Top Benefits of Software-defined Datacenters

The new data center strategies are being prepared keeping in mind the cloud requirements of a company. There is ample focus on the private and public cloud. Organizations are making their data centers ready for the hybrid model. According to EMC India SMAC findings, organizations are increasingly moving to the cloud, with 76% now agreeing that combining public and private cloud can improve security and agility. However, the challenge for enterprise IT is that it can be difficult to bring together the performance, security, compliance, and control of private cloud with the flexibility of public cloud while maintaining interoperability and visibility.


Three major building blocks of SDDC are network virtualization, storage virtualization, and server virtualization.

According to an IDC report commissioned by VMware titled 'Empowering Organizations in a Software Defined World,’ an estimated $4 bn is expected to be avoided between 2014 and 2020 with a software defined approach to manage IT in India. Clearly, though at nascent stage, Indian enterprises are realizing the benefits of SDDC within the Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Software Defined Storage (SDS) markets and its potential to realign the capabilities of the internal IT department with the elastic and agile demands of businesses.

Key Benefits
Streamlining the Datacenter: SDDC provides tremendous benefits for all enterprises that struggle with datacenter management, especially those with limited IT resources and will be the foundation of next generation of cloud computing and cloud-based services. Most importantly, it dramatically simplifies processes and increases the speed of appropriating and provisioning networking, server and storage resources, enabling an organization to become more flexible, a   gile and responsive to customers. With automated policy-based provisioning, application deployment can occur in minutes—or even seconds.

Automating the Datacenter: SDDC conserves hardware and staff resources and is a very cost-effective method. This allows staff to focus on business-critical technology innovation instead of routine management tasks and the infrastructure to be used more efficiently.

Improved Security: Trust is of utmost importance for mobile, cloud, big data, and social environments and it is set to drive next-generation datacenter technology ahead. Compliance with security policies and mandates, is ensured with the help of unified monitoring of datacenters as it provides a holistic outlook of data resources and eliminates fragmented monitoring.

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