The 40 Coolest Data Recovery/Observability/Resiliency Vendors: The 2025 Storage 100

As part of CRN’s 2025 Storage 100, here are 40 data recovery/observability/resilience technology vendors taking their offerings to new heights.

It used to be that data was backed up because it was too valuable to lose, whether to a downed server or some sort of operator error or malicious attack. And it still is. However, data backups are now only addressing one part of the value data brings to an organization.

Instead, the focus is on finding new value from data. Data is increasingly more important when it comes to making informed decisions, finding new ways to innovate in products and services, optimizing business operations and improving customer experience. And since the advent GenAI and ChatGPT, data has become the real power behind AI as the key to training AI models and building better AI algorithms.

And even as the value of business’ data stores increases, so does the complexity of protecting that data. Cybersecurity is on the top of executives’ minds as ransomware attacks become ubiquitous and attackers find ever-more sophisticated ways to attack the company jewels. Indeed, protecting data against ransomware has become the last line of defense for businesses not wanting to make the wrong headlines.

Vendors are also becoming more sophisticated. They are constantly improving their software and services to not only protect data against malicious attacks, but also to improve how data is more securely managed and moved to ensure it is ready to provide the kind of value customers expect to see from their data.

As part of CRN’s 2025 Storage 100, here are 40 data recovery/observability/resilience technology vendors taking their offerings to new heights.

Acronis

Ezequiel Steiner, CEO

Acronis is a global cyber protection company providing natively integrated cybersecurity, data protection and endpoint management for MSPs, SMBs and enterprise IT departments. The company’s technology is designed to identify, prevent, detect, respond, remediate and recover from modern cyberthreats with minimal downtime to help ensure data integrity and business continuity.

Amazon Web Services

Matt Garman, CEO

On-demand cloud provider AWS provides cloud storage as one of its key services to millions of users worldwide. In fact, one of its key storage protocols, Simple Storage Service, or S3, has been pretty much universally adopted by other storage vendors for object storage. AWS provides object, file and block storage; data migration; and hybrid cloud storage.

Arcitecta

Jason Lohrey, Founder, CEO

Arcitecta is the creator of Mediaflux, an open software platform that brings users a single view of all of their stored data. It includes tight security and access controls driven through a simple API and combines data management, metadata curation and the user’s business rules to integrate a company’s business systems and compute infrastructure with its data holdings.

Arcserve

Chris Babel, CEO

Arcserve was one of the pioneers of the data backup industry and over the years transformed into a provider of a wide range of data resilience and business continuity technologies. The company provides pure software and purpose-built appliances for data protection, as well as data protection for SaaS environment and a range of data protection services.

Arctera

Lawrence Wong, CEO

Arctera is the biggest and newest oldest data resilience and compliance technology provider. The company, formerly part of Veritas, was founded in December 2024 after Cohesity purchased the enterprise business of Veritas, leaving that company’s data compliance, InfoScale and BackupExec in the newly formed Arctera. Since its launch, Arctera has added new AI-powered features to its data compliance offering.

Asigra

Eric Simmons, President, CEO

Asigra develops technology that backs data up and layers on proactive ransomware scanning and other security safeguards to stop attacks on backup data. The company’s SaaSAssure provides backup and recovery of data from SaaS applications, while its Tigris line protects on-premises application data with bidirectional malware scan and multiperson approval and multifactor authentication.

AvePoint

Tianyi “TJ” Jiang, CEO

AvePoint provides comprehensive data protection and security technologies for Microsoft, Google and Salesforce applications. The company is also the developer of the AvePoint Confidence Platform, which offers multi-cloud protection with intelligent risk identification, proactive threat monitoring and incident response to enhance customers’ other cyber resilience technologies.

Backblaze

Gleb Budman, Chairperson, CEO

Backblaze provides an alternative to traditional cloud providers with high-performance and secure object storage for application development, media management, secure backups, building AI workflows and protecting against ransomware. The company has two main lines: B2 Cloud Storage for S3-compatible object storage and Computer Backup for online PC and Mac data protection.

Calamu Technologies

Paul Lewis, Founder, CEO

Calamu Data Harbor was developed by Calamu Technologies to help eliminate risks from data breaches and to automatically self-heal to reduce downtime. The technology encrypts data, breaks it into fragments and then scatters those fragments, making that data unusable if stolen. The software deploys seamlessly on customers’ existing data protection environments including NetBackup, Veeam Software, Dell Technologies or Cohesity.

Cirata

Stephen Kelly, CEO, Executive Director

Cirata specializes in the migration of Hadoop data lakes into leading cloud platforms to enable AI and analytics. It lets data leaders leverage AI and analytics across their entire enterprise data estate to freely choose analytics technologies while avoiding vendor, platform or cloud lock-in to help make AI and analytics faster, less expensive and more flexible.

Cirrus Data Solutions

Wayne Lam, Chairman, CEO

Cirrus Data focuses its development on migrating data to and from the cloud. Its Cirrus Migrate Cloud helps enable cloud providers and businesses accelerate migration of block data to the cloud as part of their digital transformation. Cirrus Data also develops an appliance-based technology, Cirrus Migrate On-Premises, for migrating block data between any system, cloud or location.

Cobalt Iron

Richard Spurlock, Founder, CEO

Cobalt Iron develops SaaS-based enterprise data protection data. The company’s Compass software platform helps enterprises transform and optimize legacy backup technologies into a simple cloud-based architecture with built-in cybersecurity that offers zero access to the backup environment, auditable data governance, isolated zones to prevent access to backup copies and ransomware detection.

Cohesity

Sanjay Poonen, President, CEO

Cohesity in late 2024 became the first or second largest data recovery/observability/resilience provider, depending on which analyst data is referenced, after its game-changing acquisition of Veritas’ enterprise data protection business. The company’s technology provides businesses with the ability to secure and manage their data while harnessing insight from that data.

Collibra

Felix Van de Maele, Co-Founder, CEO

Collibra is focused on helping businesses find intelligence in all the data they have stored via its Collibra Platform, which provides AI governance to catalog, assess and monitor AI use cases; data governance to maximize data usage while minimizing risk; a data catalog to accelerate data discovery; the ability to monitor data quality and observability; and automated data privacy.

Commvault

Sanjay Mirchandani, President, CEO

Commvault is committed to cloud-based data security via its Commvault Cloud, which lets businesses back up, monitor, report, manage and recover their data regardless of where it lives from a single central cloud-based platform. The cloud-native platform works with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Kubernetes and protects data natively in SaaS applications like Microsoft 365 and Salesforce.

CrashPlan

Dan Beer, CEO

CrashPlan offers comprehensive backup and recovery offerings for servers, endpoint devices and SaaS applications, powered by its cyber-ready data resilience platform, including safeguards against accidental deletion, ransomware and system failures, along with proactive threat detection and automated governance. It comes in four variants: CrashPlan for Microsoft 365, CrashPlan for Servers, CrashPlan for Endpoints and CrashPlan for MSPs.

Datadobi

Ian Leysen, Co-Founder, CEO

Datadobi specializes in unstructured data management with technology that helps bring order to heterogeneous unstructured storage and hybrid cloud environments via its StorageMAP technology. StorageMAP provides a single-pane-of-glass access to data insight that assists with using data for GenAI training. It also offers ransomware defense and the ability to help reduce costs and carbon footprints.

Data Dynamics

Piyush Mehta, Founder, CEO

Data Dynamics gives data intelligence-driven actionability. The company’s software focuses on such things as data security including privacy protection for ethical AI, risk analysis and remediation for sensitive data, and data access management and orchestration. It also provides data governance and compliance, data transformation for the cloud and data migration.

Druva

Jaspreet Singh, Founder, CEO

Druva provides data security offerings to help businesses secure and recover data from threats. The Druva Data Security Cloud is a fully managed SaaS offering featuring air-gapped and immutable data protection across cloud, on-premises and edge environments to help enable faster incident response, cyber remediation and data governance. Dell Technologies Capital is one of Druva’s investors.

Egnyte

Vineet Jain, CEO

Egnyte provides a turnkey, intelligent digital sharing platform that was purpose-built for businesses with high-value, mission-critical content. The platform offers file sharing for seamless collaboration, with threat detection and ransomware protection to protect data along with compliance capabilities including life-cycle management, data access management, compliance and controlled sharing. It works with cloud, multi-cloud and hybrid environments.

Google Cloud

Thomas Kurian, CEO

Google Cloud, the public cloud business of Google parent company Alphabet, offers businesses access to AI and machine learning, compute, storage, database, data analytics, networking, developer and security tools. On the storage side, it offers object storage for storing any type or amount of data, persistent block storage integrated with Google Compute Engine and GKE, and data transfer capabilities.

Hammerspace

David Flynn, CEO

Hammerspace develops its Global Data Platform to unify unstructured data across sites, clouds and any storage, with a high-performance parallel architecture for AI, GPUs and high-speed data analytics. It automates data placement nondisruptively with data orchestration to help eliminate data silos and make data instantly accessible for users, applications and compute clusters, wherever they are located.

HYCU

Simon Taylor, Founder, CEO

HYCU provides simple and reliable backup and recovery for business-critical SaaS apps and cloud services across on-premises, public cloud and SaaS workloads. HYCU R-Cloud offers data protection as a service that scales to thousands of applications, while the HYCU Data Resiliency Cloud, or R-Cloud, provides a comprehensive view of a business’ entire data estate and manages it with a single console.

Index Engines

Tim Williams, Founder, CEO

Index Engines helps organizations build infrastructure where trusted data is available and reliable. The company’s flagship CyberSense provides a 99.99 percent SLA for detecting ransomware corruptions to help businesses overcome cyber challenges, mitigate risks and recover to normal business operations. The company has strategic partnerships with companies including Dell Technologies, IBM and Infinidat.

Internxt

Fran Villalba Segarra, Founder, CEO

Internxt calls itself a “next-generation” open-source cloud storage service and an ethical alternative to privacy-light mainstream cloud services. The company’s Internxt Drive, billed as an alternative to Google Drive and Dropbox, aims to create a cloud storage ecosystem that gives users total control, security and privacy of the files and information they choose to move online.

Komprise

Kumar Goswami, CEO

Komprise creates an unstructured data management and mobility SaaS platform that is storage-agnostic and can look across all data storage technologies. That platform, Komprise Intelligent Management, helps businesses analyze, move and manage unstructured data in a variety of data-heavy industries including life sciences, health care, financial services, higher education, legal services, and media and entertainment.

LucidLink

Peter Thompson, Co-Founder, CEO

LucidLink provides fast access to files for multiuser collaboration regardless of format or size. That collaboration is available to a team across any distance with no need to download or sync files. It uses drag-and-drop to upload and encrypt the files and easily allows users to grant permissions. The technology also scales to any size or type of team.

Microsoft

Satya Nadella, Chairman, CEO

Microsoft’s Azure public cloud lets businesses build intelligent apps with a wide range of AI and machine learning, compute, containers, analytics, and storage tools and services. On the storage side, Azure provides blob (object), block and file storage; data lake, backup and archive services; and NetApp’s enterprise file services.

MSP360

Brian Helwig, CEO

MSP360, formerly known as CloudBerry Lab, develops data protection, endpoint management and remote access technology for MSPs and IT departments. The company’s MSP360 Managed Backup offers centralized, multiplatform data protection with automated backups, compliance-ready security, white-labeling, and vendor-neutral support for Amazon S2, Microsoft Azure, Wasabi, Backblaze B2 and more.

N2WS

Ohad Kritz, Co-Founder, CEO

N2WS, which is actually an acronym for “Not 2 Worry Software,” provides a cloud-native offering for data backup and recovery. The company provides a single console to manage all backups in Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure environments, with technology for setting up flexible backup policies, seamless cross-cloud recovery, granular restores and advanced reporting.

Nakivo

Bruce Talley, Co-Founder, CEO

Nakivo creates comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery technology for SMBs and enterprises. The company works with over 300 MSPs and 8,500 partners servicing over 30,000 customers with its Nakivo Backup & Replication offering that supports virtual and physical environments, clouds, SaaS and NAS with services that also include ransomware protection and malware scans.

Nasuni

Sam King, CEO

The Nasuni File Data Platform provides a single global file system for unstructured data and consolidates it into easily expandable object storage such as Amazon S3, Azure Blob and Google Cloud while providing scalable, security and fast edge performance. Nasuni helps businesses scale file management while optimizing costs. Dell Technologies Capital is a strategic investor in Nasuni.

Object First

David Bennett, CEO

Object First is a bit unusual in that it was founded by former Veeam executives specifically to deliver ransomware-proof object storage for customers using Veeam’s data protection software. Object First’s Ootbi (out of the box immutability) software is a quick way to add immutable protection to data and to provide fast recovery in case of a breach.

Quest Software

Tim Page, CEO

Quest provides data management and intelligence, cybersecurity and disaster recovery, and migration and modernization software, and estimates that its software is used by over 97 percent of Fortune 500 companies. The company most recently introduced disaster recovery for identity, a fast and secure Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID way to quickly recover after a ransomware attack.

Quobyte

Bjorn Kolbeck, Co-Founder, CEO

Quobyte’s founders, who also created the XtreemFS file system, formed Quobyte to develop a scalable and flexible infrastructure to help organizations handle rapid data growth. The company’s parallel file system provides scale-out file and object storage for any x86 server or the cloud, which ensures performance increases as resources are added.

Rubrik

Bipul Sinha, Co-Founder, Chairman, CEO

Rubrik, a developer of data protection, cyber recovery and data threat analytics software, held its IPO in 2024, raising $752 million at a valuation of about $5.6 billon. The company brings those capabilities across the three major hyperscaler cloud providers, as well as across Microsoft, Salesforce and Atlassian SaaS environments.

Silk

Dani Golan, Founder, CEO

Silk is the creator of the Silk Cloud DB Virtualization Platform, which aims to make business clouds smarter by letting customers scale their databases flexibly and on-demand while also improving performance. The platform builds capacity using virtual machines to improve throughput and IOPs and allows for zero-footprint instantaneous snapshots of production data to be fed into AI systems..

US Signal

Dan Watts, CEO

US Signal provides network-powered cloud infrastructure, data protection and security services. The company helps solution providers bring a wide variety of services to their customers including public cloud repatriation, colocating at the edge, optimizing IT spend, replacing MPLS networking and ransomware protection. The company has 16 data centers in 11 cities across the country.

Veeam Software

Anand Eswaran, CEO

Veeam was one of the earliest developers of cloud data resilience technology and has since expanded to cover the gamut of data protection and data resilience. The company’s Veeam Data Platform provides data protection for SMBs through enterprises, while its Veeam Data Cloud provides backup and storage services for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure.

Wasabi

David Friend, Co-Founder, President, CEO

Wasabi pioneered providing S3-compatible cloud storage at a significantly lower cost than the hyperscalers, both in terms of cost per terabyte and not tacking on fees for egress or API requests. It has since become the cloud behind some of the industry’s leading data protection software vendors including MSP360, Arctera, Dell Technologies, Veeam Software, Arcserve, Asigra and more.