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SOFTWARE DEFINED DATA CENTER:
TIME TO REIMAGINE THE CORE
AUTHORS:
Anuj Bhalla
Gaurav ChaturvedI
Manjari Sharma
Table of contents
01
Abstract
02
SDDC Vision
03
Benefits of SDDC
04
SDDC Architecture
05
SDDC Component
06
Software Defined Storage
06
Software Defined Compute
06
Software Defined Facilities
07
Software Defined Security
07
Automation and Orchestration
08
SDDC Vendor EcoSystem
09
SDDC Challenges
0-9
System Integrator: Filling the
Gaps
12
Summary : SI Helping in
Achiving SDDC Vision
13
About the Authors
13
About Global Infrastructure
Services
13
About Wipro Limited
Abstract
The gap between business demands and IT innovation has closed tremendously with needs and turnarounds moving at
the speed of thought. Today's scale, explosion and availability of data has business, expecting a powerful intervention to exploit
it. It is getting difficult to firm up the Data Center roadmap with solutions and products getting launched so rapidly.
This whitepaper attemps to give a perpective on Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) technology and drives
attention to the white spaces and possible gaps which a customer should consider while embarking on this Data Center
Transformation Journey.
“The only thing that is constant is change” by Heraclitus seems to be the
components has helped create this as a perfect platform for supporting,
eternal truth in today’s context. The story of technology is no different.
adopting and nurturing almost all future changes in this industry. This is a
IT has been changing, moreover catering to the changing need of the era,
platform which will enable customer to be agile, flexible, vendor agnostic
whether it is data digitization, process automation, cost optimization or
while optimizing the cost.
agility; an outward ever growing spiral.
It is very important to have a clear roadmap and implement the same in
Now is the time in IT when organizations need to move from a reactive
it`s true sprit to reap the maximum benefits of SDDC. A clear vision,
approach of disruptive change to a more proactive, accommodating and
weighing the benefits, evaluating multiple solutions to defining the
organic approach. They have to inculcate and make change as a
paramount principal of the future technology “platform”. And to achieve
this organizations will have to reimagine the core (Data Center) and
define the pillars of the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) platform.
roadmap and architecture platform of your future Data Center are the
most important pre-requisites of successful deployment. The overall
setup and solution has to be analyzed both from provider and consumer
view point and this makes a consultants role very important to provide
SDDC is a platform which should be imagined to be built on three pillars
an unbiased, vendor agnostic and pragmatic solution. Let us try and have
- hardware, software and standard interfaces. The abstraction of
a broad look at SDDC vision, benefits, and available vendor solutions.
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SDDC Vision
Datacenters have been evolving and innovating perpetually but still
But with the advent of “Software Defined concept”, data centers now
provide siloed infrastructure services. With separate management for
have the vision around which they can evolve to enable IT as true
each components and human intervention required in different phases,
business enabler.
service delivery has become sluggish.
VISION: A Workload centric architecture which will cut across vertical layers throuhg Cloud, Compute,
Storage, Networking and Non-IT (DCIM) to harmess the complete capability of a heterogeneous Infrastructure
& cloud in a variablized consumption model.
TRADITIONAL DC
• Box by Box Management
• Every box has own
• Manual allocation/ de-allocation
of resources
SOFTWARE DEFINED
FEATURES
Abstraction
SOFTWARE DEFINED DC
• Creation of logical layer for boxes/devices to
integrate with single management layer
Central Managernent
• Application centric dynamic allocation
/de-allocation of Infrastructure/resources
Automation
• Application centric dynamic allocation
/de-allocation of Infrastructure/resources
• Programmability deter-mined
by vendor solution
Programmability
• Restful APIs to integrate customized application
• Policy management done at
different set of devices
Policy management
• Policies managed centrally for all kind of devices
• Not much innovation:
heterogeneous vendor devices
managed individually
Instrumentation
• Instrumentation of infra-structure for
monitoring, publishing and intelligent analvtics
• Manual tasks by administrators
consuming time and resources
Orchestration
• Automation of tasks with policy based
optimization & enforcement
Figure 2 SDDC Features
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Benefits of SDDC
Enterprise adoption of SDDC would fulfil the needs of evolving data
driver. Intelligent software controls the hardware configurations and
centres focussed on agility, flexibility, scalability and security along
will help integrate with, and transform the traditional data centres of
with lower total cost of ownership (TCO). Abstraction of software
enterprises, which typically were hardware and device driven.
from the hardware infrastructure layer will continue to be a key
RESOURCE EFFICIENCY
• Reduce over-provisioning of resources
• Use of containers
• Enterprise Investment Protection
• Fewer hardware devices to be
purchased at next refresh cycle
LOWER TCO
• Use of white boxes
• Repurpose/Reutilization of existing hardware
• Automation of mundane tasks
• Use of software instead of hardware
• Less Administrators required
SCALABILITY
• Dynamic allocation of resources
• Ease of Scale in/out/up/down
NO VENDOR LOCK-INS
• SDDC if implemented using open
standards can help in reducing vendor
lock-ins
DISASTER RECOVERY
• Ease of migration of datacenters across
backup DC or public/private cloud
GREEN IT
• Integration of advance power & cooling
control and provision tools with
infrastructure using APIs
MORE INNOVATIONS
• Use of analytics and intelligence
tools to reduce incidents and
problem tickets
SECURITY
• Policy based more granular security
• Self-heal solution
SELF-HEAL
SOLUTIONS
CLOUDFICATION
MORE
INNOVATION
VENDOR
NEUTRALITY
BUSINESS
CONTINUITY
FUTURE
PROOFING
REDUCED
TIME TO
MARKET
EASE OF MANAGEMENT
• Management of devices from a single
pane of glass
• User defined service portals
COMPLIANCE
• Use of API for auditing and Collection
of logs to get faster results which were
done manually before
FLEXIBILITY
• Use of devices of your own choice
• Integrations with existing infrastructure
AGILITY
• Management and provision agility while
optimizing process and costs
• Faster time to market and business
enablement
MOBILITY/PORTABILITY
• Ease of migration of workloads &
resources from datacenter to
public/private cloud
Figure 3 SDDC Benefit
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SDDC Architecture
The architecture which forms the basics of SDx concept is shown in
architecture. The southbound interface which talks to the
Figure1. There are two distinct interfaces in the SDDC high level
infrastructure layer and the northbound interface that speaks to
API
API
North bound Interfaces
Controller/ Management Devices
API
API
API
Infrastructure (Physical/Virtual)
Software Defined Management & Policy
API
Service Models Orchestration & Automation
Application Layer
Controller Layer
South bound Interfaces
Application Layer
Infrastructure
Layer
Figure 4 High Level view of SDDC Architecture
Software Defined Data Center
Software
Defined
Compute
Software
Defined
Storage
Software
Defined
Network
Software
Defined
Facilities
Software Defined Security
Application/Cloud/
Service Portals
Figure 5 Consumption Model of SDDC
cloud, orchestration and management layer. The north-bound
Above dipicted SDDC architecture helps in providing unified view
interface is pretty much standardized as REST APIs (Representational
and management of resources including network, storage, compute,
State Transfer - Application Programming Interface) is present in all
facilities managed securely via automation and orchestration layer
the SDDC controllers that are available today. The southbound
and delivered via service models as shown in figure2.
interface is specific to the vendor’s implementation. Some use open
We will discuss them individually now.
standards based protocols while some use proprietary interfaces.
SaaS Services
PaaS Services
A
IaaS Services
C
Self Service Portal
Cloud Migration
Workload Movement
Policy Engine
A
Orchestration
A
Automation, Workload Management
Cloud Economics
C
Compute
Proprietary Appliance
Network
Proprietary Switching
Agility
Elasticity
Software Defined
Proprietary Appliance
Open Standards
Proprietary OS
Open Architecture
Middleware
Compute
C
Databases
A
E
Proprietary Open OS
C
Proprietary Open Hardware
A
A
Hyperviser/ Container
E
Proprietary Open SW Controller
C
Proprietary Open HW
E
Proprietary Open SW Controller
C
Proprietary Open HW
Public Cloud
E
API Management layer
Service Management Governanace
Security
Meeting - Billing - Chargeback
Cost
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SDDC Component
SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORK
network on a software layer allowing centralized control and
Network Virtualization techniques are not something new in the
abstraction of the underlying complex infrastructure. Theoretically all
network world. VLANs, tunneling, and VPNs have been around for
network nodes would only need the muscle (forwarding or data
quite long. Talking about SDN, following the lines similar to the
plane) to push packets out which results in better management and
software defined concept it intends to centralize all intelligence in the
control over network.
SDN Approaches:
Focus
Implementation
Underlay
Overlay
On virtual and physical network
(Overall Fabric Management)
On hypervisor and uses tunneling
and encapsulation
Puts Software defined network in
every point in your network
On top of existing network
infrastructure, multiple networks
and multiple layers
Hybrid
Combines both
Underlay and
Overlay approach
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Software Defined Storage
Similarly to SDN, different kinds of storage solutions can now be
Storage Resource Manager
managed using storage resource manager which can in turn work with
storage controllers to provide SDDC benefits along with automation
Storage Resource Manger
of storage tiering, de duplication. In short, storage allocation can now
be application driven with faster and optimal storage allocations. SDS
Object
Flash
Block
File
also provides benefits of seamless integration with cloud storage,
migration and archival of storage to public/private cloud or secondary
DC. With enormous increase in storage requirement SDS can
Tier 1
Tier 2
Tier 3
Tier 4
provide an economical solution for backup, disaster recovery, test
and development environment .The savings can be anything between
Storage Controller
20% to 50% both in capital and operating expense.
Storage Infrastructures
Software Defined Compute
Though the compute world has undergone virtualization a decade
Figure 2 SDDC Features
APPs
PAAS
Cloud
SAAS
IAAS
before, but it was specific to compute. SDC talks about abstraction of
virtualization across different layers of physical servers, hosts,
Orchestration & Automation
containers and virtual machines to provide unified management
Concept of containers is not something new, though it has received
VM
Container
Container
Container
Container
Manager
Hypervisor
Physical Servers
VM
function.
lot of attention recently, especially with declaration of support from
many technology leaders. Several startups have popped up to focus
Host OS
on a host of container issues that haven’t been addressed yet, from
storage to networking.
Physical Infrastructure
Containers have brought higher abstraction in virtualization. A
Figure 8 SDC Architecture
Figure). In simple terms, a container does effective OS process
isolation. Containers are ideal tools for those applications that require
agile development and change, horizontal compatibility and scalability.
Software Defined Facilities
With greater storage requirements and increment of virtualization, IT
infrastructure requires more managed and device centric cooling and
power supply. SDDC concept can help in integrating power/cooling
management
tools,
DCIM
tools
(Data
center
Infrastructure
Management), HVAC components (Heating, Ventilating and air
conditioning) to have unified management of facilities of data center
from a single plane of glass. This can help in averting possible device
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Figure 8 SDC Architecture
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failures, reducing the over provisioning of facilities resources and most
importantly better management of resources. This will also help bring
the UPS, cooling, cabling, power monitoring and management to a
central portal integrated with cloud layer.
Software Defined Security
Multiple startups on lines similar to SDDC architecture have come up
with security tools which can have policy or application or resource
based security managed centrally. There are existing vendors also
which provide security management along with their SDx solution.
One of the major concerns in SDDC is security, but SDDC if
implemented properly can help in overcoming existing security
concerns.
Security Challenges
Traditional Approach
SDDC based Approach
New Security
Threats
• Though threat might get detected
but it keeps on spreading across
network and difficult to trace path
• Provides network visibility derived
from centralized configuration and
network state
• Threats are cured mainly manually
• Easier to track and automate cure of
the threats
• Each device must be statically
configured individually
• Perimeter defined through
application-layer concepts (groups,
type of device, etc.)
• All traffic for each physical object
must be monitored, typically using a
single policy
• Traffic can be monitored
independent of the physical location
of the source
• Difficult to achieve in a consistent
manner due to finite resource
availability in the embedded device
Velocity and
Proactive patch
manage-ment
Software Defined Management & Policy
Granular Management
Simplicity
Agility
Dynamic
Low Touch
Configurations
• Virtualized security processing
reduces hardware demands
This layer provides integration of all resources and components we
talked above and automation of their management /allocation from a
single pane of glass.
PAAS
App-Centricity
• Rapid analysis and response to
ever-changing threats without the
need to patch each individual
networking device
Automation and Orchestration
APPs
Visibility
• Continuous, zero-touch centralized
patch management
• Requires proportional increase in
hardware
Scalability
Self-Healing
Cloud
Integration could be with applications, cloud (Public/ Private), IaaS,
PaaS, SaaS, tools involving monitoring, analytics, troubleshooting,
governance, logging, auditing or any other third party tools (provided
they have APIs).
SAAS
3rd
Party Tools
IAAS
Orchestration
Automation
Network
Orchestration
Storage
Orchestration
Compute
Orchestration
Facilities
Orchestration
SDN Controller
SDN Controller
SDN Controller
SDN Controller
Network
Infrastructure
Storage
Infrastructure
Compute
Infrastructure
Facilities
Infrastructure
Software Defined Security
Perimeter Security
Benefits
Figure 9 Automation and Integration in SDDC
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SDDC Vendor EcoSystem
Models
Types
Software Only Model
Cloud based Model
What?
Software without associated
hardware
Pay-as-you-go model
How?
Management, orchestration, controller
software, operating systems, security,
monitoring and logging tools, third party
applications, customized applications etc.
with APIs
• Hosting the SDDC platform
on a public cloud
infrastructure, can also be
delivered as a virtual private
cloud
Converged and Hyperconverged Model
Preconfigured
Systems
Build-your-ow
n-model
Software-centric architecture that tightly
integrates resources and other
technologies in a commodity hardware
box supported by a single vendor
Vendors
Pros
Cons
Communities and
new startups
•
•
•
•
•
Proprietary
Traditional
vendors and
multiple startups
Easy to install
Affordable
Less capex
Granular Features
Modularity
• Some offers cloud
management/orchestration
tools as well
Few existing cloud players and
new startups
Many startups
and few
traditional vendor
collaborations
•
•
•
•
• Preconfigured and tested
solutions from vendors
• Easy adoption
• Hardware and software support
from a single vendor in many
cases
• High scope of
innovation
• Less TCO
• Increased
Flexibility
• New concept
On the fly provision
Pay as per use
No capex
Scale up/down on demand
Mostly traditional
players
• No transparency of
infrastructure
• Inability to make granular upgrades
or tweaks
• Most of the software have their own
HCL list (Hardware compatibility list)
leading to interoperability issues
• General public cloud
concerns like security,
network latency
• Dependence on hardware vendor
to maintain competitive pricing
• Limitation in choosing additional
hardware and dependence on HCL
• Upgradation requires addition of
hardware
Different vendors across
layers of SDDC Architecture
• Hardware boxes
for installation of
SDDC
environment
• Open Compute
• Support of hardware and software
from different vendors
Orchestration &
Cloud Platform
Hardware for
SDDC
• White and
brite boxes
(NetworkDevices)
• Offers APIs for integrations
Open Source
Hardware for
SDDC Solutions
Automation
SDx Orchestration
Controller
New Startups and
traditional players
trying to enter
• Compatibility
guidelines need to
be followed as per
providers
• Inability to make
granular upgrades
or tweaks
Operating System
Infrastructure
Many
Startups &
traditional
players
Mostly
Startups, a few
traditional
players
SDDC VENDOR ECOSYSTEM
Mostly
Traditional
Players
Many Startups
& few traditional
players
Startups &
traditional
players
Crowded
with Startups
& traditional
players
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SDDC Challenges
CHALLENGES
BUYER‘S GUIDE
ENTERPRISE READINESS
• SDDC might be good bet for greenfield projects but introducing SDS in existing
datacenters /brownfield projects requires detailed analysis
Start implementing in green-field projects &
go step by step for brownfield projects
INTEGRATION
• SDDC offers Capability to have integration with any vendor hardware ,any
monitoring, orchestration and cloud Solutions but Integration is challenging and
requires skills and knowledge on various vendors solutions
Analyze the vendor solutions & use cases
and find best fit for your environment
DIFFERENT INTEPRETATIONS
• SDDC has been interpreted by each vendor differently hence there is need to
carefully look at vendor future SDS roadmap , architectural principals before
finalizing any solution
Be Inquisitive and know scope of the
solution offered
HUGE VENDOR ECOSYSTEM
Know what you need and analyze the
solutions carefully
• There are many vendors in SDDC market with different offerings leading to
confusion among end customers
ABSTRACTION NOT ATTRACTIVE
• Abstraction functionality may add more complexity due to the need of extensive
compatibility testing and handling multi-vendor support for escalation and
troubleshooting, thus adding to opex costs.
COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION & SCOPE OF MANAGEMENT
Know the limitations and act accordingly
Know what you need and get detailed
scope of manage-ment of solution offered
• Though there are many vendors with different solutions but a comprehensive
solution is still not available in today’s market
SECURITY
• SDx solutions removes physical layers from the network design and virtualize it, then
replaces it with exposed layer of highly sensitive network , open for attack.
LACK OF CLOUD ECONOMICS
• SDDC though cheaper than traditional but lacks granular and aggressive pricing
offerings like cloud
Know security features offered in your SDx
solution and follow best practices
Know exact TCO savings offered by
vendors as per your environment
System Integrator: Filling the Gaps
Given the wide ecosystem and adoption challenges of SDDC
implementation, there is a requirement of service providers who have
the right skill set to analyze the customer environment, offer best
solution for customers apt to their environment needs, assist in
integration and provide end to end services.
To make sure that system integrators do not create an additional
level of complexity in SDDC environment, they need to evolve and
adapt themselves to facilitate and smooth the SDDC adoption
journey of customers.
Figure 10
Managed
Service
Provider
System
Integrator
Offerings
Testing &
Validatio
n Service
Consulting
& Assessment
System
Integrator
Integration
& Migration
Customized
Application
Development
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1. SDDC impact on organization and their data centers and the value a system integrator can bring in
ORGANIZATION
COMPONENTS
Product
TRADITIONAL APPROACH
SDDC BASED APPROACH
• Infrastructure will be now delivered as service rather
than as individual devices/solutions
• Provide comprehensive solutions and become single POC for
solutions
• Build your own device models, given the modularity
functionality offered by SDDC solutions
• Find the best use case for client and accordingly “integrate the
right things”
• “Datacenter in a Box” solutions for faster adoption
• API development and management tools
• Customized application developments and
integration with existing infrastructure
• Service portals for developers to understand the resource
allocations and management
• DevOps friendly environment
Process
• ITIL Framework of delivery would be changed
• Self-service interfaces/portal rather than manual
administration
• SLAs will be changed as most of tasks will be
automated
• Many processes will be more automated and
delivered as service
• Modification of service delivery process to get best suit for
software defined data center
• Creation of customer specific SLA plans like “create your own
SLA”
• Developing and managing self-help portals as per
requirements
• Identification of the white spaces and automating the
processes to provide more agility
People
• Selling pattern and revenue model of sellers will be
changed
• More aligned to business with very flexible
consumption models
Partners
• Data center services will involve multiple partners
involvement
• Vendor agnostic approach
• Sellers will have to remain on their toes to involve
with new partners and compatibilities with their
solution
Skill Set
Organization
Structure
• Enhance the partner ecosystem
• Contract and relationship management with vendors
• Single window support with ownership of the overall solution
– a Truly Hybrid Cloud on your terms
• Dual skill set ( Development + Administration )
• Provide right skilled resources
• Cloud administration skills
• Provide Training to Customer Staff on Multiple technologies
• Environment will become more service focused
• Can provide consulting and help customers align the
organization structure to the changing trends and needs
• More Level 1 and Level 3 administrators
(Developers + Administration skills) would be
required and level 2 engineers might not be required
• Identify the gaps and help develop required sill set
• New designations like cloud service architects,
service experts would rise
System
• Data/ Resources will be more mobile ( movement
from public/private cloud)
• Develop APIs which could be integrated to provide security
standard specific desired results
• Security compliance concerns would increase
• Help in App rationalization and containerization to foster
portability of applications across different environments
• Infrastructure will become more app-centric
Strategy
• Changes in service models will be observed Pay as
you use / Pay per consumption models would rise
• Flexible and open based solutions will be preferred
• Provide customized service delivery models and solutions
• Deliver an open environment based solution open to new
solutions
• SI are rightly placed to provide help in true consumerization of IT
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2. How SI can help in SDDC adoption and optimize the delivery process
• Simulator Labs to provide tested and proven solution
as every customer’s environment is different from each
other
• Discovery tool to identify customer
environment’s readiness for SDDC
deployment
• Vendor Agnostic While choosing best solution for
customers, SIs have to be vendor agnostic and evaluate
neutrally to provide best solution for customers
• TCO calculator to educate customer
how different SDN solutions reduce
customer’s Capex and Opex and
whether the investment in SDN is worth
or not
• Disaster Recovery Providing the best solution to have
feasibility of failing over to secondary DC or to Public or
Private Cloud
• API Development Identifying the gaps
and develop custom APIs to integrate
with southbound and northbound
interfaces
• Feedback Loop Providing mechanism to
provide customized services on basis of
feedback from application
PLAN
TEST
• Automatize Provision
Finding the gaps and automatize the migration
and deployment process
OPTIMIZE
DEPLOY
SUPPORT
& MANAGE
• Integration of various infrastructure with
controller and orchestration layer tools
• Integrating the right things
Best solution for customer specific environment
• Vertical Integration
Integration of SDN, SDC, SDN, SDsec,
SDF to provide holistic SDDC solution
• API Management Tools To provide
management of the APIs versions
• Communities Membership To stay
abreast with latest developments and to
contribute in SDDC community, SIs can be
part of groups like ONF, IEEE, IETF,
OpenStack, OpenDayLight, OEM’s
Appstores
• Automatize Provision
Finding the gaps and automatize the migration
and deployment process
• Integration of various infrastructure with
controller and orchestration layer tools
• Integrating the right things
Best solution for customer specific
environment
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Summary : SI Helping in
Achiving SDDC Vision
SDDC provides vision for today’s data center solutions and most
in reducing those adoption challenges and can give a comprehensive
importantly provides great opportunity in channelizing existing data
solution to reap the best benefits of SDDC.
center solutions to provide agility, scalability, app-centricity and
programmability which resonates with what is required from today’s
business.
Figure 11 shows some gist & recap of how SI can help in adoption
journey
“Change may be risky but routine will be lethal” .Though the
adoption may have few challenges, but a System Integrator can help
Virtualized
Controlled & Managed by
smart Softwares
Delivered as service
VISION
MISSION
OBJECTIVES
STRATEGY
ACTION PLAN
Ease the journey
of Adoption
Comprehensive
Solution
Application
Centricity
Devops friendly
environment
Integrate the
right things
Tested & Proven
Solution
Integration as Service
Automatize
New Skill set
Vendor
Agnostic
Vertical
Integration
Identify
white spaces
Figure 8 Roadmap for achieving SDDC benefits
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About the Authors
Anuj Bhalla is a Vice President and Global Business Head for -System Integration, Maintenance Services, and Products in
Global Infrastructure Services, Wipro Limited. His recent initiatives have been Wipro Open Data Center, SDI Center of
Excellence launched recently in Bangalore Wipro Campus, under his belt, which is first for any System Integrator or Technology
Provider in the country.
With over 20 years of Professional Experience across the entire spectrum of IT including Business Development, Practice
Development, Pre-Sales & Delivery, to IT Strategy, Transformation especially on new areas like Hybrid Cloud, Open Source /
Open Stack and IOT. Also, he is in the panel of their Partner Advisory board. Joined in as a trainee graduate from Symbiosis, Pune in 1996 , he has
grown ranks and has been instrumental in turning around various businesses that he has spearheaded within Wipro. He is proven to be a
transformational leader rolling out initiatives on Telecom Support or new areas of Open Source namely in Open-stack, Cloud, SDX, and SD to
cover a few.
Gaurav Chaturvedi is an experienced engineering graduate and IT professional with 14+ years of experience in Enterprise IT
services encompassing System Integration, Support services, Service Delivery, Datacenter Architecture, and Pre-sales, have strong
tecno-commeritial understanding and have design large complex DC Transformation solutions and delivery. He has handled various
roles in delivery, pre-sales & practice, he is passionate about technology and have been instrumental in launching and help driving
the new practice successfully. He is currently heading Software Defined Infrastructure (Open Data Center) CoE leading development, integration,
Validation and testing of multiple SDDC, SDS, SDN solutions and tools.
Manjari Sharma has been a part of the Global 100 Intern program at Wipro and is currently enrolled in the Post Graduate Program
at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, Before starting her management journey, she worked for five and a half years in
infrastructure management services at IT majors such as Infosys and Wipro. Her experience is primarily in computing and Network
platform. She has a keen interest in Technology and Marketing.
About Global Infrastructure Services
Global Infrastructure Services (GIS), a unit of Wipro Limited, is an end to end IT infrastructure & outsourcing services provider to global customers across
60 countries. Its suite of Technology Infrastructure services spanning Data Center, End User Computing, Networks, Managed Services, Business Advisory
and Global System Integration. Wipro, is a pioneer in Infrastructure Management services and is amongst the fastest-growing providers across the world.
GIS enables customers to do business better by enabling innovation via standardization and automation, so that businesses can be more agile & scalable,
so that they can find growth and succeed in their global business. Backed by our strong network of Integrated ServiceNXT™ Operation Centers and 14
owned data centres spread across US, Europe and APAC, this unit serves more than 700+ clients across with a global team of 32,000+ professionals and
contributes to over 28% of Wipro’s IT Services revenues of Wipro Limited.
About Wipro Limited
Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT) is a leading information technology, consulting and business process services company that delivers solutions to enable
its clients do business better. Wipro delivers winning business outcomes through its deep industry experience and a 360 degree view of "Business
through Technology.” By combining digital strategy, customer centric design, advanced analytics and product engineering approach, Wipro helps
its clients create successful and adaptive businesses. A company recognized globally for its comprehensive portfolio of services, strong
commitment to sustainability and good corporate citizenship, Wipro has a dedicated workforce of over 160,000, serving clients in 175+ cities
across 6 continents. For more information, please visit www.wipro.com
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