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Empires makes a habit of building worlds
A family-made creature collector sits at the heart of this Seattle software studio. Beneath the animal spirits is a practical lesson in making a small team’s work go further.
Rackspace Technology and the business of staying on call
The cloud made computing easier to buy. Rackspace built a business around the part that stayed difficult: making it work, every day.
AllCloud makes the cloud earn its keep
Buying cloud technology is easy. AllCloud takes on the harder job: connecting AWS, Salesforce, data, and AI to the work a business actually needs to finish.
CyberTech makes the map match the business
A water pipe can have two identities: one on a map, another in an enterprise database. CyberTech builds the connections that help utilities, cities and transit agencies agree on what is actually there.
Innovative Solutions makes AI earn its keep.
A Rochester IT business found its next act in the chores nobody wants: sorting surveys, checking claims, and turning meetings into finished work. Its own AI bill supplied the reality check.
Lightedge and the art of keeping things running
A leaking data center. A tomato processor with patchy connectivity. Lightedge’s hybrid cloud business starts where the neat cloud pitch meets the messy business of staying open.
AWS Elemental makes play possible.
One video. A thousand ways to watch. Inside the AWS business that turns pictures into streams - and makes the machinery disappear.
Eficens DiscoverCloud wants your cloud bill to make sense.
A cloud bill can tell you what you spent. DiscoverCloud pairs its own tools with engineers who help decide what to change - and then help change it.
ERPA makes the old systems move.
The hard part of enterprise technology comes after you buy it. ERPA has built a business around keeping PeopleSoft, Workday and the cloud useful long after the launch party.
Trantor makes the handoff disappear
The hard part of enterprise software often begins after launch. Trantor sells the engineering teams, operating knowledge, and increasingly AI-assisted workflows that keep the work moving.
DoiT makes the cloud bill somebody’s business
A cheaper server is only the beginning. DoiT pairs cloud-cost software with engineers to answer the harder question: what does it actually cost to serve a customer?
Data Intensity makes the cloud decision less cloudy
For companies running Oracle, the expensive question is what to keep, what to move, and who will answer when it breaks. Data Intensity has built a business around all three.
AWS Startup Loft Accelerator: Ten weeks, no equity, fewer wrong turns
A young company can have working code and still have no working business. AWS Startup Loft Accelerator pairs cloud expertise with commercial advice - and lets founders choose the help they actually need.
North makes the cloud cheaper without marrying the bill
Cloud discounts usually demand a prediction about the next three years. North built a business around a more human admission: you might change your mind.
Provectus puts AI where the work gets stuck
A pastry order, a hundred-page risk report, a support ticket: Provectus builds AI around the awkward business chores that hold everything else up. Its proposition is a working system, with the keys handed to the customer.
Spektra makes a business of the cloud’s unfinished chores
A cloud account is easy to open. A classroom, a marketplace deal, and a correct invoice are harder to run. Spektra sells the machinery that makes those promises practical.
Astadia: Change the machine. Keep the business.
The software that runs a business often knows more than its documentation admits. Astadia moves that accumulated knowledge into new technology, then tests whether it still behaves like the original.
Teqfocus and the expensive art of making systems talk
The enterprise AI boom has a paperwork problem. Teqfocus sells the connections, controls and workflow repairs that help a clever demo become useful work.
Mi-Case and the Trouble with Thirteen Systems
Indiana replaced 13 legacy corrections systems in 27 months. Mi-Case’s story starts with the part of a software project nobody puts on the poster: moving the old records.
Virtual Service Operations and the virtue of boring IT
A six-minute data load, a $50 million deskside contract, and a workforce built around military veterans. VSO makes its case in the places where grand cloud promises meet ordinary working days.
The Cloud Was Easy to Enter. The Bill Was Harder to Leave.
Cloud Technology Partners taught big companies how to move applications to the cloud, then discovered the real work began when the meter started running. HPE bought that expertise in 2017, even as its customers were moving workloads toward other companies' servers.
Adaptavist sells the work that comes after the software
Buying Jira is the easy part. Adaptavist has built a business around the migrations, integrations and human habits that determine whether enterprise software earns its keep.
Cloudreach and the art of moving less to the cloud
At Kurtosys, Cloudreach identified 39 applications to move and 19 to retire. That tells you more about this cloud consultancy than a wall of partner badges ever could.
The 3% Email Failure That Explains Echoworx's Quiet Enterprise Bet
Most security software asks people to change. Echoworx built its business around changing the route instead - and one insurer's 3% TLS gap shows why that matters.
THREAD Moved the Clinical Trial to the Patient's Kitchen Table
For decades a clinical trial meant a patient driving to a site. THREAD bet the visit could come to them instead - and then bought four companies to prove it.
When the Cloud Goes Down, Parametrix Cuts the Check in Days
A New York insurtech wrote a policy that pays out automatically when AWS, Azure or Google Cloud stops working. Then, on one July morning, CrowdStrike proved the whole thesis was worth billions.
The Startup That Turns Drone Photos of Cell Towers Into Money
Anne Zink built a company that lets you inspect a 300-foot cell tower without climbing it. The trick isn't the drone - it's what happens to the pictures after they land.
The Layer Between Your Database and the Cloud Bill
Kaminario spent a decade selling flash arrays. Then it threw out the hardware, kept the software, and bet the company on a single idea: that the cloud is fast enough for anything - if you put the right layer in front of it.
Amazon
From a garage bookstore in 1994 to a $200 billion quarter: how Amazon turned customer obsession into the operating system of modern commerce, computing, and now AI.
Kion
Kion is a Columbia, Maryland software company that builds a self-hosted FinOps+ platform for managing cloud operations across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud. Founded in 2018 as cloudtamer.io and rebranded as Kion in 2021, the company combines cloud financial management, policy-based governance, and continuous compliance into a single platform that runs inside a customer's own cloud environment. Its software is used by commercial, higher-education, and government organizations - including NASA, the CDC, Verizon, and Indeed - to control cloud spend, enforce guardrails, and automate account provisioning through retirement.