Last week, VMware hosted one of its most exciting VMworld conferences to date. The keynotes emphasized a bold vision for the future of IT: the software-defined datacenter (SDDC) . The SDDC is the datacenter where the infrastructure, including compute, storage, and networking, has been virtualized and fully automated by software, thus enabling IT to be delivered as a service. As Steve Herrod summarized in his Day 1 keynote – the SDDC is based on the ability to abstract applications from the underlying infrastructure, pool physical resources into shared logical resources, and automate IT operations.





