Software Defined Everything (SDE/SDX)

Definitively and steadily Software gains in deep authority. More and more smart and sophisticated software are part of our digital lives.  Intelligent software control, manage and automate the entire data center infrastructure. Flexibility, scalability, productivity, seamless, security and performance are at the core of stakes. 

For those who are unfamiliar, with Software Defined Everything (SDE), one talks about the IT world moving towards a software defined future. 

In fact, it can be understood as a movement towards providing more authority to software systems to control different types of multi-piece hardware systems. 

 

Such a virtualized infrastructure can be delivered as a service and provide organizations with flexibility, scalability, added speed, and savings on capital and operational expenditure.

The umbrella term incorporates a number of software defined technologies such as Software Defined Networking (SDN), Software Defined Storage (SDS), and Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). 

According to Research and Markets, the term was coined by IBM to describe its vision of software defined future. What started as Application, Integration and Middleware group got evolved to Software Defined Environments Group inside the IBM Software group. 

Factors being considered to switch to SDE are improvements in network stability, time to market and reduction in provisioning time. Areas, where its need is being mentioned, are cloud, Internet of Things and big data.