Software-defined Datacenters: VMware's Toni Adams on the Record

VMware Toni Adams

Adams says VMware customers are already building out software-defined datacenters, which virtualize the compute, storage and networking components for customers. The idea is to make the entire converged data center elastic and scalable, using solutions like vCloud Suite. Adams offers more guidance in this FastChat Video:

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For channel partners, software-defined datacenters have become a hot topic of conversation. Now that corporate server workloads are increasingly virtualized, partners see an opportunity to repeat that process in the storage and networking markets. Customers, in turn, are seeking integrated platforms for managing all data center processes.

Adams' advice: use vCloud Suite as the building block for next generation data centers. Those datacenters, in turn, can be used by service providers as public clouds, or by customers as private clouds.