Almost one year into the discussion about the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), it is time to take inventory of the state of the discipline. As a reminder, the ultimate goal of the SDDC is to abstract and centralize the
management of compute, network, storage, operating systems, middleware and applications in order to dynamically place workloads where they can run in the most cost efficient, secure and compliant manner.
The Software Defined Datacenter: Part 4 of 4 – Where We Are Today
By Torsten Volk on Mar 26, 2013 3:58:50 PM
Topics:
IBM
IT Management
VMware
Systems Management
CloudStack
Nicira
EMC
Hyper-V
network virtualization
OpenFlow
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The Software-Defined Datacenter: Part 2 of 4 – Core Components
By Torsten Volk on Aug 22, 2012 5:37:52 PM
In part 1 of this series of four posts, we examined the grand vision of the software-defined datacenter (SDD). In this second post of the series, we will take a look at the core components of the SDD (see Figure 1) and provide a brief evaluation of how mature these components currently are.
Topics:
IT service management
cloud
SDN
Systems Management
Automation
Storage Automation
network virtualization
Software Defined Datacenter
Storage Virtualization
SDD
Cloud Administration
storage hypervisor
storage virtualization
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