Software which supports a wide spectrum of business, scientific, engineering and analytical applications being run across a virtualized infrastructure by enabling the applications to request and use resources from a shared resource pool and which can be configured according to user defined business policies, which software can support most application types either directly or through application programming interfaces; software upon which various applications and services can be enabled to use the resources of many separate computers connected by a network, any scalable application that is able to make use of additional resources; software which can be configured through adaptive policies to conform to the end user's environment to allow an end user to specify how specific sources are to be used based on operational requirements; software which dynamically coordinates resources through its resource co-ordination and management capabilities and/or based on user defined policies and can be extended from servers to storage, license management and networks

Support services for installation, configuration and implementation of systems infrastructure software to optimize its benefits to end users, namely, maximizing hardware infrastructure utilization and accelerating throughput of applications in a heterogeneous compute environment