Mansour “Manny” Yusuf, chief cloud/edge architect at Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), said government agencies seeking to support enterprise applications and activities in a more flexible manner while reducing security risks and costs and improving performance should consider adopting a software-defined data center.
Yusuf wrote in an article published on Carahsoft.com that an SDDC works to virtualize and deliver compute, storage, networking, security and other infrastructure elements in an as-a-service model while enabling agencies to remove information technology silos.
“SDDCs provide a cloud-like capability within agencies’ own walls so they can begin deploying applications in a controlled space. It gives them the ability to learn and gain a better understanding of cloud operations and optimization within any given environment,” he noted.
The Dell Technologies executive discussed the key components of an SDDC, including compute or server virtualization, software-defined storage and software-defined networking, which he said “plays a vital role in providing extensibility across cloud communications in an SDDC.”
According to Yusuf, agencies looking to implement SDDCs should have a clear understanding of their environments, commitment to zero trust and security and the ability to offer a variety of enterprise-grade services.
He also cited how the company could help agencies integrate SDDCs into their strategies for multicloud environments while enabling them to facilitate communications across IT ecosystems and support their missions.
