The 50 Hottest Edge Hardware, Software And Services Companies: 2025 Edge Computing 100
CRN’s list of the 50 hottest edge computing hardware, software and services companies of 2025 includes some of the most innovative AI, cloud, chip, networking, server, storage and infrastructure providers on the planet.
The most innovative tech companies in the world have their sights set on edge computing in 2025 with a slew of new AI, cloud computing and infrastructure innovation targeting edge environments this year.
“Edge computing is poised to redefine how businesses leverage real-time data, and its future hinges on tailored, industry-specific solutions that address unique operational demands,” said Dave McCarthy, research vice president for Cloud and Edge Services at IDC, in a statement.
The IT market research firm is projecting global spending on edge computing solutions to reach $260 billion in 2025, with a projected annual growth rate of nearly 14 percent over the next three years, reaching $380 billion by 2028.
“We’re seeing service providers double down on investments—building out low-latency networks, enhancing AI-driven edge analytics and forging partnerships to deliver scalable, secure infrastructure,” said McCarthy.
The Hottest Edge Computing Companies Of 2025
CRN breaks down the 50 hardware, software and services companies dominating and innovating in the edge computing market in 2025.
CRN’s 2025 list includes the largest infrastructure, PC and service providers in the world, including Amazon Web Services, Cisco Systems, Dell Technologies, Equinix, Lenovo, HPE and Google Cloud.
The list also includes edge software superstars like BMC Software, Veeam Software and Microsoft, along with the biggest AI hardware providers in the world like AMD and Nvidia. There are also edge computing specialists like Scale Computing, Hailo Technologies and Latent AI.
Here are the 50 hottest edge hardware, software and services companies of 2025 that solution providers need to know about.
Aaeon
Howard Lin
CEO
Founded in 1992, Aaeon is a top manufacturer of AI edge hardware and embedded computing platforms including Industry 4.0 integrated offerings, hardware and intelligent automated services, as well as IoT platforms that consolidate virtual and physical networks. Taiwan-based Aaeon also provides motherboards, rugged tablets, embedded controllers and network appliances.
Amazon Web Services
Matt Garman
CEO
Cloud computing titan AWS owns 30 percent market share of the global cloud services market and is one of the largest data center builders worldwide. Seattle-based AWS continues to expand its portfolio with new agentic AI, quantum computing chips, AI models and a slew of AI tools to lead the AI era.
AMD
Lisa Su
Chair, CEO
For over 55 years, AMD has been a leader in high-performance computing chips, GPUs and visualization technologies. Santa Clara, Calif.-based AMD is now laser-focused on providing next-generation AI infrastructure via new innovation, AI partnerships such as with OpenAI, as well as acquiring AI companies like ZT Systems and Silo AI.
Axelera AI
Fabrizio Del Maffeo
Co-Founder, CEO
Semiconductor startup Axelera AI provides purpose-built AI hardware acceleration technology for AI inference, including computer vision and generative AI applications. Axelera’s Metis AI platform is a hardware and software platform for edge AI inference, which The Netherlands-based company says is the world’s highest-performance, most-power-efficient and least-costly AI platform.
BMC Software
Ayman Sayed
President, CEO
Global software innovator BMC Software has over 6,500 employees in 40 countries with annual sales of $2.3 billion. The Houston-based company is doubling down on AI with new offerings such as BMC AMI Assistant conversational AI and its BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence that automates and simplifies mainframe management.
Broadcom
Hock Tan
CEO
Hardware and software powerhouse Broadcom develops and supplies a large range of semiconductor, software and security offerings. The $64 billion company, based in Palo Alto, Calif., owns a broad portfolio of cloud, data center, networking, broadband, wireless, storage, industrial and enterprise software, along with being the owner of cloud computing and virtualization innovator VMware.
Cato Networks
Shlomo Kramer
Co-Founder, CEO
Cato Networks provides enterprise security and networking via a single cloud platform. The SASE specialist enables threat prevention, data protection, and timely incident detection and response for organizations. Tel Aviv, Israel-based Cato aims to replace costly and rigid legacy infrastructure with an open and modular SASE architecture based on SD-WAN and an embedded cloud-native security stack.
Cisco Systems
Chuck Robbins
Chair, CEO
Cisco is a top innovator in cybersecurity and AI-focused infrastructure. The San Jose, Calif.-based company has also been embedding AI into its vast portfolio, including agentic AI capabilities into its collaboration, observability and security product suites, as well as forming tight partnerships and deep integrations with AI companies like Nvidia.
Citrix (Cloud Software Group)
Tom Krause
CEO
Citrix provides a secure application and desktop delivery platform to enable a secure and flexible workforce to its 16 million cloud users. The Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based software development specialist’s platform includes virtual apps and desktops, zero-trust access and high-performance secure application delivery, all with end-to-end observability.
Cohesion
Thru Shivakumar
Founder, CEO
Chicago-based Cohesion is a smart building technology provider offering a suite of software products, AI, energy management, security access control solutions and advisory services that integrates people and systems. Savvy by Cohesion is a new analytics platform that connects to a building’s systems to give customers AI-powered insight anytime from any device.
CyberPower Systems
Brent Lovett
President and General Manager
CyberPower Systems is a global provider of uninterruptible power supply systems, power distribution units , remote management hardware, power management software and connectivity products. CyberPower, based in Shakopee, Minn., recently launched its PowerPanel Cloud Pro and PowerPanel Gateway software to expand remote monitoring to an unlimited number of UPSes and PDUs.
Dell Technologies
Michael Dell
Founder, Chairman, CEO
A world leader in servers, storage, data protection, cybersecurity and PCs, Dell Technologies has one of the largest AI infrastructure portfolios on CRN’s list. The Round Rock, Texas-based IT powerhouse has been investing heavily in AI, including its new Dell AI Data Platform, --ObjectScale storage platform, AI PCs and edge devices.
Eaton
Paulo Ruiz
CEO
Intelligent power management superstar Eaton has continually evolved over the past century into a $26 billion company with customers in over 160 countries. Dublin, Ireland-based Eaton provides hardware and software products for the data center, industrial, commercial, machine building, aerospace and mobility markets. Ruiz was appointed Eaton’s CEO in June.
Equinix
Adaire Fox-Martin
President, CEO
Equinix owns and operates a massive network of 270 AI-ready data centers with over 10,000 customers. The Redwood City, Calif.-based company recently unveiled its Distributed AI infrastructure that includes an AI-ready backbone to support distributed AI deployments, a global AI Solutions Lab to test new solutions and Fabric Intelligence to support AI workloads.
Extreme Networks
Ed Meyercord
President, CEO
Extreme Networks is a top provider of AI-powered cloud networking with a focus on delivering secure solutions that enable connections among devices, applications and users. The $1.2 billion network and security provider, based in Morrisville, N.C., recently rolled out an AI Service Agent for its Extreme Platform One customers.
Getac
James Hwang
Chairman, President
Getac specializes in AI-capable rugged mobile technology and video offerings such as laptops, tablets, software, body-worn cameras, in-car video systems, digital evidence management and enterprise video analytics solutions. Taiwan-based Getac just released its F120, dubbing it as the world’s first rugged Microsoft Copilot+ PC in a tablet form factor.
Gigamon
Shane Buckley
President, CEO
Gigamon provides deep observability offerings that deliver network-derived telemetry to cloud, security and observability tools to eliminate security blind spots. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Gigamon’s new AI Traffic Intelligence software offers real-time visibility into generative AI and large language model traffic to help customers uncover shadow AI and strengthen cyber defenses.
Google Cloud
Thomas Kurian
CEO
Google Cloud continues to invest billions each year in AI-ready data centers, AI accelerator chips, agentic AI and foundational models innovation. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company’s Google Cloud Platform provides computing, data storage, data analytics, machine learning and management, while its Google Workspace collaboration suite now includes built-in Gemini AI technology.
Greensparc
Sam Enoka
Founder, CEO
With sustainable, high-performance GPU hosting deployment, Greensparc delivers scalable edge offerings powered by green energy that can support high-demand AI workloads in remote geographies. San Francisco-based Greensparc owns a modular, prefabricated infrastructure with a focus on affordable, environmentally conscious AI hosting capabilities.
Hailo Technologies
Orr Danon
CEO
Hailo Technologies builds AI processors uniquely designed to enable high-performance, machine learning applications on edge devices. The Tel Aviv, Israel-based company’s chips are geared toward generative AI at the edge, in parallel to enabling perception and video enhancement through its wide range of AI accelerators and vision processors.
Hitachi Vantara
Sheila Rohra
CEO
Hitachi Vantara offers top-notch storage platforms, data management and Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings with a focus on AI in recent years. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company just launched its Hitachi EverFlex AI Data Hub as a Service, a infrastructure consumption service that addresses AI data preparation challenges by providing a data lakehouse with integrated workbench capabilities.
HP Inc.
Enrique Lores
President, CEO
Operating in over 170 countries, HP Inc. delivers a wide range of devices, services and subscriptions for personal computing, printing, 3-D printing, hybrid work and gaming. This year, Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP launched new monitors, printing technology and a Nvidia-powered HP ZGX Nano AI Station with enough power to run a 200-billion parameter model.
HPE
Antonio Neri
President, CEO
HPE is a world leader in severs, storage, networking, hybrid cloud and PCs with a focus this year on new AI innovation. The Spring, Texas-based company’s HPE Private Cloud AI is a full-stack, turnkey private cloud for AI in partnership with Nvidia aimed at accelerating AI deployment, production and security with low-code tools.
IBM
Arvind Krishna
Chairman, CEO
From databases and containers to servers and storage, IBM has a huge product portfolio with a focus on AI. The Armonk, N.Y.-based company just launched its AI Defense Model that delivers reliable intelligence for defense and national security. IBM also unveiled new innovation for its hybrid cloud, quantum computing and Red Hat OpenShift offerings this year.
IGEL
Klaus Oestermann
CEO
IGEL specializes in secure endpoint delivery and adaptive secure desktop offerings, while its flagship Secure Endpoint OS Platform enables hybrid work, accelerates cloud adoption and enforces zero trust across all environments. This year, the San Francisco-based company acquired endpoint OS software and management provider Stratodesk.
Intel
Lip-Bu Tan
CEO
Semiconductor giant Intel continues to innovate in the AI era with new Intel Core Ultra processors and Intel Xeon chips unveiled this year. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel also revealed a 160-GB, energy-efficient data center GPU as part of a new annual GPU release cadence to deliver on its strategy of providing open systems and software architecture for AI systems.
Lantronix
Saleel Awsare
President, CEO
Lantronix provides edge AI and industrial IoT offerings that deliver intelligent computing, secure connectivity and remote management for critical applications. The Irvine, Calif.-based company lets customers optimize operations and accelerate transformation via its hardware, software and services that power applications—like video surveillance and intelligent utility infrastructure—to out-of-band network management.
Latent AI
Jags Kandasamy
Co-Founder, CEO
Founded in 2018, Latent AI delivers edge AI offerings that enable rapid deployment of AI capabilities on any device. The Princeton, N.J.-based company’s developer platform helps government and commercial organizations implement secure AI solutions at the edge alongside Latent AI’s tools that enable developers to build and update adaptive AI models.
Lenovo
Yuanquing Yang
Chairman, CEO
The $70 billion PC powerhouse owns a portfolio of AI-enabled and optimized devices including tablets, workstations, smartphones and PCs. Beijing, China-based Lenovo also is a global provider of server, storage, high-performance computing, software and edge computing offerings, as well as agentic AI tools.
Lisnr
Eric Allen
President, CEO
Lisnr’s software development kit Radius and consumer engagement platform Quest allow customers to recognize presence, personalize experiences and process transactions in real time. This year, Cincinnati-based Lisnr launched Radius 3.1 to deliver a more complete, real-world offering for proximity-based authentication and engagement.
LogicMonitor
Christina Kosmowski
CEO
LogicMonitor’s SaaS-based platform, LM Envision, enables observability across on-premises and multi-cloud environments. Edwin AI is the company’s new AI Agent for IT Operations offering that is purpose-built to accelerate incident investigation and resolution. The Santa Barbara, Calif.-based company also has injected its flagship platform with new agentic AI technologies in 2025.
Microsoft
Satya Nadella
Chairman, CEO
Microsoft is the world’s largest software company and the second biggest global cloud computing firm thanks to Azure. The $304 billion Redmond, Wash.-based company has been injecting AI into nearly all of its popular products—from Azure and Copilot AI to Windows 11 and Microsoft Teams.
NetApp
George Kurian
CEO
Longtime storage giant NetApp has become an intelligent data infrastructure specialist that helps customers turn data into a catalyst for innovation and growth via its data platform that connects, secures and activates data across every cloud, workload and environment. The San Jose, Calif.-based company launched its NetApp AI Data Engine in October.
Nutanix
Rajiv Ramaswami
President, CEO
Hybrid cloud all-star Nutanix providers customers with a unified platform for running applications and AI and managing data anywhere. With a growing customer base that now exceeds 29,000, San Jose, Calif.-based Nutanix powers multi-cloud environments with cost efficiency in mind as it looks to win over VMware by Broadcom clients.
Nvidia
Jensen Huang
CEO
Nvidia is the largest AI chip company on the planet thanks to its innovative GPUs and systems that advance AI, HPC, automation and infrastructure. Companies around the world are building Nvidia-powered AI environments to process, refine and manufacture intelligence from data, boosting the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company’s market cap to $5 trillion.
OnLogic
Sean Larkin
CEO
OnLogic is a hardware manufacturer that designs highly configurable and rugged systems engineered for the edge. The South Burlington, Vt.-based company’s systems are made to operate in extremely harsh environments, enabling customers to solve complex computing challenges no matter their industry. Its new Karbon 520 Series has integrated AI capabilities with an on-board NPU for localized processing.
Pure Storage
Chales Giancarlo
Chairman, CEO
Pure Storage delivers one of the industry’s most advanced data storage platforms to store, manage and protect data at any scale. From AI to archive capabilities, Santa Clara, Calif.-based Pure delivers a cloud experience with a unified Storage as-a-Service platform across on-premises, cloud and hosted environments, built on its Evergreen architecture that evolves alongside customers.
Rafay Systems
Haseeb Budhami
Co-Founder, CEO
Founded in 2017, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Rafay Systems provides an infrastructure orchestration and workflow automation platform for managing cloud-native and AI workloads. The company’s GPU Platform as a Service aims to simplify the complexities of managing cloud and on-premises infrastructure while enabling self-service workflows for platform and DevOps teams.
Red Hat
Matt Hicks
President, CEO
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open-source software solutions and is a hybrid cloud technology leader. Its portfolio of cloud, developer, AI, Linux, automation and application platform technologies enables any application, anywhere—from the data center to the edge. Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat invests in open ecosystems and communities.
SAP
Christian Klein
Chairman, CEO
From pioneering ERP software to new AI offerings, such as a network of role-based AI assistants in Joule, Walldorf, Germany-based SAP’s innovation goes beyond software. SAP Business AI integrates AI across its business applications to boost productivity, automate a slew of tasks and provide intelligent insight.
Scale Computing
Jeff Ready
Co-Founder, CEO
Scale Computing provides one of the industry’s most popular edge computing platforms that is positioned to power the AI-driven future of distributed enterprises. Providing edge computing, managed network security, re-virtualization and hyperconverged solutions, the Indianapolis-based company is delivering an integrated infrastructure that adapts and scales from one to 50,000 locations.
Schneider Electric
Olivier Blum
CEO
Power giant Schneider Electric is a leader in the convergence of automation, power, liquid cooling and digital intelligence. The company integrates energy and automation control with scalable software and services across data centers, buildings, factories, grids and infrastructure. Through its IoT-enabled EcoStruxure platform, the France-based company embeds intelligence at every level to enable more efficient operations.
ScienceLogic
David Link
Founder, CEO
ScienceLogic looks to deliver the agentic AI engine that powers modern IT by uniting observability, AI and automation into a single platform that anticipates, prevents and resolves issues before they impact customers. The Reston, Va.-based company’s Skylar One offering provides service-centric observability across hybrid and multi-vendor environments, while Skylar AI powers correlation, prediction and proactive remediation.
Solidigm
Xin Guo
Co-CEO
Enterprise data specialist Solidigm provides NAND flash memory and solid-state drives for data centers and applications. The Rancho Cordova, Calif.-based company launched its first enterprise SSD with single-sided direct-to-chip liquid cooling technology, the Solidigm D7-PS1010 SSD, dubbing it one of the fastest PCIe 5.0 SSDs in the world for direct-attach storage AI workloads.
Spectro Cloud
Tenry Fu
Co-Founder, CEO
Spectro Cloud is a global provider of Kubernetes management and secure cloud-native platforms with a focus on simplicity. The San Jose, Calif.-based company empowers customers to design, deploy and operate consistent Kubernetes and AI environments—from edge to data center to cloud—with its Palette and PaletteAI platforms.
StorMagic
Susan Odle
CEO
Founded in 2006, StorMagic is a provider of hyperconverged infrastructure and virtualized storage offerings with a focus on edge computing environments. Odle became CEO of the Bristol, England-based company in April, and in May the company launched a new global channel partner program.
Vcinity
Harry Carr
Chairman, CEO
Data and AI specialist Vcinity enables applications and users to instantly access data, no matter where the data resides. Designed for high-latency and distributed environments, the San Jose, Calif.-based company develops software for accessing and moving large volumes of file and object data over any distance with low latency.
Veeam Software
Anand Eswaran
CEO
Veeam Software is a data resilience all-star and global provider of disaster recovery, backup and data protection software. Veeam’s offerings are purpose-built for powering data resilience by providing data backup, recovery, portability, security and intelligence. In October, the Kirkland, Wash.-based company acquired data security management provider Securiti AI.
Vertiv
Giordano Albertazzi
CEO
Global infrastructure provider Vertiv brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable vital applications to run continuously and perform optimally. With a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure offerings, Westerville, Ohio-based Vertiv looks to solve the challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial facilities.
Wasabi Technologies
David Friend
Co-Founder, President, CEO
Cloud storage specialist Wasabi provides a cost-effective and secure storage alternative to hyperscalers’ cloud services, offering a straightforward pricing model that eliminates egress and API request fees. Boston-based Wasabi allows customers the freedom to use their data whenever they want without being hit with unpredictable fees or vendor lock-in.