WTH: How do you see the path towards the software-defined Data centre?
AB: What I believe is driving this trend is that developers and organisations are looking to move extremely fast. Developers are getting used to the paradigm of going on AWS (Amazon Web Services) and getting resources immediately instead of weeks/months of provisioning time. That is the benchmark against which they are now holding their internal IT organisations.
They are benchmarking their IT organisation against AWS in terms of ease-of-use, agility and price. I think that is the fundamental macro trend that is driving the desire for the software defined data centre.
That feels right, and is probably missing some tricks (doing better analytics, new end-user devices, etc.), but hey, like I used to say cloud == speed.
Cloud == speed, pt. 2, or, Developers moving at public cloud speed driving IT transformation