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The 50 Coolest Software-Defined Data Center Vendors Of 2021
Mark Haranas
From Citrix and HPE to IP Infusion and Lightbits Labs, here are the 50 hottest IT companies leading the software-defined data center market in 2021.

Device42
Top Executive: Raj Jalan, Founder, CEO
Headquarters: West Haven, Conn.
Device42 continually discovers, maps and optimizes infrastructure and applications across data centers and cloud by grouping workloads by application affinities. The company’s software portfolio revolves around asset management, automatic device discovery, application mapping and integration. Last year, the company acquired storage discovery specialist ArrayIQ.