The Hottest Data Center Companies In 2020: CRN's Data Center 50

The data center landscape is changing significantly.

Private equity firms are now leading the data center M&A charge. Companies like Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft are spending billions each quarter building new centers across the globe. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence and automation are becoming key ingredients in most data center products.

And the public cloud market leaders are now jumping into the on-premises space.

This year marks a pivotal time for the data center market as customers seek hybrid IT and multi-cloud solutions. Market leaders are innovating at a rapid pace from power and cooling technology to networking and hyperconverged infrastructure, while colocation providers are now focused on building massive hyperscale facilities.

CRN breaks down the 50 data center vendors that are leading the industry in 2020.