Datacenter Modernization

Modernizing your datacenter with smarter infrastructure solutions from Pivot3

With data playing an increasingly central role in informing business decisions, datacenters are becoming innovation-driven profit centers. Datacenter  modernization has become a key IT initiative for many enterprises. Modernizing your datacenter used to simply mean lowering costs and footprint by virtualizing your servers. With virtualization firmly embedded in every datacenter DNA now, and as organizations grow increasingly dependent on their digital assets and IT processes to run day-to-day aspects of their businesses, IT has become strategic in driving business success. Today, modernizing your datacenter means being more agile and more productive to efficiently support new business initiatives such as cloud computing, end user mobility, big data analytics, business continuity, and DevOps. Enterprises are adopting software-defined approaches to
simplify their infrastructure and IT processes to support these new realities.

In order to move towards a software-defined datacenter (SDDC), IT organizations must standardize, consolidate and automate their datacenter processes and underlying infrastructure. This includes transitioning to industry-standard hardware with open-standard protocols and integrated management and orchestration; consolidating workloads and applications on common shared infrastructure; and integrating and automating various provisioning, performance management and orchestration workflows though customizable software-defined controls. Traditional infrastructure lacks the software-defined policy-based management tools that facilitate automation, is unable to meet the performance needs of large diverse consolidated environments, and is often based on non-standard non-extensible technologies that further add to complexity. As such, the traditional approach is fundamentally inadequate for today’s highly virtualized and dense datacenter architectures, and impedes the transition to a modern SDDC.