As part of CRN’s 2026 Storage 100, here are 40 data recovery/observability/resilience technology vendors taking their offerings to new heights.
Even as the volume of data that businesses and consumers store continues to grow, the need to get value from that data explodes. As a result, storage systems that merely store data, back it up, monitor it or move it are no longer adequate.
Instead, a more comprehensive approach to handling all of that data is now expected. And while it could be done using a handful of best-in-class applications, it is increasingly being done with platforms that integrate the tasks of all those applications under a single-pane-of-glass console.
Vendors are providing technology to back up and restore data, but businesses in the end just want to make sure their data and operations can be recovered. And having a backup is OK, but what if a ransomware attack impacts the backup copy? That’s why businesses need resiliency. And data has to be moved and monitored, with the first step being to observe and discover it.
Now look at vendors like Veeam or Commvault or any number of their peers. The best-in-class companies don’t do one of these activities. They bring all these capabilities into a single platform that businesses can use to get the most value out of their data and get it ready for AI. And single-function applications no longer fit the bill.
As part of CRN’s 2026 Storage 100, here are 40 vendors bringing data recovery, observability or resiliency, or more often than not, all of these capabilities to customers.
Acronis
Jan-Jaap Jager
CEO
With its active protection technology, blockchain-based data authentication and hybrid cloud architecture, Acronis protects data in any environment including physical, virtual, cloud, mobile workloads and applications. The Schaffhausen, Switzerland-based company’s technology portfolio includes advanced ransomware protection, anti-malware defense, and the ability to restore the data from one system to any available machine in minutes regardless of the platform.
Amazon Web Services
Matt Garman
CEO
AWS develops technology to help users and organizations store and manage data for any workload at scale. The Seattle-based company’s storage line card includes automated backing up and managing data across AWS services; high-performance block storage (Elastic Block Store), file storage (Elastic File System) and object storage (S3); and fully managed file services for NetApp, Lustre, OpenZFS and Windows.
Arcitecta
Jason Lohrey
Founder, CEO
Arcitecta focuses on platforms to manage data for small businesses to enterprises. The Northcote, Victoria, Australia-based company’s Mediaflux platform provides a single worldview of all of a company’s stored data. It is an open platform with tight security and access controls accessed via a simple API to combine data management, metadata curation and a business’ own rules into a single distribution.
Arcserve
Chris Babel
CEO
Arcserve was a pioneer of backup software but has since morphed into a leader in unified data resilience with technology to protect data from ransomware, cyberattacks and disasters. The Eden Prairie, Minn.-based company provides comprehensive data protection across cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments, with integrated cyber resilience and the ability to secure SaaS data from Microsoft 365, Salesforce and other platforms.
Asigra
Eric Simmons
President, CEO
Asigra was founded in the mid-1980s as a data backup and recovery technology developer but now offers a full range of data protection capabilities including protection against ransomware attacks and other threats to backup and recovery of servers, virtual machines, endpoint devices, databases and SaaS/IaaS based applications. The Toronto (North York), Ontario-based company also provides compliance management and business continuity support.
AvePoint
Tianyi “TJ” Jiang
CEO
AvePoint provides multi-cloud data protection, security and governance and is hosted in 14 global data centers to provide scalability and security to the Microsoft 365 SaaS environment. The Jersey City, N.J.-based company’s platform includes a modernization suite with secure messaging, content migration and analytics; a resilience suite for data protection, business continuity and compliance; and a control suite for digital workplace management.
Backblaze
Gleb Budman
Chairperson, CEO
Backblaze develops high-performance cloud object storage it said helps accelerate AI workflows, power data-heavy applications, streamline media management and protect critical data. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company’s offerings include B2 Neo white-label cloud storage for neocloud platforms; B2 Overdrive high-throughput object storage for AI and data-intensive workloads; B2 Cloud Storage S3-compatible object storage; and B2 Reserve for predictable pricing.
Cirata
Stephen Kelly
Executive Director, CEO
London, U.K.-based Cirata specializes in the modernization of data lakes into leading cloud platforms for AI and analytics workloads, letting data leaders leverage AI and analytics across their entire enterprise data estate to freely choose analytics technologies and avoid vendor, platform or cloud lock-in via Cirata Symphony, its intelligent data orchestration platform.
Cirrus Data Solutions
Wayne Lam
CEO
Cirrus Data develops technology for management and seamless migration of data. The Syosset, N.Y.-based company’s Cirrus Data Cloud is a scalable, secure all-in-one data platform for managing on-premises, cloud or hybrid environment data. It features unified data mobility to migrate workloads across any environment with automation and real-time visibility and comes with advanced compliance, data control and security capabilities.
Cloud Software Group
Tom Krause
CEO
Cloud Software Group brings together a variety of software businesses including Citrix, Tibco and Spotfire. The Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based company’s storage focus came with 2025’s acquisition of Arctera, which encompassed Veritas’ data compliance, InfoScale and Backup Exec businesses. As a result, the Arctera stand-alone business in Cloud Software Group makes it a major provider of data compliance and governance technologies.
Cobalt Iron
Richard Spurlock
Founder, CEO
Cobalt Iron specializes in SaaS-based enterprise data protection technology. The Lawrence, Kan.-based company’s Compass software platform uses analytics and automation to help businesses transform and optimize legacy backup solutions into a simple cloud-based architecture with built-in cyber resilience and advanced multilayered security, including data governance, isolated copies with no direct connection to the primary data, and enhanced ransomware detection.
Cohesity
Sanjay Poonen
President, CEO
Cohesity in 2024 acquired much of Veritas, making it a large data management and data security technology provider. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company offers cloud-scale and AI-powered data security, AI-driven insight and a comprehensive multi-cloud portfolio with the latest in data protection, archiving and disaster recovery, along with ransomware and threat protection.
Collibra
Felix Van de Maele
Co-Founder, CEO
Collibra delivers a platform for unified governance for data and AI. The Brussels, Belgium-based company’s Collibra Platform also automates the enforcement of data privacy, defines data access policies and automatically enforces them, visualizes how data flows and is transformed, monitors data quality, accelerates data discovery and access, and transforms unstructured data for AI.
Commvault
Sanjay Mirchandani
President, CEO
Tinton Falls, N.J.-based Commvault is the power behind the Commvault Cloud, which combines data security, identity resilience and cyber recovery into a single enterprise-scale cloud-native platform. It finds and classifies sensitive data, applications and identities to provide visibility into an enterprise’s data, cloud resources, configurations and identity access patterns, and then applies consistent policies for access, encryption and retention.
CrashPlan
Dan Beer
CEO
CrashPlan provides enterprise-grade backup, recovery and archiving to protect organizations’ data. Its cloud-native platform helps businesses secure Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, endpoint and server data with scalable protection the Minneapolis-based company said aims to reduce risk, support compliance and control storage costs. The company’s technology also supports long-term data retention, legal hold and broader data governance requirements.
Datadobi
Ian Leysen
Co-Founder, CEO
Leuven, Belgium-based Datadobi develops technology to bring order to unstructured storage and hybrid cloud environments via its StorageMAP vendor-neutral data orchestration platform. StorageMAP uses deep analytics to helps enterprises gain insight into their unstructured data to find value while reducing cost and risk. StorageMAP aims to provide automated efficiency, agility and resiliency to business data.
Data Dynamics
Piyush Mehta
Founder, CEO
Hoboken, N.J.-based Data Dynamics is the company behind Zubin, an AI-driven self-service data management software aimed at addressing risk management, privacy, sovereignty, optimization and sustainability around the secure use of data. Zubin also addresses issues around data governance and compliance, analytics and insight, and data migration.
Druva
Jaspreet Singh
Founder, CEO
Druva helps businesses safeguard data wherever it lives, mitigate data risks and enjoy clean recovery. The Druva Data Security Cloud provides fully managed data security across enterprise, cloud, SaaS and end environments, including data protection, cyber response and recovery, eDiscovery and compliance, and identity resilience capabilities. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company also offers agentic AI to gain intelligence on the data.
Egnyte
Vineet Jain
CEO
Egnyte helps businesses use their mission-critical content in multiple ways. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company supports file collaboration, sharing and co-editing of massive files with what it called a desktop-cloud experience. It also provides data intelligence via its AI assistant, AI agents and AI search. In addition, Egnyte provides governance via sensitive content protection, compliance automation and AI safeguards.
Fivetran
George Fraser
CEO
Oakland, Calif.-based Fivetran provides an automated data pipeline for getting value out of data. It replaces the traditional ETL (extract, transform, load) way of restructuring data before it goes to a data warehouse with what it calls ELT (extract, load, transform), which loads the raw data in the warehouse where it goes through a single transformation with over 700 pre-built connectors.
GFI Software
Eric Vaughan
CEO
GFI Software develops several applications specifically for SMBs that leverage AI, including networking, security and communications. The Austin, Texas-based company’s GFI Archiver provides a complete storage system for securely archiving emails, files, calendars and folders in a central location and provides easy access when it’s needed, meets compliance requirements, reduces server space and improves email performance.
Google Cloud
Thomas Kurian
CEO
Google Cloud brings compute, storage, business intelligence and analytics, container, AI, and other innovations from across Google to help companies digitally transform their business. On the storage side, Mountain View, Calif.-based Google Cloud provides cloud-based block, file and object storage as the base for services including primary storage, data transfer, backup, disaster recovery and NetApp file services.
Hammerspace
David Flynn
CEO
Hammerspace develops the Hammerspace Data Platform, which unifies unstructured data across data centers, clouds and edge environments into a global namespace. This, the San Mateo, Calif.-based company said, helps eliminate data silos while orchestrating data across existing infrastructure, improving businesses’ access to and use of their data as a single resource across distributed systems without copying, migrating or replacing existing infrastructure.
HYCU
Simon Taylor
Founder, CEO
Boston-based HYCU’s HYCU R-Cloud helps protect a company’s SaaS, on-premises and cloud data and services. It provides a comprehensive view of a business’ entire data estate to help identify and fix potential issues, along with a single dashboard for simple management of data protection policies, as well as one-click backing up of data and quick granular recovery via predefined policies.
Index Engines
Tim Williams
Founder, CEO
Index Engines focuses on cyber resilience via its CyberSense flagship technology, which the Holmdel, N.J.-based company says delivers 99.99 percent accuracy in detecting ransomware-induced corruption. CyberSense is a purpose-built, high-speed and scalable full-content indexing platform that not only discovers attacks but also quickly pinpoints clean data to help ensure data recoveries aren’t compromised.
Internxt
Fran Villalba Segarra
Founder, CEO
Internxt is an open-source European privacy company focused on protecting data from surveillance. The Valencia, Spain-based company says it offers cloud storage with post-quantum cryptography and a zero-knowledge approach. Internxt’s platform includes secure cloud file storage, anti-virus to defend against malware and ransomware, VPM, storage optimization, secure video calls and secure sharing of files.
Komprise
Kumar Goswami
CEO
Komprise develops technology that analyzes and classifies petabytes of unstructured data across NAS, cloud and SaaS silos to help cut risks and costs while delivering the right data to AI. The Campbell, Calif.-based company provides data services around intelligent data management, including the ability to view usage and growth analytics on all data and then model costs to improve storage planning.
Lucidity
Nitin Bhadauria
Co-Founder, CEO
Lucidity develops an automated multi-cloud storage management platform aimed at helping organizations globally right-size block storage, gain global visibility and act on real-time insight, all while driving down cloud storage costs and eliminating operational friction. The New York-based company’s AutoScaler offering helps automatically eliminate block storage over provisioning, while Lumen provides visibility and Assessment uncovers hidden metrics and potential savings.
LucidLink
Peter Thompson
Co-Founder, CEO
LucidLink makes data instantly and securely accessible for anyone and from anywhere. The San Francisco-based company’s platform enables collaboration by unifying files, teams and tools with instant, cloud-native data access from anywhere. With LucidLink, every teammate gets instant access to the files they need without syncing or downloading. Smart local caching provides on-demand streaming and almost immediate access to changes.
Microsoft
Satya Nadella
Chairman, CEO
Microsoft is behind the hyperscale Azure cloud, which provides a wide range of AI, analytics, compute, container and other tools. On the storage side, the Redmond, Wash.-based company provides Azure Storage Mover for quick on-premises-to-cloud or cloud-to-cloud data migrations, Azure Data Box for low-bandwidth data migrations, Azure Files for enterprise-grade cloud file shares, and Azure Blob Storage for massive object storage.
MSP360
No CEO has been named as of press time
MSP360 provides simple, reliable backup and IT management technologies for MSPs and IT departments. The San Francisco-based company provides backups for desktops, Windows Server, SQL, Hyper-V and VMware, along with secure data protection for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. For MSPs, it combines those technologies with MSP360 RMM and MSP360 Managed Connect via a single management console.
N-able
John Pagliuca
President, CEO
N-able helps businesses defend against emerging cyberthreats with technologies to manage, secure and recover data across the entire threat life cycle. On the data side, the Burlington, Mass.-based company’s Cove data protection technology offers cloud-first backup and disaster recovery for servers, workstations and Microsoft 365. N-able also offers endpoint security and a variety of MSP management technologies including N-central RMM.
N2W Software
Ohad Kritz
Co-Founder, CEO
Tel Aviv, Israel-based N2W Software, a.k.a. “Not 2 Worry” Software, offers technology aimed at simplifying, automating and optimizing cloud data protection for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and other environments via a single console. It provides the ability to set flexible backup policies and schedules including automated backups and archiving. Also included is cross-cloud recovery, granular restores, and advanced reporting, alerts and monitoring.
Nakivo
Bruce Talley
Co-Founder, CEO
Nakivo provides data protection and recovery technologies targeting SMBs and enterprises. The Sparks, Nev.-based company, which says it has 3,000-plus partners serving over 16,000 customers, supports protection of data in virtual, cloud, physical, SaaS and NAS environments. It deploys on Windows and Linux environments, or as a virtual appliance with VMware vSphere and Nutanix AHV.
Nasuni
Sam King
CEO
Nasuni was an early developer of gateway technology to leverage object storage in the cloud. Over time, the Boston-based company’s technology has scaled to fit all files and locations globally while helping reduce storage costs and eliminating separate backup and disaster recovery actions. Nasuni says its technology evolved naturally to be a foundation for making data available for AI.
Quest Software
Tim Page
CEO
Quest Software’s history of building technology for data management and governance, cybersecurity and platform management have given it a foundation for enterprise AI. The Quest Trusted Data Management Platform features the Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based company’s Automated Data Product Factory, which unifies modeling, catalog, governance and AI-powered automation to deliver AI-ready data. Quest also offers multiple observability, management, replication and archive applications.
Quobyte
Bjorn Kolbeck
Co-Founder, CEO
Berlin, Germany-based Quobyte built a distributed software-defined storage system it says can scale into the tens of thousands of servers. It delivers massive, linearly scalable performance across all states of the AI pipeline to provide high throughput while reducing hardware and power requirements. Its fault-tolerant system scales to provide 100 percent availability without the need for extra hardware or maintenance windows.
Rubrik
Bipul Sinha
Co-Founder, Chairman, CEO
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Rubrik is the developer of the Rubrik Security Cloud, a system for securing data, monitoring it for data risks, and quickly recovering it no matter where it lives. The Rubrik Security Cloud helps achieve business resilience against cyberattacks, malicious insiders and operational disruptions, and on the way secures data wherever it lives across enterprise, cloud and SaaS environments.
Veeam Software
Anand Eswaran
CEO
Veeam, a leader in data resiliency and security management technology, sees identity, data, security and AI as inseparable. The Veeam Data Platform is self-managed software for hybrid and multi-cloud environment with data protection, cybersecurity, AI-driven insight and compliance. The Columbus, Ohio-based company also offers Veeam Data Cloud to protect cloud and SaaS applications including Microsoft 365, Azure, Salesforce and more.
Wasabi
David Friend
Co-Founder, President, CEO
Wasabi was developed with a goal of being the lowest-cost reliable cloud storage provider and says it is one-fifth the price of Amazon S3. That has made the Boston-based company one of the most popular providers of back-end storage capacity for many of the top names in data protection, surveillance, media and entertainment, infrastructure and system OEMs.
