How Software-Defined Will Your
Data Centre of the Future Be?
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About Me
• Principal Analyst, Neuralytix
• Neuralytix: A leading global
industry analyst & advisory firm
• Previously,
• Worldwide Program VP at IDC
• Storage
• Big Data
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Evolution of the softwaredefined datacentre
3rd Gen
HyperConverged
2nd Gen
Converged
1st Gen
Traditional Infrastructure
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The birth of the SDDC
SDDC Software
(Provides pooling, abstraction, management, automation)
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This is happening quickly!
% of new datacenter installations using SDDC
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
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4th Gen 3rd Gen
HyperConverged
Composable Infrastructure
Almost
completely
software
defined
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Software to control on-premise ↔ cloud
SDDC Software
Pool, Orchestrate, Provision, Deploy, Manage, Automate
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Summary
• Should expect entire datacentre to be completely softwaredriven/software-defined
• Challenges will come because there are so many layers of
abstraction
• Cloud and non-cloud will only differ based on type of data and
required processing
• Otherwise, data and apps will be mobile
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