Wasabi Technologies
Top Executive: David Friend, CEO, President and Co-Founder
Headquarters: Boston
The cloud and edge storage startup, founded by former Carbonite CEO David Friend, allows customers to store infinite amounts of data with no data egress charges or API fees. Wasabi Technologies launched its first ever partner program last year and has generated a total of $110 million in funding.
Vertiv
Top Executive: Rob Johnson, CEO
Headquarters: Columbus, Ohio
The $4.3 billion company provides a slew of data center hardware along with monitoring and management software to provide visibility from the core to the edge of the network. Vertiv went public in February on the New York Stock Exchange after the company’s recent merger with GS Acquisition Holdings.
SolarWinds
Top Executive: Kevin Thompson, CEO and President
Headquarters: Austin, Texas
The end-to-end data center monitoring and management standout provides software around network performance, storage, computing, configuration and applications. In 2019 SolarWinds acquired SaaS-based database performance management company VividCortex, security management firm Passportal and cloud-based service desk software provider Samanage.
Scale Computing
Top Executive: Jeff Ready, CEO
Headquarters: Indianapolis, Ind.
Scale Computing’s HC3 hyper-converged software eliminates the need for traditional virtualization software, disaster recovery and shared storage with a fully integrated system for running applications. The company is investing heavily in edge computing as well as in its HyperCore software, which automatically identifies, mitigates and corrects infrastructure problems in real time.
Pivot3
Top Executive: Bill Stover, CEO
Headquarters: Austin, Texas
The hyper-converged infrastructure and surveillance provider offers software that consolidates video storage, video management and analytics workloads. Pivot3’s Acuity Datacenter series is powered by NVMe flash and optimized by Pivot3’s Intelligence Engine, which automates data and workload mobility and disaster recovery operations. Pivot3’s former chief financial officer, Bill Stover, took over the CEO reins in July.
Nlyte Software
Top Executive: Doug Sabella, President and CEO
Headquarters: Edison, N.J.
The infrastructure and asset management company is focused on planning, managing and optimizing data centers. Nlyte Software enables enterprises to extend management software to include the physical layer with the logical and virtual layers of the data center through its suite of monitoring, workflow, inventory and analytics capabilities, which automates the management of hybrid infrastructure.
NS1
Top Executive: Kris Beevers, CEO and Founder
Headquarters: New York
NS1 is an application traffic management and DNS (domain name server) provider that helps customers migrate and expand applications to data centers. The company recently raised $33 million in a funding round and launched its first-ever global channel program in October, aiming to onboard Cisco partners as it ties solutions to Cisco’s security portfolio.
Modius
Top Executive: Craig Compiano, President and CEO
Headquarters: San Francisco
Modius is one of the key smaller players in the data center infrastructure management and monitoring market with its flagship OpenData scalable software platform that collects unstructured big data tailored for optimizing IoT, power and energy, and data centers. Moduis CEO Compiano has been at the helm for more than 16 years.
IP Infusion
Top Executive: Atsushi Ogata, CEO and President
Headquarters: Santa Clara, Calif.
IP Infusion enables disaggregated networking solutions for data center operators by providing software that includes virtual routers along with secure enterprise and branch connectivity. The company’s OcNOS packet optical transponder solution combines software, open networking and a data center operations model for web-scale and cost-effective data center interconnection.
Huawei
Top Executive: Ren Zhengfei, CEO and Founder
Headquarters: Shenzhen, China
The China-based communications and technology powerhouse Huawei is a leader in designing and building cloud computing data centers with end-to-end solutions including software-defined networking, servers, storage, backup, disaster recovery and converged infrastructure. Huawei has been doubling down on software innovation including multi-protocol interworking and multi-level reliability.
Hitachi Vantara
Top Executive: Toshiaki Tokunaga, CEO and Chairman
Headquarters: Santa Clara, Calif.
The company’s Smart Data Center combines advanced data center analytics, artificial intelligence and automation along with storage and hyperconverged infrastructure. Earlier this year Japanese conglomerate Hitachi completed the merger of Hitachi Vantara and Hitachi Consulting, combining the consulting-led organization with Vantara’s focus on data center, data operations and digital transformation.
FalconStor
Top Executive: Todd Brooks, CEO
Headquarters: Melville, N.Y.
The data management software company provides a vendor-agnostic protection platform for comprehensive on-premises cloud storage and data management. FalconStor’s StoreSafe leverages software container technology that uses virtualization at the application layer versus the system layer, allowing it to disaggregate data storage from system-level components.
Extreme Networks
Top Executive: Ed Meyercord, CEO and President
Headquarters: San Jose, Calif.
Extreme Networks’ Agile Data Center portfolio provides a wide range of networking, analytics, programmable ASICs, open APIs and automation managed through a single pane of glass. Last yea, the company acquired networking competitor Aerohive Networks for $210 million to strengthen its cloud management, SD-WAN and edge capabilities.
Eaton
Top Executive: Craig Arnold, CEO and Chairman
Headquarters: Dublin, Ireland
The $21.4 billion data center intelligent power management specialist provides an array of power software solutions for UPS systems, backup and ePDUs, as well as remote monitoring services and a focus on enabling the Internet of Things. Eaton’s Intelligence Platform for power management works to automate, monitor, visualize and predict problems before they strike.
DriveNets
Top Executive: Ido Susan, CEO and Co-Founder
Headquarters: Ra’anana, Israel
Networking software startup DriveNets launched out of stealth last year with $110 million in funding with the goal to simplify and scale the rollout of 5G. The DriveNets Network Cloud applies hyper-scale cloud approaches to service providers’ networks to simplify operational models, better enable rapid service innovation and increase profitability.
Device42
Top Executive: Raj Jalan, CEO and Founder
Headquarters: West Haven, Conn.
Device42’s technology can continuously discover, map and optimize infrastructure and applications across data centers and cloud, providing accurate views of a customer’s IT ecosystem. The company provides data center software around asset management, device discovery, role-base access, application mapping, integrations and software license management.
DataDirect Networks
Top Executive: Alex Bouzari, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder
Headquarters: Chatsworth, Calif.
Twenty-two-year-old DataDirect Networks helps customers manage their data at scale with analytics and artificial intelligence software that maximizes processing and reduces application run time. Last year, DDN acquired software-defined storage specialist Nexenta in a move to build 5G infrastructure foundation software and boost its high-performance computing capabilities.
Datacore
Top Executive: Dave Zabrowski, CEO
Headquarters: Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
The software-defined storage specialist offers advanced data storage technology to accelerate performance, increase efficiency and allow customers to achieve zero-downtime availability. DataCore provides virtualization software for block-based, hyperconverged, hybrid cloud and distributed file and object storage, while eliminating hardware and vendor lock-in.
Commvault
Top Executive: Sanjay Mirchandani, CEO
Headquarters: Tinton Falls, N.J.
Data protection and management software developer Commvault recently acquired Hedvig, a developer of a software-defined distributed storage offering combining block, file and object storage, for $225 million. Commvault provides a variety of intelligent data management software to help customers turn data into a powerful strategic asset.
Clumio
Top Executive: Poojan Kumar, CEO
Headquarters: Santa Clara, Calif.
Clumio launched out of stealth in 2019 with its flagship backup Software-as-a-Service system led by a group of veteran engineers hailing from Oracle, Nutanix and VMware. Clumio recently introduced cloud-native Amazon RDS data protection with its new Backup-as-a-Service, as well as cloud-native data protection for Microsoft 365. The company has raised $135 million in funding.
Citrix
Top Executive: David Henshall, CEO and President
Headquarters: Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Citrix offers an array of data center solutions including SD-WAN, traffic management, application delivery management and analytics to boost performance and its own hypervisor. Citrix’s solutions are used by more than 400,000 organizations. The company recently hired former SAP executive Bronwyn Hastings to lead its worldwide channel sales and ecosystem.
Cato Networks
Top Executive: Shlomo Kramer, CEO and Co-Founder
Headquarters: Alpharetta, Ga.
Cato Networks connects remote offices, mobile users, data centers and cloud resources into a secure and optimized global, managed, software-defined WAN. In April the fast growing startup raised $77 million in funding to fuel sales and marketing efforts as well as develop remote working and cloud-based security capabilities.
Apstra
Top Executive: David Cheriton, CEO and Co-Founder
Headquarters: Menlo Park, Calif.
The pioneer for intent-based networking, Apstra automates the design, build, deployment and operations of data center networks through its distributed system architecture and vendor-agnostic overlay. Apstra recently nabbed Extreme Networks co-founder Herb Schneider to lead all engineering efforts and launched its first formal channel partner program in March to help scale up its data center networking solutions.
APC By Schneider Electric
Top Executive: Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Chairman and CEO
Headquarters: West Kingston, R.I.
APC by Schneider Electric has been innovating on the software and services front, including cloud-enabled UPS with Connected Smart-UPS that offers remote monitoring and the SaaS-based data center management platform EcoStruxure IT Expert. The company is simplifying management of edge computing sites for partners with its new remote monitoring and dispatch services.
Arista Networks
Top Executive: Jayshree Ullal, CEO and President
Headquarters: Santa Clara, Calif.
The longtime data center networking powerhouse made its biggest acquisition in years with the purchase of Big Switch Networks in February, known for its next-generation data center switching Big Cloud Fabric. Arista Networks generated $2.4 billion in sales in fiscal year 2019 with plans to leverage Big Switch to boost its analytics, visibility and automation technology capabilities.
Arrcus
Top Executive: Devesh Garg, CEO and Co-Founder
Headquarters: San Jose, Calf.
Arrcus’ mission is to democratize networking by providing best-in-class software and a flexible consumption model to enable open integration of hardware, silicon and software. The startup’s flagship 64-bit network operating system, ArcOS, is fully programmable and modular software that allows customers to cost-effectively design, deploy and manage data center infrastructure.
