Hardware and Software Solutions that Create a Loosely Coupled Partnership

Grazed from CIO. Author: Ed Goldman.

Demand for efficiency, flexibility, and scalability continues to increase, and the data center must keep pace with movement to our digital business strategies. Previously, Diane Bryant, Intel’s senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Data Center Group, recently stated, “We are in the midst of a bold industry transformation as IT evolves from supporting the business to being the business. This transformation and the move to cloud computing calls into question many of the fundamental principles of data center architecture.”

Those “fundamental principles of data center architecture” are on a collision course with the direction that virtualization has lead us. This virtualization in conjunction with automation and orchestration is leading us to the Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI). The demand of SDI is driving new hardware developments, which will open a whole new world of possibilities for running a state-of-the-art data center…

This eventually will leave our legacy infrastructure behind. While we’re not quite there yet, as different stages need to mature, the process has the power to transform the data center…

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