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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.
Western Digital
Top Executive: David Goeckeler, CEO
Headquarters: San Jose, Calif.
Led by former Cisco top executive Goeckeler, Western Digital provides a variety of data center object storage, solid and hard disk drives. The $16.7 billion company’s OpenFlex composable infrastructure data center platform uses NVMe-over-Fabric to improve compute and storage utilization, performance and agility, while allowing storage to be disaggregated from compute.
