To meet new challenges that the big data and the mobile cloud era present, IT organizations need to virtualize the whole data center from Computing, Networking to Storage, etc. so all infrastructure services become as inexpensive and easy to provision and manage as virtual machines. This is the software-defined data center (SDDC): the ideal architecture for private, public, and hybrid clouds. Pioneered by VMware and recognized by the industry and analysts alike, SDDC extends the virtualization concepts — abstraction, pooling and automation — to all data center resources and services.  Software-defined storage, a foundational component of SDDC, abstracts storage resources to enable pooling, replication and on-demand distribution. The result is a storage layer much like that of virtualized compute—aggregated, flexible, efficient and scalable. The benefits are across-the-board reductions in the cost and complexity of storage infrastructure. In the speech, Dr. Fan will introduce the technology and industry practice that VMware pioneers in the evaluation journey to SDDC.

 

VMware is the global leader of Virtualization Technology and next generation Cloud Infrastructure. It was ranked as the #1 of the most Disruptive Enterprise Tech Company, and the #3 of the world’s most innovative companies by Forbes.