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CHAPTER 1 The Evolution of the Data Center 7 These materials are © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. » Changes in application development: Changes in DevOps and adoption of continuous integration/continuous deploy- ment (CI/CD) pipelines are enabling business agility and growth. Software release schedules have moved from once or twice a year to many times per day. New application technolo- gies, such as containers, microservices, and Representational State Transfer (REST) application programming interfaces (APIs), are changing the way applications are designed and deployed. Moreover, these new applications no longer reside in a single data center. Instead, they have components that run on- premises, in the cloud, across hybrid clouds, and even on end-users' browsers. This new application development approach places great pressure on network teams to ensure their networks are robust, matching the agility and speed of DevOps as well as the line of business. » Orchestration of workloads that are everywhere: As organizations race to the cloud to gain an economic advantage, data centers and clouds are often indistinguishable. Workloads can be orchestrated and provisioned across the cloud, and applications can reside on-premises one day and in the cloud the next day. This workload mobility is an underlying driver of the hybrid cloud architecture. New orchestration tools allow workloads to be easily provisioned, deployed, and adminis- tered across multiple data center and cloud environments. Network operations for the hybrid cloud require full, continu- ous network insight to better manage security across the data center footprint as well as support orchestration of workloads across multiple locations and in a multi-cloud infrastructure. FIGURE 1-2: Dynamic changes in the data center.