VMware’s Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) vision leverages core data center virtualization technologies to
transform data center economics and business agility through automation and non-disruptive deployment that
embraces and extends existing compute, network and storage infrastructure investments. Enterprise data centers
are already realizing the tremendous benefits of server and storage virtualization solutions to consolidate and
repurpose infrastructure resources, reduce operational complexity and dynamically align and scale their application
infrastructure in response to business priorities. However, the data center network has not kept pace and remains
rigid, complex, proprietary and closed to innovation – a barrier to realizing the full potential of the virtualization and
the SDDCs.