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DESIGNING THE NEXT GENERATION DATA CENTER
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This paper introduces five architectural principles guiding the development of the next generation data center( NGDC). It describes key market influences leading a fundamental enterprise IT transformation and the technological trends that support it. The five principles are: scale-out, guaranteed performance, automated management, data assurance, and global efficiencies. Cloud infrastructure delivery models such as IaaS, private clouds, and softwaredefined data centers( SDDC) are foundations for the NGDC. In an era where IT is expected to ensure production-grade support with a plethoric flow of new applications and data, these models demonstrate how to eliminate bottlenecks, increase self-service, and move the business forward. The NGDC applies a softwaredefined everything( SDx) discipline in a traditional, hardware-centric business to gain business advantage.
These principles support a fundamental, integrated approach affecting the software, processes, and people that support each layer of the data center stack. They represent a paradigm shift from enabling technology at the speed of business to enabling business at the speed of technology. Driven by the unchained cloud economy offering innovations in infrastructure design and cloud services, the enterprise is well-positioned to embrace this shift. Cloud economics can be described as the discipline of maximizing network, compute, and storage resources in conjunction with cloud computing to satisfy customer needs. NGDC cloud economics offers a new discipline: one that uses IT resources as the glue for cost containment, the force for innovation, and the architect of new revenue streams.
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