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As-a-Service Models
IT-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Softwareas-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), is here to
stay.
According to a special report from Gartner, Many
organizations have now passed the definitional stage of as-aservice models and are testing it inside and outside the
enterprise and over time, the disruptive strategy will simply
become one of the ways that we 'do' computing, and
workloads will move around in hybrid internal/external IT
environments.
As-a-Service models and hosted services allow IT teams to
offload routine operations such as hardware maintenance and
management and network monitoring to third parties.
Organizations are seeing clear and definite benefits from
adoption of these models.
Addressing skill shortage within IT departments, substantial
cost savings, scalability, ability to respond to business
changes faster, reliability and robustness are some of the
inherent benefits of these models that is changing the way
Software-Defined Everything
IT evangelists are harping on software-defined everything in all
its myriad contexts software-defined data centers (SDDC),
software-defined networks (SDN), software-defined storage
(SDS), and the super set, software-defined infrastructure
(SDI).
By definition, software-defined is about the larger role played
by software systems in controlling multi-piece hardware
systems and devices. Techopedia defines Software-Defined
Everything (SDE) as a set of various systems controlled by
advanced software programs and constructed in a virtual,
versus physical, hardware space.
In Conclusion
Data centers will continue to transform from a traditional,
virtualized and consolidated central IT infrastructure set to a
service-oriented, software-defined, economically efficient,
cloud-styled architecture.
The resulting data centers will enable IT departments to
deliver IT as a service to their internal customers, host mission
critical applications and data that is agnostic to mode of
deployment, augment gap capacities by taking help from
external cloud, and move workloads seamlessly across
various environments without business disruptions. All this will
be done economically efficiently.
The biggest fear of all business may bypass IT altogether.
Yes, if IT teams do not take into cognizance the changing
dynamics of the evolution of IT within the data center space,
there is a good chance that they will lose control of IT within
their organizations all together.
What do you think? What are the changes in this evolution
affecting your organization? Do write in.
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