Harborview's city CIO tells council that the next civic data center should treat compute, storage, and networking as software rather than as three separately ordered hardware silos. What software-defined data center (SDDC) concept is the CIO describing?
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Short Explanation
Think of the civic data center as three software factories, not three hardware catalogs. An SDDC virtualizes compute, storage, and networking and delivers them as software, instead of ordering a server silo, a storage silo, and a switch silo.
Full Explanation
A software-defined data center virtualizes compute, storage, and networking and presents those services programmatically, rather than as three independently procured hardware stacks. Harborview's CIO is naming that three-pillar model. Renting a SaaS mailbox outsources one application; it does not virtualize the civic fabric. Horizon and Carbon Black are EUC and endpoint-security products, not the SDDC definition.