Architectures for software-defined data centers can address the need for flexibility and agility, but implementing them is difficult and calls for coordinating a host of complex features including ...

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That, of course, is a tall order at the moment, but the hope is that with the triple combination of server virtualization and software-defined storage and networking, the advent of the fully dynamic ...

The software defined data center (SDDC) claims to change that. It is described by VMware as: “A unified data center platform that provides unprecedented automation, ... The potential of ...

This semantic fad has its critics, too, who are prone to dismiss SDDC as software-defined (hype) when the label is applied to data center architecture since, in their view, only companies with ...

A traditional three-tiered data center architecture with separate infrastructure for networking, processing and storage remains the norm. But for agencies seeking to modernize their legacy data ...

A traditional three-tiered data center architecture with separate infrastructure for networking, processing and storage remains the norm. But for businesses seeking to modernize their legacy data ...

NetApp recently bolstered its presence in the software-defined data center with the launch of Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2, the latest release of its flagship storage platform. Datalink’s Jason Anderson ...

Stateless is working on a new architecture to bring software-defined networking to colocation data centers that are constrained by physical cross-connects. Gartner predicts that by 2025, 80 ...

VMware can also help companies generate reports that will provide proof that their data center infrastructure is, in fact, protected, Tran said. Key Benefits of Software-Defined Architecture. Nord ...

A traditional three-tiered data center architecture with separate infrastructure for networking, processing and storage remains very much the norm. But for organizations looking to modernize their ...

EMC and its partners hope their Federation Software-Defined Data Center software stack will serve as a reference architecture for all future software-defined data centers.