Enterprise data center architecture is in the midst of the most dramatic change in decades. Hyperscale data centers have pioneered the software-defined data center (SDDC) on industry-standard hardware.
Distributed Workloads
Organizations are often spread across many geographic locations, and customers are spread around the globe. While hardware-defined infrastructure is typically tied to one location, the software-defined data center of 2017 will abstract heterogeneous legacy proprietary hardware and newer industry-standard hardware into a single resource pool. Better yet, this resource pool will not be limited to one location — it can span multiple locations and/or public cloud resources as an active-active cluster managed as a single system.
By 2017, workloads will be dynamically managed across distributed resources based on factors including end-user proximity, capacity utilization, and energy cost or availability.