Software-defined infrastructure providers

The multi-cloud tsunami swirling around the data center environment is only growing, with nearly every vendor in the space emerging as the go-to solution for the latest iteration of massive ensemble computing. of data.

As the cloud continues to see strong growth, reports of the death of on-premises architecture have proven premature. In fact, more than one vendor noted a minor but noticeable move of some workloads out of the cloud, and a return to the speed and reliable cost of an on-premises data center.

As app makers use larger and more complex datasets to build machine learning models, the processing, storage, security, and power demands of these enterprise workloads only increase. ‘increase.

Additionally, the lessons vendors have learned during the COVID-19 pandemic about securing and provisioning thousands of remote environments through the cloud aren’t going away, as the work from home that has been largely enabled by the center of data, didn’t shrink as quickly as the virus that caused it.

The software-defined data center vendors below are driven by automation, resource pooling, and virtualization to make their customers’ environments more agile and flexible. The trend of customers buying data center infrastructure and software as a service is fueling growth in the hybrid cloud era.

Consolidation is also driving business decisions as major hardware and software players seek combinations that can generate new value.

Here, CRN breaks down 25 software-defined data center infrastructure providers that are shaping the new multi-cloud world.