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Blue Flamingo Group and the art of getting people to act
After the Camp Fire, Paradise needed a way to reach a scattered community. Blue Flamingo Group built a communications practice around the difficult distance between receiving a message and doing something with it.
Galaxy Backbone wants Nigeria’s government to stop buying the same IT twice
Built to connect a fragmented public sector, Nigeria’s state-owned technology company now sells cloud, connectivity and a place to keep the country’s data. Its hardest job is turning shared infrastructure into services people actually use.
CTS Built the Cloud Beneath British Law. Then One Outage Changed the Verdict.
For years, CTS sold law firms a persuasive idea: specialist technology, one accountable partner, fewer moving parts. Its rise - and the cyber incident that forced its MSP arm into a sale - is a case study in both the power and the peril of concentration.
Semperis Built a $100 Million Business Around the Day After Your Worst Hack
Most security vendors promise to stop the intruder. Semperis made its name by asking the uglier question: if the keys to the company are already stolen, how fast can you safely turn the business back on?
Druva Bet the Backup Business on a Radical Idea: Delete the Hardware
The company began by selling the same kind of backup software its founders had left behind. Then it rebuilt the product, the pricing and the customer bargain around one stubborn premise: backup infrastructure should be Druva's problem.
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.
Elaine Dimakos and the Quiet Work After the Alarm
At a restoration company, the hardest thing to rebuild is often confidence. Elaine Dimakos has made a career at the point where risk, communication and client care meet.
Roadpost Spent 35 Years Selling the Last Bar of Signal - Then It Bought the Product
The Toronto satellite reseller saw its middleman model getting squeezed, wrapped rugged hardware in software and subscriptions, and fought its way to full ownership of ZOLEO. The useful lesson is not about rockets - it is about owning the layer customers actually touch.
The Restoration Company Betting That Less Demolition Is Better Business
Platinum Pro-Claim Restoration makes money cleaning up chaos. Its sharper idea is that the cheapest, fastest and greenest piece of a rebuild may be the thing you never tear out.
InsiteOne Put Medical Images in the Cloud Before the Cloud Had a Name
The Connecticut company bet on off-site medical-image archiving in 1999, survived two giant owners, then returned with a broader plan: make radiology data portable, resilient and useful without forcing hospitals into another proprietary corner.
The Backup Company That Reads Your Kids' Search History - And 7 Million People Are Fine With It
Vijay Krishna built a boring backup tool, then pointed its machine-learning at student essays and found the kids no one was watching. Here is how a Red Bank, New Jersey company turned SaaS insurance into a safety net for 1,200 school districts.
The 9,000-Person Firm That Runs the Government's Least Glamorous Machinery
It started in 1969 as a fund for inner-city businesses. Today ICF models the power grid, rebuilds towns after storms, and quietly runs some of the federal programs you have never heard of.
Commvault
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
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.
StorONE
StorONE is a New York-based enterprise storage software company founded in 2011 by Gal Naor and Raz Gordon. Its ONE Storage Platform separates storage services from hardware, delivering block, file and object storage from a single, hardware-agnostic engine. By rewriting the storage stack from scratch, StorONE combines high performance, real-time auto-tiering across flash and HDD, immutable-snapshot ransomware recovery and per-drive licensing to help enterprises cut storage costs while running on commodity servers.
Evocative
Evocative is a Los Angeles-based digital infrastructure provider that delivers enterprise-grade colocation, bare metal servers, carrier-neutral network, and managed services. Built largely through acquisition, its footprint spans roughly 20 data centers and dozens of Points of Presence across strategically located North American, European, and Asian metros. Evocative positions itself as a carrier-neutral, edge-ready alternative to the largest colocation operators, giving enterprises and service providers full control over performance, connectivity, and scaling for workloads that increasingly include AI.
Executech
Executech is a managed IT services provider (MSP) based in South Jordan, Utah, that delivers outsourced IT support, cybersecurity, cloud, and compliance services to organizations across the western United States. Founded around 1999 by Eric Montague on a 'People First' philosophy, the company grew from a one-person operation in a garage into one of the region's largest and most-awarded IT outsourcing firms, backed since 2017 by Evergreen Services Group. It supports hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of end users across sectors like healthcare, finance, government, education, and manufacturing.
KLH Consulting
KLH Consulting is a Santa Rosa, California IT firm that has served North Bay and Sonoma County businesses since 1980. It provides managed IT services, cybersecurity, cloud computing, and Microsoft Dynamics ERP implementation, and develops Vintegrate, a winery-specific ERP built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. The company pairs a local help desk and engineering team with vendor certifications to deliver its 'one call, one team, one solution' model to small and mid-sized organizations, including wineries and healthcare providers.
Clumio
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.
Coincover
Coincover is a UK-based digital asset protection company that helps institutions and their customers hold and recover cryptocurrency safely. Founded in 2018 in Cardiff, it pioneered the wallet disaster recovery category, offering encrypted key backup, automated recovery, fraud detection and theft protection that integrate directly into exchanges, custodians, banks and wallet providers. Coincover has protected over 22 million wallets, safeguards 600+ businesses, and works with names like BitGo, Fireblocks, Ledger, Gemini and Ripple.
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.
ProTelesis Corporation
ProTelesis Corporation is a San Diego-based managed services provider (MSP/MSSP) born from the 2019 merger of two California telecom heavyweights - Protel (a leading Mitel Blue dealer) and Xtelesis (a leading Mitel Orange dealer). The company has evolved from a traditional phone-system business into a full-stack technology partner delivering managed IT, cybersecurity, unified communications, cloud, structured cabling, and managed detection and response. With offices across California, the Pacific Northwest, Utah, and Bangalore, it supports thousands of clients and hundreds of thousands of endpoints, with a focus on biotech, defense, and growing small-to-midsize businesses.
RackWare
RackWare builds enterprise-grade software that moves and protects workloads across any cloud, virtual, or physical environment. Its flagship RackWare Management Module (RMM) automates migration, disaster recovery, and backup so organizations can shift to the cloud, recover from outages, and avoid vendor lock-in - all from one policy-driven, agentless platform. Founded in 2009 and based in San Jose, California, RackWare has migrated over a million workloads and protects hundreds of thousands more for customers ranging from Fortune 50 enterprises to SMBs across 60+ countries.
SORINT.lab
SORINT.lab is a multinational, vendor-neutral 'Next Generation System Integrator' founded in Bergamo, Italy in 1985. With roughly 1,500 engineers across 17 offices in Europe, the USA and Africa, it helps over 100 large organizations run and modernize their IT through DevOps, CI/CD, cloud adoption, application modernization, next-generation IT operations and site reliability engineering. The company is a notable open-source contributor (Agola, Stolon, Ercole, Sircles) and runs on a flat, holacracy-style 'Sircles' organizational model.
TeamLogic IT
TeamLogic IT is a North American managed IT services provider that operates as a franchise network of locally owned, nationally backed offices. It delivers managed IT, cybersecurity, cloud, business continuity and IT consulting to small and mid-sized businesses, pairing on-the-ground local owners with enterprise-grade tools, 24/7 monitoring and a virtual-CIO advisory model. Founded in 2004 and owned by Franchise Services, Inc., the brand has grown to roughly 300+ locations and is consistently ranked among the world's top MSPs.
Copia Automation
Copia Automation brings modern software practices - Git-based version control, automated backup, code review, and AI-assisted analysis - to the world of industrial automation. Its platform treats PLC and OT code as a critical asset, giving manufacturers visibility, change tracking, and disaster recovery across multi-vendor factory floors. Founded in New York in 2020 by former Uber engineer Adam Gluck, Copia helps plants protect against downtime, ransomware, and lost institutional knowledge while accelerating how industrial machinery is built and maintained.
Cockroach Labs
Cockroach Labs builds CockroachDB, a distributed SQL database engineered to survive failures the way its namesake insect does. Founded in 2015 by three ex-Google engineers, the company combines the horizontal scalability of NoSQL with the strong consistency and PostgreSQL compatibility of a traditional relational database. CockroachDB powers mission-critical workloads at banks, retailers, gaming platforms, and AI companies that need to stay online through outages, scale across regions, and keep data inside specific jurisdictions for compliance.
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.