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Gartner predicts that Cisco will make continued investments to expand analytics and assurance, as well as its multicloud offerings, to continue as a strong candidate for data center/cloud networking. Gartner named three vendors to the Leaders quadrant for this report: Cisco, Arista Networks, and Juniper Networks. The 11 data center and cloud networking vendors in this year’s Magic Quadrant are Arista Networks, Cisco, Cumulus Networks, Dell EMC, Extreme, H3C, HPE (Aruba), Huawei, Juniper Networks, NVIDIA-Mellanox Technologies, and VMware.Īt Solutions Review, we read the Magic Quadrant report, available here, and pulled out the key takeaways in the data center networking space, including vendor positions and where the data center networking market is headed. From these measurements, the vendors are placed into one of four categories: Leaders, Challengers, Visionaries, and Niche Players. Gartner then measures each vendor on both the completeness of their vision and their ability to execute. The Magic Quadrant lists 11 different data center and cloud networking vendors and highlights their hardware and software offerings, their strong suits, and their weaknesses. Gartner describes data center and cloud networking “data center and cloud networking hardware and software for enterprises that procure and manage their own data center networking infrastructures for installation on-premises or in co-location facilities.” recently released the 2020 version of its Data Center and Cloud Networking Magic Quadrant.