The Software-Defined Datacenter is a unified datacenter platform that will help you transform the way you deliver IT with unprecedented automation, flexibility, and efficiency. VMware’s unique software-defined approach moves beyond traditional IT complexity and rigidity by liberating datacenter services from the constraints of specialized hardware. Compute, storage, networking, security, and availability services are pooled, aggregated, and delivered as software, and managed by intelligent, policy-driven software. The result is a datacenter optimized for the cloud era, providing unmatched business agility, the highest SLAs for all applications, dramatically simpler operations, and lower costs.