Software Defined Anything not on the map for IT professionals – managers Online

With software defined the end user to be fully centrally

March 19, 2015 – 35 percent of IT professionals says as yet nothing to do with Software Defined Anything (SDx). More than a quarter (28 percent) even has no idea what SDx. This is the finding of Telindus and Cisco among 376 IT professionals.

Of the respondents, 29 percent of them have to delve into SDx and orient themselves in the possibilities. Almost a tenth (eight percent) SDx has effectively taken on the schedule.

Server Virtualization
 Among the IT professionals who already orient SDx server virtualization is still an important topic; four in ten IT professionals (41 percent) watching here. Software Defined Storage (SDS) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) at number two and three with 30 and 29 percent.
 
Creative contribution
 Harm de Haan Manager Consultancy & amp; member Advisory Board at Telindus, “The software defined technology IT managers provides the ability to move from a reactive to a creative contribution to the business objectives with SDx shifts the focus of the technique to the functionality, within all levels of. IT infrastructure. A policy model for the IT infrastructure, the IT department immediately able to respond to demand to carry on in the business and proactive ideas. As a result, the added value of IT is still visible. It is a nice signal nearly a third of respondents orients itself on the possibilities. “

End Central
 “With software defined the end user to fully forefront and allows IT departments to focus on functionality, or the application landscape,” says Jan Heijdra, Strategic Product Sales Specialist – ACI Europe at Cisco. “Our Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) plays completely in. A network is a means, not an end. The goal is to allow applications Performen optimal. For this example they have connectivity, security and application delivery needs. Traditional networking stack all those services, so they have become very complex. ACI think from the perspective of an application, from policies. In these policies do you capture exactly what an application needs to perform optimally, so the infrastructure is dynamic and scalable. “

Telindus and Cisco have processed their vision SDx in the free download whitepaper Software Defined Anything: applications centrally in the IT infrastructure. “