There are a few “software defined” terms that are often used:

* “software defined networking,”

* “software defined storage”

* “software defined security”

* “software defined data center”

“Software defined” often means “virtualization.” It’s the Web 2.0 thinking that shaped cloud computing and enterprise thinking.

The Software Defined Data Center

With data centers, every low-level infrastructure component in a data center can be provisioned, operated, and managed through an API.

* IT organizations will start automating the most mundane tasks.

* The new base level of knowledge in IT will include programming knowledge.

* The network administrators and system administrators acts as programmers.

* The components (compute, storage, networking, security, etc.) are monitored and adapted to changes in real-time to increase utilization, performance, security and quality of service.

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