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.

VMware

Top Executive: Rahgu Raghuram, CEO

Headquarters: Palo Alto, Calif.

The leading software provider in the global data center market is run, in some form, by nearly every IT department on the planet. The company’s goal of becoming the world leader for multi-cloud computing is still in play as the firm is absorbed by Broadcom if the recently announced deal is completed.

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O’Ryan Johnson

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