The 50 Coolest Software-Defined Data Center Vendors Of 2021

June 07, 2021, 09:00 AM EDT

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.

Opengear

Top Executive: Gary Marks, President

Headquarters: Edison, N.J.

Opengear provides networking monitoring, data center and infrastructure management offerings for secure remote access. The company’s Network Resilience Platform provides remote access to network devices through a separate management plane with the ability to automate NetOps processes such as securely deploying and provisioning equipment and to access remote IP devices at any edge location.

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