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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.
Cloudflare made the middle matter.
A spam trap became a network for protecting websites, running code, and policing AI traffic. The bargain is convenience - and dependence on the company in between.
SAPIE makes the right introduction.
Slovakia has the talent. SAPIE works on the connections - linking companies, researchers and policymakers so good ideas have somewhere to go.
Booz Allen Hamilton takes AI off the grid
A century-old consultancy is putting AI in orbit and buying its way deeper into defense technology. Its real business is making new tools work where the usual assumptions fall apart.
Maximus and the art of getting through
A government promise still needs someone to answer the phone. Maximus built a $5.43 billion business around that inconvenient little detail.
CDW sells the missing piece.
Buying technology is easy. Making it work together is the business CDW has spent four decades learning to sell.
Parsons makes the complicated work
A metro, a missile defense network, a contaminated airfield. Parsons works where separate systems have to behave as one - and its own setbacks show how hard that promise is to keep.
CACI makes the invisible useful.
A company built around a simulation language now works across drone defense, space sensors, and government software. Its big wager: customers will pay more for an outcome than an hour.
Veracode and the art of fixing what you find
Finding a software flaw is easy to celebrate. Getting it fixed is the harder business Veracode has spent two decades learning to sell.
AlgoSec makes the rules make sense
Every application needs permission to talk. AlgoSec helps large organizations understand those conversations, clean up the rules, and change them without stopping the business.
Armis and the machines hiding in plain sight
A hospital counted its connected devices. Armis found roughly twice as many. Inside the cybersecurity company that turned an incomplete inventory into a $7.75 billion acquisition.
Aretum knows where the paperwork goes
A federal contractor built through acquisitions has a revealing idea about AI: start with the people who know why the paperwork gets stuck.
Miles IT and the art of keeping work moving
A paperboard mill, a retiring developer, and a pile of envelopes reveal what this business technology company is really selling: fewer interruptions between an idea and a finished job.
Schellman makes trust show its work.
A customer wants proof. Another wants different proof. Schellman built a business around making those demands fit together - without letting the evidence off the hook.
Futurism Technologies makes the pieces talk.
A manufacturer’s ringing phones reveal the business behind Futurism: connecting the systems, software, and people that growth pulls apart.
Kentro and the art of keeping government running
A federal agency cannot close for a software update. Kentro has built its business around the difficult work of changing the machinery while people keep using it.
System Soft Technologies and the art of getting unstuck
An old freight system. A stalled hiring pipeline. A pile of unused software licenses. System Soft Technologies works where the grand technology plan meets the Tuesday morning backlog.
VikingCloud wants the till to keep ringing.
Cybersecurity gets interesting when the card reader stops working. VikingCloud has built a business around keeping merchants secure, compliant, and open - with payment providers as its route to millions of locations.
Google Cloud Security Wants to Close the Gap
A security alert is only the beginning. Google is assembling the search, intelligence, and response tools that help a team decide what happens next.
Skyhigh Security follows the data
Getting into an app is only half the security problem. Skyhigh Security focuses on what happens next: where sensitive information goes, who uses it, and what leaves with them.
SecurityScorecard: The grade is just the beginning
A letter grade made cyber risk easier to understand. SecurityScorecard’s next challenge is getting thousands of companies to do something about it.
NortonLifeLock put the person inside the perimeter.
Antivirus guarded the machine. NortonLifeLock built a subscription around the person - then became Gen Digital. Its story explains why the next security battle is over your identity.
Blue Mantis makes complexity somebody’s job.
The former catalog reseller now sells the work that follows the purchase: securing systems, untangling cloud bills, and keeping a growing business running.
Xcitium puts the unknown in a box
An unfamiliar file does not need a verdict to become dangerous. Xcitium’s wager: let it run, but keep it away from the things that matter.
GlobalSign and the art of staying trusted
A digital certificate can establish an identity. Keeping that identity trusted, across thousands of renewals, is where GlobalSign earns its keep.
Intuitive.ai and the case for agreeing first
Before AI can give a useful answer, a company has to agree on the question. Intuitive.ai is building a business around that surprisingly difficult task.
Pulse Secure opened the office. Then came the test.
The remote-access company put the workplace behind a login screen. Its rise, sale and security crises reveal what happens when the door to the office becomes software.
FirmGuard gets there before Windows
The overlooked part of a computer starts first. FirmGuard turns BIOS firmware into something IT teams can monitor, update, and use to recover a machine when Windows stops cooperating.
NetSPI wants proof. The hackers are invited.
A security warning is easy to generate. Proving what an attacker can actually do takes more work. NetSPI has built a business around that difference.
UltraViolet Cyber makes the defense learn.
Finding a security hole is only half the job. UltraViolet Cyber connects the people who break in with the people who keep watch - and makes each side teach the other.