Organizational Issues & Opportunities with SDDC  20 Mar  I’m
going to start this blog with a caveat:  I’ll start by saying
that as a long time data center guy, I still struggle with
calling the infrastructure “in a data center” a “data center”,
software defined or otherwise. So, getting passed arguing about
the term SDDC, the focus of my blog is on trying to provide an
outline of what I see as the some of the needs and opportunities
associated with SDDC.  SDDC – What’s new?  Historically the
infrastructure has always been defined by the technology, not by
a larger service. In other words we had “server guys” and “SAN
gals”, but not an “Infrastructure Coordinator”.  This
differentiation by technology instead of a service has led to a
stepped approach to design, change management and release to
production. The assumption I’m making with SDDC is that many of
the manual “operations” oriented activities could now
theoretically be done by one person or group.  Common issues
associated with traditional infrastructur