Imagine an entire IT infrastructure controlled not by hands and hardware, but by software. One in which application workloads such as big data, analytics, simulation and design are serviced automatically by the most appropriate resource, whether running locally or in the cloud. A Software Defined Infrastructure enables your organization to deliver IT services in the most efficient way possible, optimizing resource utilization to accelerate time to results and reduce costs. It is the foundation for a fully integrated software defined environment, optimizing your compute, storage and networking infrastructure so you can quickly adapt to changing business requirements. A comprehensive portfolio of management tools dynamically manage workloads and data, transforming a static IT infrastructure into a workload- , resource- and data-aware environment.
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Summarize the trends into 4 big buckets relative to the pressures and evolution of the technical computing environment.
Demand
These are the trends driven by the needs of the users, their applications and their workloads – the demands placed on the technical computing environment
2. Supply
These are the trends driven by and impacting the evolution of the technologies that organizations deploy in their environment to build their technical computing infrastructure
3. Business Agility
These are the trends driven by the increasing need for business agility and responsiveness. (connects to the overall value prop of wider SDE discussion)
4. Efficiency
- Trends that relate to driving maximum utilization, usage, efficiency from the environment. These include cost constraints