25 Hot Software-Defined Data Center Infrastructure Companies: 2022 SDDC 50

June 07, 2022, 01:00 PM EDT

While the cloud continues to chart strong growth, reports of the death of on-prem architecture have proven to be premature.

Red Hat

Top Executive: Paul Cormier, CEO

Headquarters: Raleigh, N.C.

The IBM company is the leading provider of open-source enterprise software for high performance Linux, hybrid cloud, container and Kubernetes technologies. One of its products, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® for Virtual Datacenters gives customers the ability to deploy unlimited guests in dense virtualized environments on supported hypervisors, such as Openshift Virtualization, Red Hat Virtualization, VMware, and Microsoft HyperV. Big blue acquired Red Hat in 2019 for $34 billion.

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O’Ryan Johnson

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