In the Software Defined Data Center, application response time trumps infrastructure capacity management

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach.The adoption of software-defined data center (SDDC) technologies is driven by tremendous potential for dynamic scalability and business agility, but the transition is fraught with complexities that need to be considered.This ecosystem relies on the abstraction or pooling of physical resources (primarily compute, network and storage) by means of virtualization. With software orchestrating new or updated services, the promise is these resources can be provisioned in real-time, without human intervention. In essence, this is the technology response to the agility demands of the modern digital business.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here