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.
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 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.
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 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.