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

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NetApp

George Kurian, President, CEO

Headquarters: Sunnyvale, Calif.

NetApp has turned many of its storage appliances into virtualized appliances for easy migration between on-premise and cloud infrastructures, and manages them along with third-party storage in software-defined data centers with its Ontap operating system, OnCommand management suite and FlexArray virtualization software.