Impact of SDDC on the IT Team

SDDC shall lead to an increased need for specialized admins, hardware and software pros by enterprises or IT departments which offer SDDC services to other enterprises

With the evolution and adoption of Smart Phones, Computers and Internet, world has come much closer than what it was a decade back. Enterprise businesses are becoming global, diverse Infrastructures are coming together by the means of global acquisitions and data is growing very fast. To meet the growing needs of global business, enterprises are adding lot more servers, storage, networking systems, security systems and solutions in their data centers. Worldwide IT spending on various devices and data center systems is already crossing US$ 800 Billion annually.

All this is leading to datacenters growing into complex ecosystems. Datacenters are under tremendous pressure. Looking at some of the statistics which indicates that there are 27% unplanned OPEX needs, 31% delays in application rollouts and more than 75% issues with power, cooling and space availability. Managing growing business needs and 24x7 availability expectations throughout the entire datacenter life cycle (from its design, build, day-to-day operation, through the sustenance), proves difficult without proper factual insight.

The need for SDDC

To overcome with these and many other challenges, introduction of the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) gives these challenges a new face. SDDC are the data center where all infrastructure is virtualized and delivered as a service. With the help of automated software one can control the data centers. In contrast to traditional data centers where the infrastructure is typically defined by hardware and devices now maintained through intelligent software systems.

Cloud computing and Virtualization are core and integral part of SDDC which strikes the fine balance and supports legacy enterprise applications and evolution of cloud computing services.

The adoption of SDDC will have a positive impact on IT team. Technologically, the delivery and offering of services/ products will be impacted. There is an increased need for specialized admins, hardware and software by the enterprises or IT departments which offer these SDDC services to the businesses and enterprises. IT will define what modern hardware, Storage, Compute power, Security and the applications they require. They can group all of the required resources and components to create and offer the logical solution and application.

The enterprises, whose core business is not the IT can really reduce their IT staff and bring it to very minimum. Neither they need to directly rely and manage the specialized hardware and its continuous maintenance nor hire the consultants. While they can get many benefits like Policy based management, control over applications and governance, they can get the improved efficiencies from cloud, virtualization and many more evolving technology platforms, reduce their overall costs, power saving, cooling and noncore IT business management headaches. The other benefit which I could clearly see from IT professional’s perspective is that, they will have more clearly defined career path, focused training, the faster exposure to newly evolving technology and their adoption.