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Oracle provides enterprise applications and infrastructure offerings through a variety of flexible IT deployment models, including on-premises, cloud-based, and hybrid. Founded in 1977, Oracle pioneered the first commercial SQL-based relational database management system, which is commonly used by the world’s largest companies for high-volume online transaction processing workloads. Besides databases, Oracle also sells enterprise resource planning platforms and cloud infrastructure that play an increasingly important role in large language model training and inferencing.

Incorporated in 1911, International Business Machines, or IBM, is one of the oldest technology companies in the world. It provides software, IT consulting services, and hardware to help business customers modernize their technology workflows. IBM operates in 175 countries and employs approximately 300,000 people. The company has a robust roster of business partners to service its clients, which includes 95% of all Fortune 500 companies. IBM’s products, including Red Hat, watsonx, and mainframes, handle some of the world’s most important data workloads in areas like finance and retail.

NetApp Inc is a provider of enterprise data management and storage solutions. The company's segments include Hybrid Cloud and Public Cloud. It generates maximum revenue from the Hybrid Cloud segment. The Hybrid Cloud segment offers a portfolio of storage management and infrastructure solutions that help customers recast their traditional data centers with the power of the cloud. This portfolio is designed to operate with public clouds to unlock the potential of hybrid, multi-cloud operations. Hybrid Cloud is composed of software, hardware, and related support, as well as professional and other services. Geographically, the company generates the majority of its revenue from the United States, Canada and Latin America (Americas).

Verisign is an operator of critical infrastructure within the domain name system, or DNS. As the registry for some of the world’s most popular TLDs, .com and .net, Verisign directs DNS resolvers to the appropriate registry where IP addresses are stored. Verisign’s control over its TLDs is regulated by ICANN and the NTIA and are subject to contract renewal every six years. The company generates revenue through annual subscriptions allowing customers to use .com and .net as their TLD of choice for their respective websites.

PT DCI Indonesia Tbk is a data center provider in Indonesia. It provides reliable, well networked, and well-managed cloud and carrier-neutral data center infrastructure services in Indonesia. The company operates in two segments: Colocation services and Others. The services offered by the company include Colocation, Cross Connect, Flexspace, Smarthands, CloudConnect, and DCI Internet Exchange.

Nscale is an AI infrastructure company and global hyperscaler that builds, owns, and operates data centers and high-density GPU clusters. The neocloud startup integrates everything from renewable power generation to hardware and orchestration software to support AI training, fine-tuning, and inference workloads for enterprises and governments. Unlike traditional cloud providers, Nscale builds and operates its own data centers in regions with abundant, low-cost renewable energy (e.g., hydropower in Norway, renewables in Texas). In West Virginia, the company even owns behind-the-meter natural gas power plants to insulate operations from local grid fluctuations.

Oracle Corp Japan is an information technology company. Its products cover database management, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, data warehousing, customer relationship management, middleware, business intelligence, and application products. The firm provides cloud solutions, business solutions, industry solutions, mobile solutions, technology solutions and consulting, financing, training, cloud, and others. The company operates through three reportable segments: Cloud & License, Hardware Systems, and Services.

Applied Digital Corp is a U.S. based designer, developer, owner, and operator of large-scale, purpose-built data centers engineered to support high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and other accelerated-compute applications. It design, build, and operate high-performance, sustainably engineered data centers which it refer to as AI factories and deliver that capacity to investment-grade hyper scalers and other compute customers under long-term lease and hosting arrangements. The company has two segments Data Center Hosting Business, and HPC Hosting Business. The company generates majority of revenue from Data Center Hosting Business segment. Its solutions are Digital Infrastructure, and AI Factories.

GDS Holdings started as an IT service provider in 2001 then moved to the data center business with its first self-developed data center opening in 2010. The company now develops and operates data centers in China and also builds, operates and transfers data centers for other clients. It offers colocation and managed services and mainly targets hyperscale cloud service customers who take large areas of its data centers or even whole data centers under long-term contracts. Its data centers are located predominantly in and around the Tier 1 cities in China and it has also started an expanding into Southeast Asia via the now 38% owned DayOne. GDS listed on the Nasdaq in 2016 and completed a secondary listing in Hong Kong in 2020.

NextDC operates 17 data centers in Australian cities with a focus on colocation and interconnection between enterprises, global cloud, and ICT providers and telecommunication networks. It has another 2 data centers in Asia and 13 data centers in development or planning stage in Australia, Asia and New Zealand. NextDC provides physical space, cooling, power and security services and offers optional technical and project management support. The company’s tenants store their servers within the data center and can connect to each other, to and between global public cloud providers and telecommunication network providers via physical and virtual connections. Colocation services allow enterprises to enhance security of data transmission and reduce latency.

Wangsu Science & Technology Co Ltd is a China-based company engaged in the provision of telecommunication value-added services. It is mainly engaged in the provision of a content delivery network (CDN) services, Internet data center (IDC) services, and cloud service integrated solutions. The company operates its business in domestic and overseas markets.

Cato Networks is a Tel Aviv-headquartered provider of a cloud-native SASE platform combining SD-WAN, global private backbone, and security services like firewall-as-a-service, secure web gateway, zero-trust access, and XDR. It connects branches, data centers, remote users, and clouds via multiple on-ramps for enterprises worldwide.

Yotta Infrastructure is a Mumbai-headquartered data center operator, part of the Hiranandani Group, managing India's largest hyperscale parks in Greater Noida and Panvel. Launched in 2021, the company offers colocation, cloud services via Yotta D1, managed security, and connectivity with capacities exceeding 500 MW. It hosts clients like Google Cloud and NVIDIA, achieving Tier 3+ certifications. Yotta Infrastructure spans 4 million square feet, supporting AI workloads and edge computing across India with fiber connectivity to Mumbai financial hubs.

Vultr is a Miami-headquartered cloud infrastructure platform offering NVIDIA GPUs, AMD CPUs, and GPUs in 32 global regions. Founded in 2014, it provides bare metal servers, cloud compute, managed Kubernetes, databases, storage, and networking services. Recognized by IDC as a Major Contender in the 2025 Public Cloud MarketScape, Vultr supports AI workloads for enterprises via hourly billing and a marketplace of integrated partners.

Beijing Sinnet Technology Co Ltd is a professional data center and cloud computing service provider in China. The company's main business is Internet data center services (IDC and its value-added services), cloud computing services, Internet broadband access services (ISP) and other Internet integrated services.

Megaport is one of the world’s largest software-defined network service providers, enabling around 3,000 enterprise customers to connect to over 1000 data centers throughout the world. Megaport’s services mostly revolve around enabling enterprises to connect to cloud service providers, like Amazon Web Services, but it also offers services to enable businesses to connect across multiple data centers and to internet exchanges.

Selectel is a St. Petersburg-headquartered provider of cloud and hosting services from six Tier-III data centers across Russia, including locations in Moscow and Novosibirsk. It supplies dedicated servers, colocation racks, virtual private servers, and public cloud infrastructure with a 100% uptime service level agreement. Additional offerings encompass DDoS mitigation, content delivery networks, and a proprietary fiber-optic backbone network spanning 10,000 kilometers. Founded in 2006, Selectel serves over 7,000 clients including Yandex and Kaspersky Lab, generating annual revenues exceeding $100 million.

Lambda is a provider of GPU-accelerated cloud and hardware solutions for AI workloads including model training, fine-tuning, inference, and deployment. Its platform offers on-demand NVIDIA A100 and H100 GPU instances, multi-node clusters scaling to thousands of GPUs, pre-configured workstations with RTX GPUs, and a software stack integrating PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Kubernetes. Founded in 2012, the San Francisco-headquartered company serves over 5,000 AI teams worldwide, including researchers from OpenAI and Meta, and delivers clusters with up to 99.9% uptime for enterprise-scale ML pipelines.