Kyndryl inherited the systems big companies cannot switch off. Now the IBM spin-off is trying to turn that unglamorous responsibility into a modern consulting, cloud and AI business.
Backup used to mean making a copy. Commvault is betting the harder, more valuable job is proving an entire business can come back clean - data, identities, applications and cloud infrastructure included.
Arcserve has spent more than four decades preparing for the day a company cannot open its own files. Its latest bet is that lean IT teams want one recovery system - with immutable storage, broader virtualization support and a little AI - more than another sprawling security console.
Top-tier incident response, proactive readiness intelligence, and seamless access to cyber insurance - all in one platform. Delivered at less than 10% of the cost of traditional IR.
Fortisphere is a Sydney-based AI transformation, operations and advisory firm founded in 2024 by former Commvault support leader Eugene Trautwein. It helps businesses turn AI ambition into practical results through advisory, benchmarking, workflow redesign, automation and fractional operating leadership, and runs an innovation lab that incubates its own SaaS products - starting with ResumeUplift.com, a tool that helps jobseekers beat AI resume filters.
Resilience is a New York-based cyber insurance and risk-management company that pairs A-plus rated coverage with software that translates cyber risk into financial terms. Founded in 2016 by veterans of the U.S. military and intelligence communities (originally as Arceo.ai), it operates as a managing general agent for middle-market and large enterprises, combining risk quantification, a Risk Operations Center, and in-house claims and incident response to help organizations see, price, and reduce their most financially damaging cyber exposures.
NetApp is a San Jose-based data infrastructure company that helps enterprises store, manage, protect and move their data across on-premises systems and every major public cloud. Founded in 1992 as Network Appliance, it built its business on the ONTAP data management operating system and today sells all-flash storage arrays, cloud storage services and software that increasingly targets AI and machine-learning workloads. A Fortune 500 company trading on the Nasdaq as NTAP, it reported record fiscal-2026 revenue of roughly $6.93 billion.
Cytactic is a Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity company building an AI-powered Cyber Incident Response Management (CIRM) platform that helps enterprises, boards and governments prepare for, simulate, manage and recover from cyber crises. Founded in 2022 by Dr. Nimrod Kozlovski and Menny Barzilay, it distills lessons from hundreds of real-world incidents into playbooks, decision-support tools, simulations and out-of-band communication for the moment an organization gets breached.
Maxxsure is a Dallas-area cybersecurity company that turns cyber risk into a number executives can actually use. Its flagship product, the M-Score, quantifies an organization's cyber risk on a 0-to-1000 scale by collecting thousands of internal, external, and third-party variables and running them through AI and machine-learning models. Rather than handing boards another vulnerability report, Maxxsure frames risk in financial terms - 'down to the dollar' - so leadership can decide what to remediate, what to accept, and how much cyber insurance they actually need.
Clumio is a cloud-native, serverless backup-as-a-service platform built for AWS workloads. It protects data in Amazon S3, DynamoDB, RDS/Aurora, EC2/EBS and Apache Iceberg lakehouses with air-gapped, immutable backups and near-instant recovery at exabyte scale. Founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneur Poojan Kumar, Clumio raised roughly $261M before being acquired by Commvault in 2024, where its technology now anchors AWS cyber-resilience offerings.
Upfort (formerly Paladin Cyber) is a San Francisco-based platform that unifies turnkey cybersecurity with cyber insurance, making cyber risk easy to manage and simple to insure for small and medium-sized businesses. Its Upfort Shield suite layers AI-driven email and web protection, risk monitoring, and security awareness training, while its insurance arm partners with leading carriers to embed coverage for ransomware, wire fraud, and data breaches - sold through brokers and MGAs rather than direct.
Surefire Cyber is a purpose-built cyber incident response firm that helps insurers, brokers, law firms, and the organizations they cover move from response to resilience. Founded in 2022 by incident response veteran Billy Gouveia and incubated at Forgepoint Capital, the company pairs expert-led responders with an AI-enabled platform that unifies the insurance-driven response lifecycle - from forensic investigation and threat-actor negotiation through restoration, claims coordination, and cyber intelligence - to deliver faster outcomes with consistent quality and transparent, claims-ready reporting.
Cohesity is a Santa Clara-based data security and management company that helps enterprises back up, protect, secure, and recover their data across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments. Founded in 2013 by Mohit Aron, it built a hyperscale platform to consolidate fragmented secondary data, and after merging with Veritas' enterprise data protection business in December 2024 it became the world's largest data protection software provider, serving roughly 13,000 organizations including most of the Fortune 500.
Rubrik is a Palo Alto-based cyber resilience company that helps organizations protect, recover, and secure their data across cloud, on-premises, and SaaS environments. Built on Zero Trust principles, its Rubrik Security Cloud platform combines immutable backups, ransomware detection, and rapid recovery so businesses can keep running through a cyberattack. Founded in 2014 and public on the NYSE since 2024, Rubrik crossed $1 billion in subscription ARR and is pushing into AI-era data security.
CYGNVS is a Silicon Valley SaaS company that runs a guided, out-of-band command center for cyber crisis preparedness and response. When ransomware locks the corporate network, CYGNVS gives security, business and outside counsel a secure space to coordinate, run playbooks, document chain of custody and report to regulators.