The report credits VMware's top position again for 2020 to its dedication to keep up with changing customer needs and new industry demands. According to the report, VMware's purchase of SaltStack helped round out its industry-leading VMware vRealize Automation platform with SaltStack's open source event-driven configuration management capabilities. VMware also gained SaltStack's SecOps functionalities for automating security compliance and vulnerability remediation. Additionally, IDC commends VMware for quickly integrating these capabilities as vRealize Automation SaltStack Config into the latest releases of vRealize Automation and vRealize Automation Cloud.