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The Company Behind the Invisible Show
At Las Vegas’s Sphere, the spectacle is all pixels. Behind it sits a more prosaic talent: moving vast amounts of data without making the audience wait. Hitachi Vantara has built a business around that invisible obligation.
Peter Haendler and the Fine Art of Making Failure Brief
A career that began close to the help desk now sits inside a stubborn question in computing: when systems fail, how much work disappears - and how quickly can people begin again?
Odaseva Bet That Salesforce's Biggest Customers Needed More Than a Backup Button
A request from Schneider Electric became a 12-petabyte data platform. Now Odaseva is trying to turn the least glamorous layer of Salesforce - backup - into the control plane for resilience, compliance and AI.
CrashPlan Killed Its Consumer Darling. Now It Wants to Back Up the Enterprise.
The backup app that once abandoned home users has returned as a broader enterprise safety net. Its second act is less about saving vacation photos and more about restoring research, email, and business continuity before a bad day becomes a board meeting.
The $15 Billion Backup Company That Wants to Make AI Trustworthy
Veeam turned the unglamorous work of backup into a $15 billion enterprise. Now it is betting $1.725 billion that the same customers will trust it to govern the data feeding their AI.
DataCore’s 28-Year Bet: Your Storage Hardware Isn’t the Product - Control Is
DataCore built a business by telling IT teams to keep the expensive storage they already own. Now, after acquisitions and a Kubernetes push, it is trying to make the same anti-lock-in argument from the data center to the edge.
Bharath Ram Has Spent 35 Years Making New Technology Make Business Sense
From opening a two-person encryption office in Tokyo to shaping enterprise data strategy in the AI era, Bharath Ram's career is a study in translating hard technology into partnerships, markets and durable value.
Panzura
Panzura is an enterprise hybrid cloud data management company whose flagship CloudFS turns object storage into a single, global file system - letting distributed teams edit the same files across continents as if they were sitting in the same office. Paired with its Symphony data services platform and the newer Nexus AI connector, Panzura consolidates sprawling unstructured data, defends it against ransomware with immutable storage, and is now positioning that data to feed enterprise AI tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Cohesity
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
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.
Chris Babel
Chris Babel is the Chief Executive Officer of Arcserve, an Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based data protection and cyber resilience company serving over 235,000 customers worldwide. With more than two decades navigating the intersection of security, privacy, and enterprise technology, Babel brought a rare cross-disciplinary resume to Arcserve in May 2024: he led TrustArc as CEO for over a decade, transforming a browser-padlock certification company into a global privacy compliance platform, and before that spent years at VeriSign running authentication services across 150-plus countries. His mandate at Arcserve is to rebuild partner trust, simplify a sprawling product catalog, and position the company as the go-to data resilience solution for SMBs and mid-market enterprises facing relentless ransomware threats.