A heterogeneous and cost effective software based business continuity framework for integrated applications in a computing environment. The closure includes a top having a depending skirt. In this case, a first air stream which is to be dehumidified flows through the first cavity. Furthermore, by operating the group membership token on a separate machine, or preferably a separate virtual machine from the local component, security is further improved. Preferably, a shoulder extends radially inward on the inward facing side of the outer annular wall above a level of the standing ring to facilitate vertical stacking of containers having like bases. The low level data structures are used to map the allocated data blocks to the stripe set and when the stripe set is full it is sent to the data storage devices.