What does Software Defined Data Center means

After the industry created a Software Defined Network (SDN) [1] term it is time for a new one. A new emerging IT buzz word is a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) [2]. It appears that only VMware is marketing this extensively at the moment.

From a technical point of view its all makes sense: compute resources are already largely virtualized, virtual storage and virtual networks are following. Looking at the last VMware acquisition of Nicira [3] the company has many if not all necessary products to build such a SDDC Data Center.

Let's see how the market will respond to it and if other vendors start looking and using this as well in the near future.

References

1. SDN
http://rtomaszewski.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/software-defined-network-sdn-as-example.html
http://rtomaszewski.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/google-does-use-sdn-in-its-data-centers.html
http://rtomaszewski.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/emerging-of-virtual-network-aka-quantum.html


2. SDDC
http://www.networkcomputing.com/data-center/the-software-defined-data-center-dissect/240006848
http://www.vmware.com/solutions/datacenter/software-defined-datacenter/index.html
http://blogs.vmware.com/console/2012/08/the-software-defined-datacenter-meets-vmworld.html



3. Openstack, Nicira and VMware
http://www.infoworld.com/t/data-center/what-the-software-defined-data-center-really-means-199930