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Software-defined data center
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'Software-defined data center (SDDC)'
is a vision for IT infrastructure that
extends virtualization concepts such
as abstraction, pooling, and
automation to all of the data center’s
resources and services to achieve IT
as a service (ITaaS).
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Software-defined data center
In a software-defined data center, all
elements of the infrastructure —
networking, storage, CPU and security –
are virtualized and delivered as a service.
While ITaaS may represent an outcome of
SDDC, SDDC is differently cast toward
integrators and datacenter builders rather
than toward tenants. Software awareness
in the infrastructure is not visible to
tenants.
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Software-defined data center
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Because it is a vision with many possible
implementation scenarios, SDDC support
can be claimed by a wide variety of
approaches. Critics see the softwaredefined data center as a marketing tool
and “software-defined hype”, noting this
variability.
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Software-defined data center
Analysts project that at least some
software-defined data center
components will experience strong
market growth in the near future. The
software-defined networking market is
expected to be valued at about USD $3.7
billion by 2016, compared to USD $360
million in 2013. International Data
Corporation|IDC estimates that the
Software defined storage|softwaredefined storage market is poised to
expand faster than any other storage
market.
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Software-defined data center - Description and core components
The software-defined data center
encompasses a variety of concepts and
data center infrastructure components,
and each component can be provisioned,
operated, and managed through an
application programming interface (API).
The core architectural components that
comprise the software-defined data center
include the following:
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Software-defined data center - Description and core components
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* Management and automation software,
enabling an administrator to provision,
control, and manage all software-defined
data center components.
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Software-defined data center - Description and core components
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A software-defined data center is not
the same thing as a private cloud,
since a private cloud only has to offer
VM self-service, beneath which it
could use traditional provisioning and
management. Instead, it imagines the
data center that can encompass
private, public, and hybrid clouds.
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Software-defined data center - Origins and development
Realizing the promise of the softwaredefined data center could “only begin to
happen now,” because until recently data
centers lacked the compute, storage, and
networking hardware with the capacity to
fully accommodate virtualization.
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Software-defined data center - Origins and development
Some observers believe that
companies began laying the
foundation for software-defined data
centers with virtualization. Ben
Cherian of Midokura considers
Amazon Web Services as a catalyst for
the move toward software-defined
data centers because it
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Software-defined data center - Potential impact
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the traditionally infrastructure-centric
data center, with its focus on ensuring
the proper operation of compute,
network, and storage elements, into an
application or business service focused
environment.…The [software-defined
data center] purely revolves around
application workload demands, allowing
business users to deploy and run their
applications in the most efficient and
SLA compliant manner.
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Software-defined data center - Potential impact
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The potential of the software-defined data
center is that companies will no longer need
to rely on specialized hardware or hire
consultants to install and program hardware
in its specialized language. Rather, IT will
define applications and all of the resources
they require—including compute, storage,
networking, security, and availability—and
group all of the required components to
create a “logical application.”
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Software-defined data center - Potential impact
Commonly cited benefits of softwaredefined data centers include improved
efficiencies from extending virtualization
throughout the data center; increased
agility from provisioning applications
quickly; improved control over application
availability and security through policybased governance; and the flexibility to
run new and existing applications in
multiple platforms and clouds.
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Software-defined data center - Potential impact
In addition, a software-defined data
center implementation could reduce a
company’s energy usage by enabling
servers and other data center hardware
to run at decreased power levels or be
turned off. Some believe that softwaredefined data centers improve security
by giving organizations more control
over their hosted data and security
levels, compared to security provided
by hosted-cloud providers.
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Software-defined data center - Potential impact
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The software-defined data center is likely
to further drive down prices for data center
hardware and challenge traditional
hardware vendors to develop new ways to
differentiate their products through
software and services.
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Software-defined data center - Challenges
The concepts of software-defined in
general, and software-defined data
centers in particular, have been
dismissed by some as “nonsense,”
“marketecture,” and “softwaredefined hype.” Some critics believe
that only a minority of companies with
“completely homogenous IT
systems’” already in place, such as
Yahoo! and Google, can transition to
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Software-defined data center - Challenges
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According to some observers, softwaredefined data centers won’t necessarily
eliminate challenges that relate to handling
the differences between development and
production environments; managing a mix
of legacy and new applications; or
delivering service-level agreements
(SLAs).
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Software-defined data center - Challenges
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Software-defined networking is seen as
essential to the software-defined data
center, but it is also considered to be the
“least mature technology” required to
enable the software-defined data center.
However, a number of companies,
including
VMware,[http://www.cypherpath.com
Cypherpath Inc.], Arista Networks,
Cisco, and Microsoft, are working to
enable virtual networks that are easily
provisioned, extended, and moved
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Software-defined data center - Challenges
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[https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ne
utron Neutron], the networking
component of the open-source
OpenStack project, is considered an
important piece of the standards
puzzle and is expected to play a key
role in the evolution of the softwaredefined data center
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Software-defined data center - Challenges
The software-defined data center
approach will force IT organizations
to adapt. Architecting softwaredefined environments requires
rethinking many IT processes—
including automation, metering, and
billing—and executing service
delivery, service activation, and
service assurance.
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Software-defined data center - Current status
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Other vendors are developing components and
standards that enable the software-defined data
center
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Software-defined data center - Current status
Large-scale service providers such as
Amazon and Savvis, which could
potentially benefit from improved
efficiencies through automation, are
considered to be the organizations that are
most likely to deploy full-scale softwaredefined data center implementations.
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Software-defined storage
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VMware, which bought Nicira, used
the term software-defined data center
(SDDC) for a broader concept wherein
all the virtualized storage, server,
networking and security resources
required by an application can be
defined by software and provisioned
automatically.
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