1. How Software-Defined Will Your Data Centre of the Future Be?

2. About Me Principal Analyst, Neuralytix Previously,
Neuralytix: A leading global industry analyst & advisory firm
Previously,
Worldwide Program VP at IDC
Storage
Big Data

3. Evolution of the software-defined datacentre
3rd Gen
HyperConverged
2nd Gen
Converged
1st Gen
Traditional Infrastructure

4. (Provides pooling, abstraction, management, automation)
The birth of the SDDC
SDDC Software
(Provides pooling, abstraction, management, automation)

5. This is happening quickly!

6. Composable Infrastructure
Almost completely software defined
4th Gen
Composable Infrastructure
3rd Gen
HyperConverged

7. Pool, Orchestrate, Provision, Deploy, Manage, Automate
Software to control on-premise ↔ cloud
SDDC Software
Pool, Orchestrate, Provision, Deploy, Manage, Automate

8. Summary
Should expect entire datacentre to be completely software- driven/software-defined
Challenges will come because there are so many layers of abstraction
Cloud and non-cloud will only differ based on type of data and required processing
Otherwise, data and apps will be mobile