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

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Meg Whitman, President, CEO

Headquarters: Palo Alto, Calif.

HPE offers both software-defined storage and software-defined networking. The company's StoreVirtual software-defined storage offering supports VMware, Hyper-V and Linux. Its SDN Open Ecosystem includes an SDN app store for deploying apps directly to the HPE VAN SDN Controller, and a developer kit for creating apps for SDN-enabled devices.