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.
Evolve Organizational Design
Significant organizational adjustments will be made to reflect the new data center. It will require new skill sets and different vendor relationships, and this can seem threatening to the existing team. Decisions are becoming more solution-focused and by 2017 the traditional model of the storage team talking to storage vendors and the networking team talking to network vendors will be long forgotten. Internal IT organizations must realign to reflect the delivery of infrastructure as a service.
The old support model provided by high-margin, proprietary IT appliance vendors will be severed, creating an opportunity for system integrators to help accelerate the introduction of SDDC architecture.