With a rapid upsurge in cloud computing technology, the IT infrastructure market is noticing a remarkable change. Nowadays, businesses have started implementing cloud architecture in their enterprises, thereby evolving the traditional role of IT infrastructure.

Due to the manifold benefits and economies of scale associated with cloud, it has turned out to be an operational necessity for the infrastructure services in place of competitive advantage.

Cloud technology has paved path for a new class of cloud enabled infrastructure which has taken over the traditional market. The emergence of these data centers and cloud storage platforms has transformed the IT industry trends and at the same time has helped businesses gain a competitive edge over others.

Big IT giants, such as Microsoft, Apple, Google and Amazon have developed a clear visibility about the cloud infrastructure. Indeed, they are employing their own cloud products to sell hardware, and other cloud services that are in great demand as per the current cloud infrastructure market.

According to HIS iSuppli Research, cloud server sales will almost double in 2012 compared to 2010 and are on track to become the fastest growing segment of servers by 2015, when units will again double to 1,774,000.

Cloud enabled data centers promote intelligent resource allocation by maximizing the available physical infrastructure capacity. It ensures higher utilization of server devices, high scalability of resources, low capital expenditure, and access to the services across multiple devices.

Software Defined Data Centers, also known as SDDC, helps to apply cloud approach to the traditional networking concept. Under this, the control is provided to a software application which manages the entire data center configurations, unlike the traditional data centers, where the infrastructure and networking is managed through a combination of various hardware and other related devices.

IT market is highly exhilarated with the introduction of cloud enabled infrastructure. Most of the big names such as IBM, Dell, and HP have already ventured into this innovative platform, which helps to overcome infrastructure rigidity and bypass the traditional constraints related to data center management and storage devices.