A virtual data centre (VDC) is an abstraction of physical IT components that are designed to meet the needs of business of businesses. Utilizing virtualization technology, it is a VDC offers the same compute storage, networking and data access capabilities a knockout post as traditional IT infrastructure, but also reduces costs as well as complexity and maintenance, while increasing flexibility.
Virtualization facilitates faster hardware provisioning, and on-demand scaling in order to handle the growth of businesses. It also facilitates agile software development practices and DevOps, making it a natural fit for modern IT architecture. It also reduces IT support and labor costs, allowing businesses to spend more on innovation.
VDCs are either built on premises in a central location (private cloud) or hosted by third-party providers that offer cloud-based services to many businesses at once (public cloud). In either case, the virtualization of the platform can help lower maintenance and operational costs.
The hardware needed to build and deploy a VDC can be purchased from a vendor or leased through an IT managed service provider. It’s commonly referred to as hyperconverged infrastructure or HCI, because it combines storage, compute and networking equipment into one system that is run by software and can scale up or down.
A VDC can run on a variety of operating systems that include Linux, Windows, and VMware. It can be implemented in a hub-and-spoke design, with the core infrastructure located in the hub and applications and workloads placed in spokes. This architecture is a good match for the roles as well as the responsibilities of a business. It also reduces expenses through centralization of data flows and components, and a streamlined process for, management and compliance.