A growing number of organizations are evaluating and implementing software-defined data center management (SDDC) capabilities to increase agility and utilization. The technology is advancing quickly and software-defined management represents the future for most organizations. Gartner predicts that by 2020 “the programmatic capabilities of an SDDC will be considered a requirement for 75% of Global 2000 enterprises that seek to implement a DevOps approach and a hybrid cloud model.”
Like every major change in the data center, the transition to SDDC is more evolution than revolution. As such, the decisions made today will either facilitate or serve as obstacles to that evolution, regardless of whether the organization is already on the path to SDDC or just beginning to evaluate its potential.