Emerging Vendors 2018: Data Center Companies To Watch
IT Central
Despite the distributed nature of IT today, including the widespread move to cloud computing and the adoption of virtual and software-defined technologies, the data center remains at the heart of many businesses' IT operations.
And while vendors like Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell EMC and Cisco may dominate the data center equipment market, there's plenty of room for startups offering converged and hyper-converged systems, IT management tools and other next-generation data center products.
As part of CRN's 2018 Emerging Vendors list, here are 10 hot data center companies, all founded in 2012 or later, that solution providers should be aware of.
Catalogic Software
Founded: 2013
Top Executive: CEO Ken Barth
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=32
Catalogic provides copy data management and data protection software used by businesses to manage, protect, recover, orchestrate and make use of their copy data across enterprise and cloud systems in support of mission-critical IT systems such as disaster recovery, DevOps and business analytics.
Diamanti
Founded: 2014
Top Executive: Co-Founder, CEO Jeff Chou
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=33
Diamanti developed a bare-metal container platform that extends the benefits of hyper-converged infrastructure for a containerized world with rapid installation, simple management, and container network and storage resources integrated with Docker and Kubernetes. D10 gives the channel a clear path to selling high-margin container offerings.
DriveScale
Founded: 2013
Top Executive: CEO Gene Banman
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=34
DriveScale's Software Composable Infrastructure is a next-generation data center technology for big data workloads. DriveScale lets IT teams deploy independent pools of compute and storage resources and easily combine them in any ratio to compose optimally sized clusters, on demand and under software control.
Kaleao
Founded: 2015
Top Executive: CEO Giampietro Tecchiolli
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=35
Kaleao is a pioneer in "web-scale" converged infrastructure with its KMAX hyper-converged, integrated hardware and software platforms. The KMAX systems combine computation, storage, networking and virtualization into compact, energy-efficient solutions.
Mesosphere
Founded: 2013
Top Executive: Co-Founder, CEO Florian Leibert
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=36
Mesosphere's DC/OS (data center operating system) provides a platform for running containerized, data-intensive applications. In May Mesosphere raised $125 million in Series D financing and the company has a growing roster of channel partners, including global and regional systems integrators.
Nautilus Data Technologies
Founded: 2013
Top Executive: President, CEO Jim Connaughton
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=37
Nautilus Data Technologies' mainstay product is a transformative, naturally water-cooled data center. Its patented technology integrates proven maritime and industrial water-cooling technology with next-generation data center infrastructure, along with artificial intelligence and machine-learning capabilities.
Procurri
Founded: 2013
Top Executive: Head, Americas Zack Sexton
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=38
Procurri provides data center equipment and life-cycle services, particularly around enterprise storage systems from IBM, EMC, Hitachi and NetApp. A core part of its service offerings is its PROtect third-party maintenance platform.
Stratoscale
Founded: 2013
Top Executive: Founder, CEO Ariel Maislos
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=39
Stratoscale develops an AWS-compatible suite of cloud services for development teams and a software-defined cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service solution. The offerings help businesses transform their data centers into agile, scalable environments that are aligned with public cloud systems.
vXchnge
Founded: 2013
Top Executive: Chairman, CEO Keith Olsen
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=40
The vXchnge Insite platform is the foundation for the company's Data-Center-as-a-Service portfolio, monitoring infrastructure and maintaining business continuity. Insite supplies mission-critical data center information, providing customers with 24x7x365 real-time transparency, governance and compliance capabilities, and reporting on network and power performance.
WeaveWorks
Founded: 2014
Top Executive: CEO Alexis Richardson
Emerging vendor details: /rankings-and-lists/ev2018-details.htm?c=41
Weaveworks' Weave Cloud operations-as-a-service technology helps DevOps teams connect, deploy and monitor containers and microservices on any server or public cloud, speeding up the delivery of cloud-native applications. The company is backed by Google Ventures and Accel Partners.