Virtual portals, realms, and cluster partitioning

As part of both portal application development efforts for the different lines of business (on the Call Center Desktop Integration and Banking Core systems), the use of virtual portal was a governance and enterprise-level-driven decision. The business driver behind this decision was the prospect of lowering the total cost of ownership on number of licenses paid per processor or CPU. This is because portal licenses are based on CPU cores activated. The technical and architectural reasons behind the adoption of virtual portals were to establish a design pattern and architectural option for future A2Z application portal application tenants. The same portal, when installed, would run on Blade 7, 64-bit UNIX, Linux, or AIX-based systems. Virtual portals as decided by the portal governance would be leveraged for the A2Z lines of business. Along with custom look and feel, and navigation schemes, virtual portals allow for attending different user...