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SDx is a collective
term that encapsulates
the growing market
momentum for improved
standards for infrastructure
programmability and data
center interoperability driven
by automation inherent to
cloud computing Gartner
Research
This transformation started a decade ago with x86 hypervisors delivering greater IT
efficiency through server virtualization. But as cloud computing drove further evolution
of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) with greater agility and elasticity, those concepts
have spilled over network virtualization and SDN, as well as into Software-Defined
Storage, Software-Defined WAN, etc. Many analysts and pundits have variously
termed Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), or SDI/SDx (SD Infrastructure/
Anything).
Network security is also being impacted. Firewalls, intrusion prevention, and other
security appliances have traditionally been deployed as hardware devices at discrete
points in the physical network, such as the ingress/egress point at the network edge.
But as security needs to increasingly be deployed throughout the network to counter
against advanced threats inside the perimeter, there are challenges maintaining
visibility and control with dynamic and logical network flows in increasingly softwaredefined environments. With the profound and fundamental changes to data center
infrastructure, constricting traffic through a few fixed static inspection points would
negate many of the benefits of Infrastructure-as-a-Service agility.
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SaaS Multi-Tenancy
As cloud services and managed services are increasingly being
delivered from efficient and elastic multi-tenant infrastructure,
rather than from dedicated or customer premise equipment
(CPE), management tools and platforms need to become multitenant aware. Security policy and event management delegable
to each tenant to reduce cloud admin costs, ideally through
online web interfaces to fulfill a more SaaS-like experience.
Provider admins must also be able to have a global provider
view, in addition to being able to troubleshoot delegated
administrative views for a single tenant.
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June 3, 2015