hybrid-cloud
(59)
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.
The Bank Had 3,000 Applications. The Shortcut Was a Different Floor.
At Intesa Sanpaolo, a move to microservices exposed a less glamorous problem: the machinery beneath Kubernetes. Diamanti built a business around fixing that layer - storage, networking and the business of keeping applications alive.
The Map Before the Move: CloudSphere and the Hidden Life of Enterprise Software
A railway with 5,021 virtual machines did not chiefly need another cloud. It needed to know which applications would follow each other there. CloudSphere sells that map.
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.
EfficientIP wants to give the network team its afternoon back
At Société Générale, a two-hour application-switching task fell to ten minutes. Behind that small victory sits a French software company selling control over the network services almost nobody notices until they stop working.
FNTS keeps the mainframe in the picture
The Omaha IT provider has built a business around systems that enterprises cannot casually replace. Its pitch: change the way they run before deciding what to throw away.
Velocix and the business of keeping the match on
A live audience arrives all at once. Velocix helps television operators handle the rush with a mix of private infrastructure, cloud capacity and software that keeps an eye on the bill.
Red Hat Made Free Software Worth $34 Billion. The Product Was Trust.
Its code could be copied. Its confidence could not. Red Hat built a business by packaging the unruly speed of open source into software that banks, governments and airlines can run without holding their breath.
Boomi Bet the Enterprise Would Become a Mess. Now It Wants to Wire the AI Age.
A startup above a Pennsylvania pizza shop survived the integration wars by rebuilding itself for SaaS. Twenty-six years later, Boomi is betting that the same plumbing can keep enterprise AI from becoming another expensive island.
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.
Solutions II Learned the Expensive Value of Saying No - Then Built a Security Business Around It
The Colorado IT provider survived a culture-clash acquisition, turned security into a major line of business, and now sells a practical idea: the data center is no longer a place. It is a promise that critical systems keep working.
Starburst Bet $414 Million That Your Data Should Stay Put
The Boston data company crossed $100 million in recurring revenue by challenging a lucrative industry habit: moving every last byte into one central warehouse. Its pitch is simpler - bring the query to the data.
The Khan Brothers Sold the Network Once. Then They Rebuilt It for the Cloud.
Alkira turned the least cloud-like part of cloud computing - the network - into an on-demand service. Eight years, $176 million in funding and one $475 million acquisition later, its biggest test is whether software and fiber can finally behave like one product.
Redwood Software Makes the Software Nobody Notices - Until It Stops
The 33-year-old automation company has turned midnight batch jobs, SAP dependencies and financial-close checklists into a sizable software portfolio. Its pitch is simple: the best critical process is the one your staff never has to rescue.
Tufin’s Bet: The Firewall Is Fine. The Policy Sprawl Is the Problem.
Big companies do not have one firewall; they have a small parliament of them. Tufin built the policy layer that gets Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point, cloud controls and SASE tools to follow the same rules.
Infoblox Turned the Internet’s Boring Plumbing Into a Security Alarm
The company made a business out of the chores nobody notices until the network breaks. Now it is betting that DNS can tell security teams what is about to go wrong - before another tool raises the alarm.
Magic Software spent 43 years making old systems talk - then joined a bigger machine
The Israeli software veteran outlasted several computing eras by connecting what companies already owned. Its products carry the story, but services pay most of the bills - and a 2026 merger gives that model a larger engine.
FireMon Built a Business Cleaning Up the Firewall Rules Nobody Wants to Touch
Every enterprise wants zero trust. First, someone has to explain the 10-year-old firewall rule labeled “temporary.” FireMon sells the control plane for that unglamorous, expensive job.
Itential Wants AI to Run the Network - Without Letting It Freelance
The Atlanta software company spent a decade turning scattered scripts into governed workflows. Now it is making the same bargain with AI: you can think on your feet, but you still need a change ticket.
Scality Bet Against the Storage Tax - Now AI Is Making the Bet Look Timely
For 17 years, Scality has sold a stubborn idea: the valuable part of storage should be software, while the hardware underneath stays replaceable. Ransomware, sovereignty rules and GPU-hungry AI have made that once-technical argument a boardroom concern.
The 47-Year-Old Bet That Tape Would Outlive the Cloud
Spectra Logic built a durable business around an unfashionable truth: most data does not need to be instantly online, but some of it must survive for decades. Its answer combines robotic tape libraries, object interfaces and archive software - with economics that become persuasive at petabyte scale.
Cloudian Survived a Telco Crash. Now It Wants to Feed AI Without Shipping Your Data Away
Cloudian turned the wreckage of a mobile-messaging company into an enterprise storage business. Its newest wager is that the AI race will be won as much in the data room as in the GPU rack.
Buildkite Put the Cloud in Charge - Then Refused to Put Your Code There
The Australian developer-tools company won demanding engineering teams with a split-the-stack model: Buildkite coordinates the work, while customers choose where it runs. Now it is trying to turn that architectural compromise into a broader software-delivery platform.
The Cantu Brothers Sold Used Servers From a Basement. Now They Wire the Cloud for the FIFA World Cup.
For 29 years, two brothers from Bellevue have made a business out of the boring middle - the wiring, racking, migrating, and securing that every enterprise needs and few can do end to end.
Cloudera Is Turning Its Hadoop Inheritance Into an AI Anywhere Bet
The company that helped commercialize Hadoop is betting its next act on a stubborn enterprise reality: sensitive data rarely lives in one cloud. Cloudera now wants to be the governed layer that lets analytics and AI travel to the data, wherever it sits.
Everpure Wants to Turn the Storage Room Into an AI Control Room
Pure Storage changed its name, but the more consequential move is underneath the sign: a flash-storage pioneer is trying to make the data layer itself searchable, governed and ready for AI.
The 30-Year-Old Phone Company That Quietly Became an AI-Era IT Shop
It started as the technology arm of a regional Bell telephone company. Three decades and a private-equity buyout later, CBTS runs cloud, security, and communications for 3,000-plus businesses - and it wants to be the partner that makes its clients look good.
Kyndryl
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.
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.
Digital Realty
The company you have probably never heard of owns the buildings your favorite apps actually live in. Here is how a REIT born from bankruptcy auctions became the landlord of the AI boom.