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Software-Defined Everything (SDx): Using Software as the Platform for Building Businesses
Marc Andreessen said that “software is eating the world”. Software is becoming the controlling factor for how almost everything works.
In 2015 we saw the continued rise of software with the emergence of technologies like the Software-Defined Network (SDN), Software-Defined Storage (SDS), and the Software-defined Data Center (SDDC). Market research group Technavio expects that the Software-Defined Everything (SDx) market will grow annually at a rate of 32 percent over the next five years.
Software-Defined technologies are attractive because they typically are cost savers. They enable businesses to run leaner and more innovatively. Software can reduce the amount and level of sophistication of hardware needed, and it can also reduce the labor costs needed to oversee operations. SDDCs, for example, are being designed to use less hardware — things like servers, racks, disk and tape, routers and switches — automating many tasks that were labor intensive, and reducing costs like power consumption and cooling.
Jim O’Reilly, IT consultant, said that “there’s a point at which legacy [infrastructure] can’t hold up against economics, and we’re very close to it and even past it in some ways. [2016] could be the tipping point — SDS and SDN will push this question very hard.”
Gartner explains the importance of SDx technology by saying that “to deal with the rapidly changing demands of digital business and scale systems up — or down — rapidly, computing has to move away from static to dynamic models.” The dynamic characteristics of software provide greater flexibility with system modeling and reconfiguration.
Software is becoming the center for communication and interactions and will provide the foundation on which companies build and run their businesses.
