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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.

Hitachi Vantara
Top Executive: Gajen Kandiah, CEO
Headquarters: Santa Clara, Calif.
Hitachi Vantara offers a slew of data center hardware and software from storage and hyperconverged infrastructure to data protection and data management as well as its Lumada software for industrial IoT. Hitachi Vantara is set to spend $9.6 billion to acquire digital engineering services company GlobalLogic later this year.