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

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IBM

Ginni Rometty, Chairman, President, CEO

Headquarters: Armonk N.Y.

Ever since IBM exited the x86-based server business, the company has thrown its storage focus at software-defined data centers with its IBM Spectrum family, which covers software-defined hybrid cloud data management, data protection, archiving, block and virtualized block storage, and object storage.