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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.

Red Hat
Top Executive: Paul Cormier, President, CEO
Headquarters: Raleigh, N.C.
The open-source software player uses a developer community-powered approach to delivering container, Kubernetes, Linux and hybrid cloud technologies to data centers. Red Hat, which is now part of IBM, continually launches new products and features for OpenShift, the company’s open-source container platform based on a Kubernetes orchestrator for app development and deployment.