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All components of a software-defined data centre – including compute, storage, networking and security – are virtualised, or decoupled from specific physical hardware.
Software-defined Data Centre Definition
Sometimes called "virtual data centres," software-defined data centres consist of fully virtualised computing infrastructure that can be easily managed by software in an automated fashion. The abstraction of CPU, networking, storage and security allow flexible pools of resources to be seamlessly allocated across workloads as needed, which in turn allows IT to become highly elastic and scalable with highly simplified operations.
What are the Advantages of a Software-defined Data Centre?
Software-defined data centres have several key benefits for businesses:
- Hardware Elimination: With the SDDC model, businesses no longer need to purchase hardware, acquire vendor-specific skills to maintain and operate it, or manage upgrades to physical machines. SDDCs eliminate siloed technology and simplify management.
- Cost Reduction: The efficiencies SDDCs create by fluidly adjusting resources to balance workloads boost overall capacity and significantly reduce costs. Ease of management allows DevOps professionals to spend their time on profit-generating initiatives.
- Single-interface Management: Software-defined data centres can be managed from a simple, business-friendly dashboard, which gives users greatly improved visibility into capacity. Data centre management no longer requires programming skills.
- IT Automation: SDDCs allow for "infrastructure as code," which in turns allows for a high degree of automation in resource provisioning and code deployment. This speeds IT operations and makes compliance easier to maintain.
How Does the SDDC relate to IT as a Service (ITaaS)?
Software-defined data centres are what enable infrastructure and IT to be offered as a services (IaaS and ITaaS, respectively.) Providers bundle computing resources, management tools, and varying levels of support, then sell access on a usage-level basis.
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