Business models are changing fast in today’s emerging digital economy, and these changes are creating new demands for IT organizations. In a fast-paced, competitive
marketplace, business stakeholders are looking to IT to help them innovate, get to market faster, and deliver engaging, delightful experiences to end customers. To deliver these capabilities, IT teams need the ability to quickly deploy and scale infrastructure and applications.

In this paper, we’ll explore the advantages that a modernized data center can bring for IT organizations seeking to keep pace in a dynamic environment. We’ll talk about the technical and organizational challenges that are holding IT teams back, and discuss
how a software-defined approach can help them move forward. And we’ll present examples showing how VMware solutions can enable IT teams to build a foundation for a modern data center to support their new business imperatives today and in the years ahead.