VMware adds networking, storage to its virtual data center stack

August 26, 2013

At the kick-off of its annual VMworld user conference, being held this week in San Francisco, VMware will fill in more layers of its software stack for running its envisioned software defined data center (SDDC). “IT should be able to provision a production environment in minutes,” said Peter Wei, a VMware senior director of product marketing. “People want things very quickly, so you have to abstract the [IT infrastructure]. Otherwise it is not possible.” Over the past few years, VMware has been expanding its core focus from virtualizing servers to a much broader task of virtualizing all the operations in a data center, using an architecture it calls SDDC. With SDDC, all of an organization’s infrastructure is virtualized, allowing data center administrators, in theory, to easily automate operations. This year’s VMworld conference will provide more details about the products and protocols that could make SDDC a reality. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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