It’s a hybrid cloud, an on-premises or simply a traditional data center, the use of virtualization technologies in its three main components (computing, storage and network) is critical. The “software-defined data center” is this: a computer center built with different technologies but standard, highly configurable and automatable. Broadly defined and interpreted differently (so much so that many companies use to describe the systems very far from each other). However, the computer center defined by the software becomes more popular, at least on paper. What is the reality of the market?
If it is called F5 Networks , which has recently completed a survey of over 500 IT managers of many European companies. It found that 46% of European companies have embarked on the journey to the software defined data center ( SDDC ) and that safety is their main priority.
“A significant number so – says Paul Pindell, Senior Solution Architect at F5 – for IT managers who claims to have created a SDDC full, as indicated by research, suggests that there are probably differences of interpretation by the respondents with respect to what is a totally Software-Defined. In my opinion, many want “totally SDDC” as “highly virtualized”. It seems clear that IT organizations have actually included with commitment to their strategic plan the journey to the Data Center Software-Defined, and probably in their path went much farther than you might think. “
In short, one-fifth of the companies in Europe believes it has already implemented a data center totally Software-Defined, as evidenced by research. At this percentage of respondents, IT managers across Europe, must be added a further 46%, claiming that their company today has achieved a partial SDDC thus leading to an overall percentage of 66% companies which are already equipped with a data center environment totally or partially Software-Defined. The survey of F5 has determined, moreover, that 33% of companies offer their application services customers through a SDDC and that a further 22% planning to promote a POC (Proof of concept) specific to be in production within the next twelve months.
“There remain, however, significant obstacles – says Pindell – for companies seeking to fully virtualize their data center environments – especially with respect to security, the cost and business confidence. These issues represent a key challenge for the IT industry and for the companies themselves to develop solutions SDDC that meet the requirements of the company and enable it to deploy applications quickly and safely to all users. ”
Although many companies are in an advanced stage with respect to the strategy Software-Defined, the survey showed that a significant 30% say they are not yet ready to implement a data center partially or totally Software-Defined. In addition, 18% of respondents say that their company is still far from complete an overall assessment in terms of POC or does not plan to develop any strategy to architecture Software-Defined.
Security remains high on the list of priorities expressed by IT professionals as they face the evolution of its IT infrastructure. 56% of respondents placed safety as top priority for their business over the next 12 months, followed by cost reduction (34%), greater agility (30%) and mobility (25%). When asked what the biggest challenges in the delivery of the SDDC in the next 12 months, the main response was, once again, the security, referred to as the main obstacle by 34% of respondents. Follow the trust of end-users (30%), focusing on different technologies (28%) and cost (25%).
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