“Software-defined” is a powerful concept, and what it means is taking the underlying resources that are in any data center — the compute, the storage, and the network — and serving them up in a more consistent, software-controlled and software-automated way to the applications and the users.
Watch David Goulden and VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger explain the power of a software-defined data center in this brief video (2:28).
Plus, read more from Pat in this interview.