A virtual data centre (VDC) is an abstraction of physical IT components that are designed to meet the requirements of business of enterprises. By using virtualization technologies, VDCs VDC provides the same compute, storage, networking, and data access capabilities as traditional IT infrastructure, but reduces costs, complexity, and maintenance, while enhancing agility.

Virtualization can speed up hardware provisioning and scaling on demand to accommodate business growth. It also supports agile software development practices and DevOps, making it an ideal fit with modern IT architecture. It also lowers IT support and labor costs, which allows businesses to spend more on innovation.

VDCs can be built on-premises in a central location (private cloud) or hosted by third parties who offer cloud solutions to many companies at a time (public cloud). In either scenario, the virtualization of the platform can lower maintenance and operational costs.

The hardware that is used to build and deploy a VDC can be purchased from the vendor or leased by an IT managed service provider. It’s sometimes referred as hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) because it combines storage, computing, and network equipment into an integrated system that runs on a software platform and can scale up and down.

A VDC can be run on a variety of operating systems that include Linux, Windows, and VMware. It can be used in a hub-and-spoke design, with the main infrastructure being in the hub and applications explanation and workloads in spokes. This design follows the structure of the roles and responsibilities, while offering reduced costs due to component and data flow centralization, as well as more efficient management, operations and compliance.