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Cumulus Networks Recognized as a Visionary in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center NetworkingCumulus Networks, the leader in bringing web-scale networking to enterprise cloud, today announced Gartner (News - Alert) has positioned it in the Visionaries quadrant of the July 2017 Gartner Quadrant for Data Center Networking. Cumulus Networks was one of thirteen vendors evaluated for the 2017 report and was assessed for its completeness of vision and ability to execute. With their open networking platform Cumulus Linux, Cumulus Networks helps organizations of all sizes adopt web-scale technologies to reach the speed and agility of web-scale giants. According to 2016 Gartner research, by 2020, 40% of global enterprise CIOs will have initiated a corporate web-scale IT initiative, which is a significant increase from today's fewer than 5%.1 Gartner defines a Visionary company as having demonstrated an ability to increase the features in its offering to provide a unique and differentiated approach to the market. A Visionary has innovated in one or more of the key areas of data center infrastructure, such as management (including virtualization), security (including policy enforcement), SDN and operational efficiency, as well as cost reductions.2 "We believe our position in the Visionaries quadrant this year, our first-ever placement in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, and market momentum for an open, disaggregated solution is validation of our founding belief that companies need to embrace web-scale architectures," said Josh Leslie, CEO of Cumulus Networks. "While we now have more than 750 customers running Cumulus Linux, our work has only just begun - we're going to continue creating new, innovative solutions like NetQ that build upon our foundation, Cumulus Linux, to give more businesses the tools they need to design, build and operate their infrastructure the web-scale networking way." "There is a growing willingness to move away from proprietary solutions. Our end-user survey (n = 83) indicated that 42% of clients consider open standards and multivendor interoperability support a mandatory requirement, 34% consider it very important, and 20% consider it somewhat important, so openness is a relevant buying criterion for 96% of the end users... Disaggregation of hardware and software can be seen as a first step toward more vendor independence. Interest and adoption of white-/brite-box switching has increased significantly within hyperscale data centers over the past several quarters, and we expect it to reach 22% of the total data center Ethernet switch market by 2020… As a consequence, we have seen enterprise adoption of brite box (the most successful delivery model in this mrket segment) grow, and we estimate about 1,000 paying enterprise customers as of March 2017. ." Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Data Center Networking, 2017 This Gartner recognition comes amidst rapid momentum for Cumulus Networks over the past year. The company saw more than 200%+ bookings growth fueled by high profile customer wins, including more than one-third of the Fortune 50. Cumulus Networks has achieved several milestones such as:
"Cumulus Networks had the foresight to know that the world was ready for an open network OS, unlike other well known competitors who are still struggling to catch up. The level of integration with third party systems is phenomenal because it's just Linux. Follow the Rocket Turtle, take the red pill." Joshua Brown, Healthcare Realty Trust Inc. For access to the full report, please visit 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Networking. Disclaimer: Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in our research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. About Cumulus Networks Cumulus Networks is leading the transformation of bringing web-scale networking to enterprise cloud. As the only systems solution that fully unlocks the vertical network stacks of the modern data center, Cumulus Linux allows companies of all sizes to affordably build and efficiently operate their networks just like the world's largest data centers. By allowing operators to use standard hardware components, Cumulus Networks offers unprecedented operational speed and agility, at the industry's most competitive cost. Cumulus Networks has received venture funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Sequoia Capital (News - Alert), Peter Wagner and four of the original VMware founders. For more information visit cumulusnetworks.com or follow @cumulusnetworks. CUMULUS, the Cumulus Logo, CUMULUS NETWORKS, and the Rocket Turtle Logo (the "Marks") are trademarks and service marks of Cumulus Networks, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. You are not permitted to use the Marks without the prior written consent of Cumulus Networks. The registered trademark Linux® is used pursuant to a sublicense from LMI, the exclusive licensee of Linus Torvalds, owner of the mark on a worldwide basis.
1 Gartner, Bringing Web-Scale Networking Concepts to Your
Data Center, Joe Skorupa, Andrew Lerner, November 22, 2016
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