A virtual data use this link centre (VDC) is an abstraction of physical IT components that are designed to meet the business needs of businesses. Virtualization technology allows the VDC to provide the same computing data storage, networking and data access capabilities as traditional IT infrastructure, while decreasing costs, complexity and maintenance.
Virtualization allows faster provisioning of hardware and on-demand scaling to accommodate business growth. It also facilitates agile software development practices and DevOps. This makes it a natural fit with modern IT architecture. It also lowers IT support and costs, allowing companies 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 solutions to many companies simultaneously (public cloud). In either case, the virtualization of the platform can lower maintenance and operational costs.
The hardware that is used to build and install a VDC can be purchased from an individual vendor or leased through an IT managed service provider. It’s sometimes referred as hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) because it combines storage, computing, and network equipment into an entire system that runs an operating system that can scale up and down.
A VDC is capable of working with a broad range of operating systems such as Linux, Windows and VMware. It can be utilized in a hub-and-spoke network design with the core infrastructure installed in the hub, and workloads and applications deployed in spokes. This design follows the structure of corporate roles and responsibilities, as well as providing lower costs by utilizing components and data flow centralization as well as easier operations, management, and compliance.