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Figure 3-1: The web‐scale world.
This is not to say that you’ ll be able to walk away from your datacenter and throw away the keys. You’ ll need manual steps here and there, but you shouldn’ t routinely get involved in ongoing operations.
As you begin to deploy an enterprise cloud and a combination of public and private cloud, the ability to reduce administrative overhead becomes critical. Smaller overhead is one of the ways organizations can reduce OpEx associated with datacenter management.
Universal control plane
Your enterprise cloud should have a universal control plane for all environments, including your public and private cloud. The control plane in an enterprise cloud is the management layer. By using a single universal control plane, you effectively eliminate the need to switch management silos as your business goes from one environment to another for applications. You can see for yourself if you’ re moving along the path toward a universal control plane. Do you have a separate
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