Building a so-called software-defined data centre with almost everything at the core virtualized isn’t a dream in the clouds, a VMware Canada official has told a customer meeting. Nor, he added, is it unaffordable.
“This is a major technology change,” Shawn Rosemarin, executive director for VMware’s architecture and professional services in Canada told a session in Toronto on Thursday.
Unfortunately, most of the market views this as “the miracle change” — something just happens between the time a company virtualizes much of its applications and the time when the data centre is dominated by on-premise or hosted cloud-based services.
But, he added, “there are no miracles — this is a plan and a process you can drive over the next few years and actually achieve goals throughout the process, build your careers, build your experience and be accountable for the results you and your corporation are able to achieve.”
The savings IT manages can achieve through virtualizing compute, storage, networking and security will help pay each step of the way, he said. The end goal is to be able to offer IT as a service through infrastructure as a service (being able to offer virtual compute for, say, test and development) and platform as a service (a stack including applications, storage and networking).
IT has to move this way, he warned, because if they don’t lines of business have choices — an inference that they can go to outside IaaS and PaaS service provides themselves.
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