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

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VMware

Pat Gelsinger, CEO

Headquarters: Palo Alto, Calif.

VMware was the first to push the idea of the software-defined data center. It does so by integrating its market-leading vSphere compute virtualization, vSAN storage virtualization and NSX network virtualization technologies.