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.
Don't Rip and Replace
Migration to the data center architecture of 2017 does not require an expensive and risky strategy of ripping out racks of existing infrastructure and replacing it with new, hyperconverged appliances. Some SDDC platforms can abstract legacy hardware from multiple vendors into a resource pool with common software-defined, tier-one storage services to improve utility. It can be done swiftly for immediate benefits or incrementally, gradually moving storage services off of legacy platforms into the software-defined management layer.