Today’s business world is becoming ever more reliant on the data centre, which has become the heart of any modern organization. With virtualization and cloud computing proliferation, we are hearing that this is a great time to transform the data centre and empower organizations in the process.
So if you’re contemplating a Software Defined Data Centre (SDDC) journey, the natural next step would be to evaluate the effectiveness of your past investments in virtualization and what challenges were created. From server sprawl to operational efficiencies, the virtualization model helped unlock a tremendous potential in technology and business agilities by meeting precise deadlines and knocking down silos of technologies in the data centre. However, on the flip side it also created new demands. Faster request processing, faster provisioning, faster enablement, faster decommissioning to name a few.
Automation in the Data Centre
In today’s IT departments, any manual task that requires to be executed repetitively over and over by an IT resource needs to be replaced by automation so that this resource and talent can be put to better use in new project deployments. SDDC will help your organization meet increased demands, provide a high degree of agility and flexibility to the infrastructure and be a competitive differentiator for your business.
The SDDC challenge
Virtualization is central to the software-defined and truly automated data centre. The transition to the SDDC is not just another cool technology — it’s actually an architecture designed to get the resources you need, when you need them at a cost factor that is more economical. The SDDC really delivers business benefits that make it compelling and therefore requires serious consideration.
Actually, the SDDC is only emerging now because up until recently, there was no compute, storage, and networking hardware with the capacity to accommodate the overhead of virtualizing everything. Building a SDDC to pool and automate compute, storage, networking, security and other services through a unified software platform can ultimately simplify IT operations and potentially lower costs significantly. Organisations can realise cost savings and a Return on Investment (ROI) that increase at various stages along the journey.
To find out more about SDDC, I have listed a few assets I found informative:
VIDEO: VMware SDDC: IT Architecture for the Cloud Era
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Roger Osmond,
President, Sentia