By Virginie DOTTA – Technical Director, Virtual Infrastructure SQUAD
Gone are the days of traditional infrastructures made up of specific hardware that quickly becomes obsolete and adopts fixed architectures that are impossible to upgrade over time. Make way for agility and flexibility, which are no longer limited to applications and their development, but now extend to infrastructures, regardless of their size and architecture. We are talking about standardization, automation, and combinable components that enable better industrialization.
Software-defined everything is taking over, making these components (and more broadly the infrastructure itself) programmable, providing flexibility and responsiveness.
There are many advantages:
- Better management of component lifecycle,
- End-to-end vision,
- Cost reduction and control,
- Improved time to market.
How can this be achieved? Adopting the DevOps culture is a priority, with developers and operations staff working together within the same teams. Gone are the traditional "Dev" and "Infra" teams, and this also affects IT infrastructures, combining digital (agile and bimodal) and traditional (legacy) approaches. And technologies are following suit, with increasingly innovative solutions emerging, most of which are based on virtualization and hyper-convergence, often presented as the new generation of virtualization. At Squad, we follow the DevOps paradigm, supporting and training our consultants in the latest methodologies and tools to meet our clients' needs.
