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VAST Data is a New York-headquartered software-defined storage provider powering AI workloads with its exabyte-scale platform across flash, HDD, and cloud tiers. Launched in 2019, it unifies block, file, and object protocols with hardware-agnostic architecture, serving media conglomerates and semiconductor firms. The platform integrates with NVIDIA DGX systems for petabyte-scale datasets in genomics and autonomous vehicle training, achieving sub-millisecond latencies.

CommVault Systems Inc provides cyber resiliency solutions designed to help the enterprise protect, secure, and recover its data, applications, and identity systems in a world of increasing cyber threats and attacks. Its offerings provide cyber resilience, including data protection, cyber recovery, data security, and governance, aiming to enable customers to continue business. The company delivers its solutions through Commvault Cloud, a cloud native platform that unifies data security, cyber recovery and identity resilience across on-premises, hybrid, multi-cloud, and software-as-a-service environments. It sells its offerings through subscription-based arrangements, including SaaS and term-based subscriptions, and also offers perpetual licenses, customer support, and professional services.

DataDirect Networks, operating as DDN, is a Chatsworth-headquartered leader in high-performance storage for AI and HPC, supporting over 500,000 GPUs worldwide. Its EXAScaler platform delivers 100 PB+ capacity at 100 GB/s throughput for sites like NASA and Lawrence Livermore. Founded in 1998, DDN serves hyperscalers and research labs with hybrid flash systems optimized for TensorFlow and GPU workloads.

Cribl is an Austin-headquartered software provider that delivers observability pipelines for routing, reducing, and enriching IT data. Its core products, Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge, enable organizations to process petabytes of logs, metrics, and traces before sending them to tools like Splunk or Datadog. Founded in 2018 by Clint Sharp and Ledion Bitincka, the company serves Fortune 500 enterprises in finance and tech, including Capital One and Salesforce. Cribl's platform operates on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge, supporting AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud integrations.

Qumulo is a Seattle-headquartered Scale Anywhere file data platform designed for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. It manages petabyte-to-exabyte scale unstructured data with real-time analytics, quota management, and active directory integration. Founded in 2012, Qumulo serves industries including media and entertainment, life sciences, and energy through partnerships with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. The platform supports NFS, SMB, and S3 protocols across on-premises, cloud, and edge deployments.

XSKY Data Technology is a Beijing-headquartered provider of software-defined storage solutions. The company contributes significantly to the Ceph open-source project, ranking top three globally in code commits. As Red Hat China's sole storage partner, XSKY serves financial services, telecom, transport, and energy sectors with scale-out NAS and object storage. Partnerships include Intel, Samsung, Dell, and Mellanox for hyper-converged infrastructure.

Oracle provides enterprise applications and infrastructure offerings through a variety of flexible IT deployment models, including on-premises, cloud-based, and hybrid. Founded in 1977, Oracle pioneered the first commercial SQL-based relational database management system, which is commonly used by the world’s largest companies for high-volume online transaction processing workloads. Besides databases, Oracle also sells enterprise resource planning platforms and cloud infrastructure that play an increasingly important role in large language model training and inferencing.

Dell Technologies is a broad information technology vendor, primarily supplying hardware to enterprises. It focuses on premium and commercial personal computers, as well as enterprise on-premises data center hardware. It holds top-three market shares in its core markets of personal computers, peripheral displays, mainstream servers, and external storage. Dell has a robust ecosystem of component and assembly partners, and also relies heavily on channel partners to fulfill its sales.

Databricks is a San Francisco-headquartered cloud platform unifying data engineering, analytics, and AI on a lakehouse architecture. Founded in 2013, it supports Delta Lake for reliable data lakes, MLflow for machine learning lifecycle management, and Unity Catalog for governance across workspaces. The platform powers ETL pipelines, serverless SQL warehouses, and generative AI model deployment for enterprises worldwide, including integrations with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

Founded in 2012, Snowflake is a fully managed platform that consolidates data hosted on different public clouds for centralized analytics and governance. Snowflake’s cloud-native architecture allows users to independently scale the compute and storage layers, providing customers with optimized performance at lower costs. The company’s data lake and data warehouse products support a variety of use cases, including business analytics, data engineering, and artificial intelligence. Snowflake is widely used by Fortune 2000 companies in financial services, media, and retail sectors.

Datadog is a cloud-native company that focuses on analyzing machine data. The firm's product portfolio, delivered via software as a service, enables clients to monitor and analyze their entire information technology infrastructure, from servers to applications and Python scripts. Datadog's platform can ingest and analyze large amounts of machine-generated data in real time, allowing clients to utilize it for a variety of applications throughout their businesses to ensure uptime and latency objectives.

NetApp Inc is a provider of enterprise data management and storage solutions. The company's segments include Hybrid Cloud and Public Cloud. It generates maximum revenue from the Hybrid Cloud segment. The Hybrid Cloud segment offers a portfolio of storage management and infrastructure solutions that help customers recast their traditional data centers with the power of the cloud. This portfolio is designed to operate with public clouds to unlock the potential of hybrid, multi-cloud operations. Hybrid Cloud is composed of software, hardware, and related support, as well as professional and other services. Geographically, the company generates the majority of its revenue from the United States, Canada and Latin America (Americas).

Founded in 2007, MongoDB is a vendor of a document-oriented database that accelerates development processes of new applications. Enterprise customers can choose between the fully managed offering, MongoDB Atlas, or the self-managed version, MongoDB Enterprise Advanced. MongoDB is a popular tool among developers, and its free Community Server has recorded over 500 million downloads since 2009.

Scale AI is a San Francisco-headquartered data platform supplying high-quality training and validation datasets for AI models in computer vision, NLP, and sensor fusion. The company's APIs enable annotation of LiDAR, images, video, and text for autonomous vehicles, drones, and robotics. Clients including General Motors, OpenAI, Meta, and U.S. Department of Defense rely on Scale AI's workforce and automation to label petabytes of data annually.

Nutanix Inc is engaged in cloud software, offering organizations a single platform for running applications and managing data anywhere. Its Nutanix Cloud Platform is designed to enable organizations to build a hybrid multicloud infrastructure, providing a consistent cloud operating model with a single platform for running applications and managing data in core data centers, at the edge, and in public clouds, all while supporting a variety of hypervisors and container platforms. The company operates a single operating and reportable segment based on a subscription business model. It conducts business in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, and other Americas, with key revenue generated from the United States.

Dynatrace is a software-as-a-service company that enables customers to monitor and analyze their information technology infrastructure, from servers to applications and Python scripts. Dynatrace’s unified platform can ingest and analyze large amounts of machine-generated data in real time, allowing clients to optimize their business for service-level objectives and ensure uptime.

ClickHouse is an open-source columnar database management system optimized for real-time analytical queries on large datasets. Developed initially at Yandex and released in 2016, the Moscow-headquartered project now serves global enterprises including eBay, Lyft, and CERN for data warehousing and observability. It supports SQL syntax with sub-second query performance on petabyte-scale data via vectorized execution and data compression. ClickHouse integrates with Kafka, S3, and Grafana, powering applications in fintech, gaming, and telecommunications.

Cyera is a San Francisco-headquartered data security posture management provider scanning multicloud environments including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. The platform discovers sensitive data across SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS layers, classifying assets and enforcing policies for compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA. Serving enterprises like Fortune 100 companies, Cyera correlates data flows with access risks to prevent leaks and enable automated remediation. Founded in 2021, it operates from offices in Tel Aviv and supports hybrid deployments worldwide.