1. A method for configuring a system, comprising: receiving, at a system comprising at least a processor and memory, a configuration causing said processor to configure a boot partition in said memory, said boot partition including trusted boot software (T-Boot), a temporary file system, kernel software and a virtual machine manager (VMM); executing, using at least said processor, said T-Boot to perform software initialization on said system, wherein said software initialization comprises building a root partition and building a virtual machine (VM) partition, and wherein components needed for said software initialization are obtained from a local application store on network area storage (NAS); and cloning, using at least said processor, said software initialized system, wherein said cloned system is available for configuration and initialization of subsequent systems.