SDCC is a data center in which infrastructure is virtualized and delivered “as-a-service”. SIL offers a combination of software-defined networking – management of traffic, software defined compute – management of workloads and software-defined storage – management of data. SIL can help organisations to be more flexible and operate in a cost effective manner as well as providing support to their traditional enterprise applications.
SDCC is used by Enterprise IT organizations, Infrastructure & Operations leaders as it provides a lot of flexibility and agility to support the organisation’s business processes. SDDC enables the users to deploy their apps quickly (improve the availability of apps) and improves the efficiency & utilization of IT resources by increasing the adoption of cloud services.
Today, this is how many public cloud and telcos have been designed. This is the software defined approach that is the most flexible and scalable. However, it still requires deep learning curve and maintenance. SAN appliances and switches are eliminated by using Software Defined Storage.
HyperConverged Infrastructure is the next evolution where both compute server and SAN are combined into software defined nodes. Advantages of HCI are
- Lower Costs – Reduction in overall capex and opex. Eliminate application cluster licenses and SAN Switches.
- Lower Running Costs – reduction in staff intervention
- High Availability – even for applications that are not High Availability -aware
- Scalability – Scale infrastructure predictably
- Fastest time-to-value – Deployment possible within days
- Smallest footprint – Reduction in power, cooling and space.