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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.
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.
Vijay Krishna Built a Career Around the Second Copy
Before cloud backup became an industry, Vijay Krishna was selling storage in Japan. Now his company protects the working memory inside Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and a widening shelf of SaaS apps.
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.
AvePoint Spent 25 Years Guarding Your Files. Now It Wants to Guard Your AI.
Two engineers coded their first product in a public library. A SPAC deal, $419 million in revenue and 28,000 customers later, AvePoint is wagering that the next great data problem is the AI you just turned on.
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.