In this edition of CIO Review, we bring to you “The 20 Most Promising Data Center Solutions Providers of 2015,” featuring the best solution and service providers offering tools and services available on the Data Center platform. The companies listed here showcase extensive business knowledge and innovative strategies combined with talent base across locations.

1. | |JULY 2014
5CIOReview| |JULY 2014
4CIOReview
M
odern day enterprises are veering towards
cloud, IoT and virtual environments to store
and disseminate enormous data volumes
regardless of their impact on critical infrastructure
performance. With the advent of these trends, Data
centers are manifesting commendable growth in the
areas of integrated systems, network facilities and
security needs of the organizations. These prevalent
technologies of today have triggered the demand for
colocation services, automation, redundancy, network
uptime, and high-performance computing from the
data center solution providers.
Data center companies have exhibited a high level
of resilience and adapted to the changing power and
cooling requirements of organizations. In order to
enhance enterprise agility, improve network efficiency,
and maintain high standards of security, several
innovative players in the industry are delivering cutting-
edge solutions that ensure visibility, cost savings and
automation in the networks.
This issue showcases data center companies
that havea host of products aimed at driving such
goals by eliminating the challenges that arise during
integration and configuration operations, optimization
routines, and installation. However, many CIOs find
it extremely challenging to navigate into the complex
and fragmented data center landscape when looking for
the right service provider to aid them with consulting,
implementation, and support.
In this edition of CIO Review, we bring to you “The
20 Most Promising Data Center Solutions Providers of
2015,” featuring the best solution and service providers
offering tools and services available on the Data
Center platform. The companies listed here showcase
extensive business knowledge and innovative strategies
combined with talent base across locations.
A distinguished panel comprising of CEOs, CIOs,
CMOs, VCs, analysts and CIO Review editorial board
has selected the top players from over three hundred
companies. The listing provides a look into how these
solutions work in the real world, so that you can gain a
comprehensive understanding of what technologies are
available, which are right for you, and how they shape
up against the competition.
CIOREVIEW.COMMAY 27 - 2015DATA CENTER SPECIAL
T h e N a v i g a t o r f o r E n t e r p r i s e S o l u t i o n s
20 Most Promising Data Center Solution Providers 2015
Company:
Evolven
Description:
A technology company that provides
IT Operations Analytics solutions for
enterprise businesses.
Key Person:
Sasha Gilenson,
CEO & Co-founder
Website:
www.evolven.com
Evolven
recognized by magazine as
Pradeep Shankar
An annual listing of 20 companies that are in the forefront of tackling
Data Center Technology challenges and impacting the marketplace.
Editor-in-Chief
| |May 2015
36CIOReview
D
uring a 13 year tenure at
Mercury (acquired by HP),
Sasha Gilenson, current CEO
of Evolven, saw the way enterprises
were increasingly facing issues
with critical business systems either
underperforming or failing. He
witnessed the ways in which gaps in
IT Operations created problems, and
looked at it from a new perspective.
Just as Google came and revolutionized
the world of Internet search, Sasha
envisioned a similar revolutionary
approach for handling the abundant
data that IT teams faced in maintaining
performance and availability of their
business operations. “Evolven applies
a new IT Operations Analytics (ITOA)
approach to the critical IT operations
challenges in on-premise and hybrid
cloud environments, turning the big
data generated by operations of IT
environments into actionable insights,”
says Gilenson.
The Evolven approach addresses IT
pain points with a Blended Analytics
solution that extracts insights and
draws intelligent correlations from
the various types of data produced
by multiple systems across IT silos.
Evolven provides key IT decision
makers with the ability to see more
than the individual parts and finally
get the whole picture, by blending data
from such varied sources as log files,
changes to configuration, network
traffic, performance metrics, and alerts
from applications and other types of
data through a prism of change.
Evolven’s advanced analytics
applies machine learning to process
and cross-correlate millions of data
points in near real-time, identifying
unknown and advanced threats across
petabytes of machine data. Evolven’s
Blended Analytics analyzes connected
data to identify abnormal conditions
or gradual trends. Imbued with cross-
correlation and statistical anomaly
detection, Evolven IT Operations
Analytics Engine can send timely alerts
when anomalies appear, and pinpoint
strange behavior in environments
before a full-fledged incident occurs.
IT specialists can realize why
environments are not operating as
expected, and take the necessary steps
to resolve issues before their users are
impacted.
In 2012, VSE, a major defense
contractor, underwent significant
changes when it moved its offices and
built a brand new state-of-the-art, fully
virtualized data center. As the servers
were virtualized and copied to the new
data center, VSE not only needed to
verify that no data was lost during the
transition, but also faced major risks to
environment stability. VSE ultimately
selected Evolven’s IT Operations
Analytics. “It took just minutes for us to
learn the basic functionalities of it. There
were no special training requirements,
and it is very easy to use. We were able
to roll it out in a day," says VSE's Vice
President and CIO, Dave Chivers.
While there are many players
in the market for IT management
systems, each of them strongly believe
that the answer to an organization's
problems can be found only in the
area that their product examines. Few
provide a comprehensive look at the
IT environment, considering a variety
of data sources, and make it possible
for IT staff to find the root cause of
performance anomalies.
Moving forward, Evolven aims to
expand its services and global footprint.
With Evolven, the industry can apply
greater intelligence to the data center
and cloud. “Blended Analytics will
drive this intelligence, allowing us
to raise the level of IT automation
to include self-healing and self-
administration of environments. Within
5 to 10 years, we will see multiple
vertical analytics that will merge into
a unified analytics layer to serve as the
‘brain’ of automated IT environments.
As a pioneer and innovator of the ITOA
space, our goal is to provide this brain,”
concludes Gilenson.
Evolven Software
Blended Analytics – Breaking the Silos
Evolven's IT Operations
Analytics gives enterprises
the ability to blend data
from multiple sources
as varied as system
logs, network traffic,
monitoring tools, and
configurations
Sasha Gilenson

2. | |JULY 2014
5CIOReview| |JULY 2014
4CIOReview
M
odern day enterprises are veering towards
cloud, IoT and virtual environments to store
and disseminate enormous data volumes
regardless of their impact on critical infrastructure
performance. With the advent of these trends, Data
centers are manifesting commendable growth in the
areas of integrated systems, network facilities and
security needs of the organizations. These prevalent
technologies of today have triggered the demand for
colocation services, automation, redundancy, network
uptime, and high-performance computing from the
data center solution providers.
Data center companies have exhibited a high level
of resilience and adapted to the changing power and
cooling requirements of organizations. In order to
enhance enterprise agility, improve network efficiency,
and maintain high standards of security, several
innovative players in the industry are delivering cutting-
edge solutions that ensure visibility, cost savings and
automation in the networks.
This issue showcases data center companies
that havea host of products aimed at driving such
goals by eliminating the challenges that arise during
integration and configuration operations, optimization
routines, and installation. However, many CIOs find
it extremely challenging to navigate into the complex
and fragmented data center landscape when looking for
the right service provider to aid them with consulting,
implementation, and support.
In this edition of CIO Review, we bring to you “The
20 Most Promising Data Center Solutions Providers of
2015,” featuring the best solution and service providers
offering tools and services available on the Data
Center platform. The companies listed here showcase
extensive business knowledge and innovative strategies
combined with talent base across locations.
A distinguished panel comprising of CEOs, CIOs,
CMOs, VCs, analysts and CIO Review editorial board
has selected the top players from over three hundred
companies. The listing provides a look into how these
solutions work in the real world, so that you can gain a
comprehensive understanding of what technologies are
available, which are right for you, and how they shape
up against the competition.
CIOREVIEW.COMMAY 27 - 2015DATA CENTER SPECIAL
T h e N a v i g a t o r f o r E n t e r p r i s e S o l u t i o n s
20 Most Promising Data Center Solution Providers 2015
Company:
Evolven
Description:
A technology company that provides
IT Operations Analytics solutions for
enterprise businesses.
Key Person:
Sasha Gilenson,
CEO & Co-founder
Website:
www.evolven.com
Evolven
recognized by magazine as
Pradeep Shankar
An annual listing of 20 companies that are in the forefront of tackling
Data Center Technology challenges and impacting the marketplace.
Editor-in-Chief
| |May 2015
36CIOReview
D
uring a 13 year tenure at
Mercury (acquired by HP),
Sasha Gilenson, current CEO
of Evolven, saw the way enterprises
were increasingly facing issues
with critical business systems either
underperforming or failing. He
witnessed the ways in which gaps in
IT Operations created problems, and
looked at it from a new perspective.
Just as Google came and revolutionized
the world of Internet search, Sasha
envisioned a similar revolutionary
approach for handling the abundant
data that IT teams faced in maintaining
performance and availability of their
business operations. “Evolven applies
a new IT Operations Analytics (ITOA)
approach to the critical IT operations
challenges in on-premise and hybrid
cloud environments, turning the big
data generated by operations of IT
environments into actionable insights,”
says Gilenson.
The Evolven approach addresses IT
pain points with a Blended Analytics
solution that extracts insights and
draws intelligent correlations from
the various types of data produced
by multiple systems across IT silos.
Evolven provides key IT decision
makers with the ability to see more
than the individual parts and finally
get the whole picture, by blending data
from such varied sources as log files,
changes to configuration, network
traffic, performance metrics, and alerts
from applications and other types of
data through a prism of change.
Evolven’s advanced analytics
applies machine learning to process
and cross-correlate millions of data
points in near real-time, identifying
unknown and advanced threats across
petabytes of machine data. Evolven’s
Blended Analytics analyzes connected
data to identify abnormal conditions
or gradual trends. Imbued with cross-
correlation and statistical anomaly
detection, Evolven IT Operations
Analytics Engine can send timely alerts
when anomalies appear, and pinpoint
strange behavior in environments
before a full-fledged incident occurs.
IT specialists can realize why
environments are not operating as
expected, and take the necessary steps
to resolve issues before their users are
impacted.
In 2012, VSE, a major defense
contractor, underwent significant
changes when it moved its offices and
built a brand new state-of-the-art, fully
virtualized data center. As the servers
were virtualized and copied to the new
data center, VSE not only needed to
verify that no data was lost during the
transition, but also faced major risks to
environment stability. VSE ultimately
selected Evolven’s IT Operations
Analytics. “It took just minutes for us to
learn the basic functionalities of it. There
were no special training requirements,
and it is very easy to use. We were able
to roll it out in a day," says VSE's Vice
President and CIO, Dave Chivers.
While there are many players
in the market for IT management
systems, each of them strongly believe
that the answer to an organization's
problems can be found only in the
area that their product examines. Few
provide a comprehensive look at the
IT environment, considering a variety
of data sources, and make it possible
for IT staff to find the root cause of
performance anomalies.
Moving forward, Evolven aims to
expand its services and global footprint.
With Evolven, the industry can apply
greater intelligence to the data center
and cloud. “Blended Analytics will
drive this intelligence, allowing us
to raise the level of IT automation
to include self-healing and self-
administration of environments. Within
5 to 10 years, we will see multiple
vertical analytics that will merge into
a unified analytics layer to serve as the
‘brain’ of automated IT environments.
As a pioneer and innovator of the ITOA
space, our goal is to provide this brain,”
concludes Gilenson.
Evolven Software
Blended Analytics – Breaking the Silos
Evolven's IT Operations
Analytics gives enterprises
the ability to blend data
from multiple sources
as varied as system
logs, network traffic,
monitoring tools, and
configurations
Sasha Gilenson