions
- Chapter 4, Definition and Preparation
- Chapter 5, Measurable Requirements
- Chapter 6, Analysis
- Part 3, Architecting N1 Grid Solutions
- Chapter 7, Strategic Flexibility
- Chapter 8, Infrastructure Optimization
- Chapter 9, Application Optimization
- Chapter 10, Datacenter Optimization
- Chapter 11, Virtualized Service-Centric IT Environment
- Part 4, Implementing N1 Grid Solutions
- Chapter 12, Telecom Case Study
- Chapter 13, Implementation Products
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