Source: https://expedient.com/2018/09/13/

# Archive of posts from 2018

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## [Expedient's Cloud Evolution - A Vision 5 Years in the Making](/knowledgebase/blog/2018-09-13-expedient-cloud-evolution-a-vision-5-years-in-the-making/)

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Author[AJ Kuftic](#)

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In 2013, Pat Gelsinger walked on stage at a capacity VMworld general session and introduced a vision for the next evolution of virtualization: the Software-Defined Data Center. A model where infrastructure provisioning would be disaggregated from the underlying hardware and defined simply by code. At the time, most people in the packed Moscone Center had very little concept of...

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