1. A system of portable and flexible deployment of dedicated and virtual servers comprising: a plurality of geographically-dispersed data centers each comprising: at least one pod including: a plurality of dedicated servers; a plurality of hosts operable to host a plurality of virtual servers; a management workstation operable to capture dedicated and virtual server images; an image repository operable to store the captured server images; and an intra-data center networking infrastructure enabling communication within the pod; an integrated management system operable to control and manage deployment of server images to dedicated and virtual servers located in a user-specified data center; and an inter-data center networking infrastructure enabling communication between the plurality of data centers.