电力能被软件定义吗?
Can power be software-defined?
关键的基础设施通常是不灵活的。安迪·劳伦斯认为数据中心的能源真的可以作为一种灵活的服务来使用吗?
Critical infrastructure is normally inflexible. Andy Lawrence finds out if data center power really can be delivered as a flexible service
January 31, 2019 By Andy Lawrence, Uptime Institute Comment
2011年左右的时候,一个新的词进入了IT领域: ‘软件定义的.’ 这个术语有时被认为出自于一个VMware的工程师,通常出现在’软件定义的数据中心’或者’软件定义的 络’的语境里。 这个奇怪的措辞描述如何使用分布式的管理架构,提出介绍了一种新型的弹性水平对于一个 络或一池子的计算资源是可能的,重建和撤回连接,或重新部署计算资源,并且可以即时生效随时更新。
Sometime around 2011, a new phrase entered the IT lexicon: ‘software-defined.’ The term is sometimes credited to an engineer at VMware, and usually appears in the context of the ‘software-defined data center’ or ‘software-defined network’. The strange phrasing describes how, using distributed management architecture, it is possible to introduce a new level of ‘plasticity’ to a network or a pool of compute resources, re-making and un-making connections, or re-allocating compute resources, on the fly.
维基百科上描述软件定义的数据中心是一个市场营销术语,它或许反映了这样一个现实,在软件定义的商品贸易列表中的公司。 事实上他们可能被认为是创新的,云导向的,有颠覆性的,因此十分有趣。 许多早期的软件定义的创新者在非常高的估值被收购了。
Wikipedia describes SDDC as a ‘marketing term,’ which perhaps reflects the reality that companies and products in the software-defined category trade on the fact that they might be considered innovative, cloud-oriented, disruptive and therefore of great interest. Many of the early ‘software-defined’ innovators were acquired at sky-high valuations.
<定义软件定义的>
Defining software-defined
在这样的语境下,被放在软件定义上的价值和重要性没有不合时宜的。这个架构考虑到许多IT元器件层的硬连线的复杂性被抽象和转移到了一个管理的层面,因此考虑到更简单,同质/同样的设备被定期的部署和管理。聚合资源的使