The New Generation Of Data Center Leaders
Data Centers of the past were pretty straightforward: servers, data storage, networking hubs and routers. But data centers today are highly distributed, with workloads running on-premises and in public and private clouds. Some components of an IT system may be virtualized, software-defined or running in containers. And data centers increasingly link up with networks of mobile and IoT devices.
All this increases data center complexity, and IT managers are turning to their technology vendors and solution providers for help. While many big vendors offer products to help resolve data center challenges, a wave of startups is developing leading-edge technology for building and managing next-generation data centers.
As part of CRN's 2019 Emerging Vendors coverage, here are 11 hot data center companies, all founded in 2013 or later, that solution providers should be aware of.
Founded: 2013
Top Executive: Ken Barth, CEO
Catalogic Software offers copy data management tools that provide access to business operational data for backup, disaster recovery, test and development, and big data analytics tasks across physical, virtual and cloud environments.
Founded: 2014
Top Executive: Tom Barton, CEO
Diamanti provides a Kubernetes-based, bare-metal container infrastructure platform for running stateful containerized applications in production. In April the company launched a global channel program and named Bill Cordero vice president of worldwide channels.
Founded: 2013
Top Executive: Gene Banman, CEO
DriveScale's Composable Infrastructure next-generation server system provides the ability to create, adapt, deploy and redeploy logical servers using pools of disaggregated, heterogeneous compute, storage and network fabric. DriveScale works with partners to help data-driven companies create elastic, bare-metal clouds for data-intensive applications.
Founded: 2016
Top Executive: Zack Blum, Co-Founder, CEO
Fleetsmith automates device setup, fleet intelligence, app and OS updates, and security across Apple device fleets. Fleetsmith ensures visibility and security and streamlines mobile device management, helping organizations running in the cloud automate tedious work, save time and focus on high-value tasks.
