Today, the role that the physical data center plays in software-defined data centers, particularly facility design and operational management, is often overlooked. However, this is likely to change.
As more networking and compute becomes virtualized and flexible, so too must data center resources, in order to achieve maximum agility and efficiency. To virtualize only IT and networking resources is to optimize only the top layers of the stack; the supply of underlying physical data center resources — power, cooling, space — must also be tightly coupled to IT demand and resources, and automated accordingly.
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