INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Data Centres
Capitalising on the software-
defined data centre
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T
he Software-Defined Data Centre
(SDDC) combines exceptional
performance with unprecedented
flexibility, enabling IT assets and IT
organisations to operate and change
at the speed of business. Accelerating
business demands are driving rapid Digital
Transformation in organisations across the
globe, there is a massive push for business
and IT to align around applications that
deliver modern customer engagement.
To keep up, IT needs to deliver digital
infrastructure that supports the modern
application anywhere. “Traditional three-tier architecture is
expensive to build, complex to operate,
and difficult to scale,” added Kruger.
“Don’t wait for IT infrastructure to support
your application demands. Adopt HCI
without losing control, increasing costs, or
compromising security.” and multiple uses. That leads to distinctive
benefits including lower cost, higher
availability, increased utilisation, unlimited
scalability, more speed for developing apps
and provisioning technology services, and
the agility to reconfigure and repurpose
infrastructure as the business needs.
The VMware software-defined digital
foundation enables business leaders to
innovate freely in the clouds, it brings
together best-in-class virtualised compute,
storage, and networking with comprehensive
cloud management. Troye CEO Helen Kruger says VMware
empowers customers to manage and run
consistent infrastructure and operations
across data centres and public clouds,
delivering applications with the speed
and agility to support business innovation
and growth. “VMware’s solution is built
on a software-defined hyperconverged
infrastructure (HCI) architecture of natively
integrated compute, network and storage
virtualisation technologies, with self-driving
operations and management,” said Kruger.
“This innovative approach delivers a
consistent operational model on any cloud.” Kruger says VMware’s common operating
environment lets businesses rapidly run,
manage, connect and secure apps across
data centres, clouds, and devices. “But the key feature of SDDC is
automation,” explained Kruger. “To increase
operational simplicity, the software layer
replaces management with automation.
Things happen quickly and changes are
made with very little human intervention.
Automation is the only solution for
infrastructure to keep pace with the ever-
changing high demands of business.”
VMware leads the HCI market with over
41% share and continues to grow two times
faster than its closest competitor. With the
most customers in production worldwide,
the richest ecosystem in the industry, and
the broadest set of deployment options
on the market, VMware provides the only
enterprise-proven, full HCI stack that puts
businesses on the path to hybrid cloud. With
HCI, business leaders can decrease data
centre complexity and increase scalability.
Combine storage, compute and networking
into a single system with HCI, this simplified
solution uses software and x86 servers to
replace expensive, purpose-built hardware.
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“The entire data centre is virtualised, not just
servers, but the other two traditional stacks
of storage and networking as well,” she said.
Virtualisation frees workloads from
connection with specific hardware and
frees the hardware to be put to different
Troye CEO Helen Kruger
SDDC also protects investment in legacy
hardware as it no longer needs to be
refreshed. It enables all apps, including
mission-critical apps, to take advantage
of the flexibility and efficiencies of SDDC.
SDDC also provides the freedom of choice
to incorporate the latest and most advanced
hardware technologies as required.
“It is the ideal solution for businesses
looking to propel themselves forward,
looking to accelerate app delivery and more
importantly, to serve as a strategic partner
to the business,” said Kruger. “When you
eliminate traditional IT silos and manage
everything from a single tool, the result is
lower OPEX and CAPEX associated with
running your IT infrastructure. And with
hyperconverged infrastructure, you don’t
have to sacrifice security, flexibility, or
scalability. The ITaaS model is the future of
IT and the SDDC architecture is a proven
path to get there. Implementing SDDC is
ultimately an investment in business agility
and business innovation. We now offer
solutions to adopt the SDDC architecture
much more rapidly than ever before.” n
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