The three pillars of a Software Defined Data Center
In a SDDC, all elements of infrastructure, that is storage, networking, and compute are fully virtualized and delivered as a service. It is described by VMware as "A unified data center platform that provides unprecedented automation, flexibility, and efficiency to transform the way IT is delivered. Compute, storage, networking, security, and availability services are pooled, aggregated, and delivered as software, and managed by intelligent, policy-driven software". An SDDC is the mechanism through which cloud services can be delivered most efficiently. One of the key goals of an SDDC is to build a cloud-based data center. Vendors such as Amazon, Google, IBM, and VMware all have their own set ...
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