50 Companies On The Forefront Of The Software-Defined Data Center

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Microsoft

Satya Nadella, CEO

Headquarters: Redmond, Wash.

Microsoft wants to help customers implement a complete software-defined data center connected to its Azure cloud. It is doing so with its Hyper-V compute virtualization, Storage Spaces Direct storage virtualization, and SDN technology as part of its Windows Server 2016 operating system.