Modern data centers are very different than they were just a short time ago. Infrastructure has shifted from traditional on-premises physical servers to virtualized infrastructure that supports applications and workloads across pools of physical infrastructure and into a multicloud environment.

In this era, the modern data center is wherever its data and applications are. It stretches across multiple public and private clouds to the edge of the network via mobile devices and embedded computing. In this constantly shifting environment, the data center must reflect the intentions of users and applications.