Businesses that do not adopt software-defined data centres will end up stuck with 'siloed', rigid data centres that will not propel the business into the future.
So said Ian Jansen van Rensberg, senior manager for systems engineering at VMware Africa, in an interview with ITWeb during the VMworld 2014 conference in Barcelona.
According to Jansen van Rensberg, there is a misconception in the industry that adopting a software-defined data centre means doing away with all the hardware in the data centre.
He noted organisations want their infrastructure to be seamlessly connected and secure. As a result, he explained, organisations see the value in a software-defined data centre but because they have invested their money in hardware storage, they are hesitant to change.
Jansen van Rensberg pointed out that what businesses need to realise is that the adoption of software-defined data centre does not mean a "rip and replace" - removing all hardware and implementing a software data centre.
"Most infrastructures already have most of the components to implement software-defined data centres; all they need is to take it a step further and add some components when they do a hardware refresh. In so doing, they will realise the true reality of software-defined data centres."
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