Companies are often held back by an inflexible and complex IT infrastructure that cannot keep up with the changing needs of business. These restraints result in slow deployment of critical applications and services, limited resources, poor operation management, and unpredictable system integration.
Virtualised servers and desktops hold the key to more efficient IT management. Collaboration through cloud also enables greater access to enterprise systems and data through a wider range of devices. This includes mobile devices which are increasingly used to access corporate systems and data. Corporate data resides in the cloud allowing employees to access the information when needed.
The increasing sophistication of mobile technology and its growing adoption in the enterprise segment will contribute to drive demand for cloud solutions. One of the main outcomes of this demand will be a commensurate edification of IaaS services, provided through virtualisation or SDDC models.
London based research firm Visiongain, based on its Software-Defined Data Centre (SDDC) Market Report 2015-2020: Cloud Computing & Virtualisation Shaping Cyber Networks With Software Defined Networks (SDN), Storage (SDS) & Compute report, expects the SDDC market to reach US$19.31 billion in 2015.
The report notes that a major driving force for the growth of this market will be ability for the control plane to dynamically change the infrastructure based on information it receives from the data plane.
The current state of the "Hardware-Defined Data Centre" is that configurations are static and difficult to manage. The SDDC paradigm posits that infrastructure could be changed on-the-fly to meet changing requirements.
In a SDDC, the infrastructure could be programmed to automatically move workloads from a private to a public cloud and back. Moreover, the infrastructure underneath the private cloud could be programmed to dynamically "spin-up" new VMs with requisite compute, network, or storage being provisioned alongside.
These processes will ultimately drive enterprise IT towards greater automation and allow corporations to focus on applications, the central pillar of their businesses.
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