| | DECEMBER - 2018ENTERPRISE SECURITY8By Jim Livingston, CTO, University of Utah HealthIMPLEMENTING SOFTWARE-DEFINED EVERYTHING IN THE DATA CENTERealthcare organizations demand the highest level of data center security, performance and automation. In 2016, I realized that we had an aging infrastructure to support four hospitals and 10 community clinics. It was time to make a change, but I wanted to make a data center transformation leap, which would set us up for the long term.Organizations really need a core infrastructure that can manage everything, from on-premise systems to cloud services to disaster recovery sites. I've seen too many people try to jump straight from a traditional environment to the cloud and fail. I wanted agility to support hybrid cloud operations and automation to unburden our IT staff from mundane, repetitive tasks. To address these needs, I initiated a full data center transformation to deliver a software-defined operating model. It used to be that you had applications, and you had the network. With software-defined data center technologies now available, IT can now combine traditional high-performance switching technologies with advanced management and automation capabilities. We can now place workloads wherever it makes sense--not just once, but any time. Essentially, we define the connectivity and behavior of an CXO INSIGHTSHJim Livingston
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