"Software-defined data center (SDDC) (also: virtual data center (VDC)) is a vision for IT infrastructure that extends virtualization concepts such as abstraction, pooling, and automation to all of the data center\u2019s resources and services to achieve IT as a service (ITaaS).In a software-defined data center, \"all elements of the infrastructure \u2014 networking, storage, CPU and security \u2013 are virtualized and delivered as a service.\" While ITaaS may represent an outcome of SDDC, SDDC is differently cast toward integrators and datacenter builders rather than toward tenants. "@en .