Chapter 14

Application Management in a Software-Defined Data Center

Abstract

In the past decade, data centers evolved into mission-critical assets whose availability, performance, power, efficiency, security continuity, and overall effectiveness must be guaranteed to avoid critical downtime and revenue losses. The planning, design, implementation, operation and control, maintenance, evolution, and eventual disposal at the end of the data center's useful life consist of a set of complex processes. Managing these processes was difficult and data center managers had to use a plethora of information technology (IT) tools and techniques to achieve optimum integration, interoperability, security, reliability, serviceability, manageability, controllability, ...

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