The Software-Defined Data Center Comes Of Age

October 30th, 2017

Chris Gardner VP, Research Director

Richard Fichera

With contributors:

Glenn O'Donnell , Andre Kindness , Will McKeon-White , Robert Stroud , Diane Lynch

Summary

Traditional data center thinking has ended. Better automation tools, container abstractions, software-defined networks (SDNs), and composable infrastructure have ushered in unprecedented abstraction, yielding the software-defined data center (SDDC). The impact of the SDDC is immense, offering an opportunity to integrate legacy architectures, cloud, and workload-centric architectures into a single automation domain. This report helps infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals understand this vision and defines the current state, opportunity, and emerging vendor landscape of the SDDC. This is an update of a previously published report; Forrester reviews and updates it periodically for continued relevance and accuracy.

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