The 20 Coolest Cloud Storage Companies Of The 2025 Cloud 100
These 20 companies bring the latest in data storage, protection, management and migration technologies to help businesses know their data is accessible and protected no matter where it resides or how it moves.
The line between data protection and management and cybersecurity across cloud and on-premises infrastructures is starting to blur as storage vendors increasingly adopt such capabilities as ransomware protection and data immutability.
For some, increased cyber resiliency capabilities have become important add-ons to their cloud storage offerings. For others, particularly late entrants into the storage market, cyber resiliency is core to their technologies. Indeed, two vendors in the latter camp in 2024 staked their futures on cyber resilience: Rubrik in April 2024 completed its IPO, and Cohesity in December closed its acquisition of Veritas.
In either case, they are advancing the goal posts when it comes to protecting business and consumer user data by making it more difficult to compromise data.
As part of CRN’s 2025 Cloud 100 list, here are 20 companies making their mark in the cloud storage space.
Arcserve
Chris Babel
CEO
While Arcserve has been doing data protection and data management longer than nearly all of its competitors, it has kept up with the times via its strong focus on backup and disaster recovery in the cloud and on cloud-to-cloud data protection. The company also has a strong cybersecurity practice around cloud data.
Cohesity
Sanjay Poonen
President, CEO
Cohesity in 2024 joined the top two in terms of cloud storage, data protection and data management by closing its acquisition of industry pioneer Veritas. It now combines the leading-edge development capabilities and cybersecurity know-how of Cohesity with Veritas’ data protection software and large installed base.
Commvault
Sanjay Mirchandani
President, CEO
Commvault has in the last decade grown from being just a competitor of Veritas to a leading driver of cloud-focused storage technology both because of its own technology development and because of key acquisitions including Clumio’s AWS-focused scalable cloud data protection and cyber resilience technology and Hedwig’s software-defined capabilities.
DataCore
Dave Zabrowski
CEO
Long-before software-defined storage burst upon the IT industry, DataCore spearheaded the development of software for protecting and managing data from the core to the edge to the cloud. The company’s DataCore.NEXT platform automatically moves storage resources between the core, edge and the cloud based on performance and cost requirements.
DDN
Alex Bourzari
Co-Founder, CEO
DDN develops storage-focused hardware and software targeting the highest-performance IT infrastructures. The company’s DDN EXAScaler for Public Cloud technology helps optimize AI, machine learning and HPC workloads with high-performance and scalable file storage in multi-cloud environments. The company’s technology, targeting cloud and Nvidia cloud solution providers, is fully compatible with AWS S3 APIs.
Hammerspace
David Flynn
Co-Founder, CEO
Hammerspace provides its Global Data Platform to unify unstructured data across sites, clouds and any storage devices to provide increased performance for AI, GPUs and high-speed data analytics while also orchestrating the automation of data placement to help eliminate data silos and make data instantly accessible regardless of where users are located.
HYCU
Simon Taylor
Founder, CEO
HYCU develops technology to protect SaaS apps and cloud services data in a multi-cloud world. It provides a comprehensive view of data across public and private clouds and traditional applications and databases and provides a single-pane-of-glass dashboard to view and manage all that data from a single user interface.
Infinidat
Phil Bullinger
CEO
Infinidat delivers enterprise-class technologies for data storage, data protection, business continuity and sovereign cloud storage, all based on a single fundamental technology foundation that provides high availability, high performance and low total cost of ownership at multi-petabyte scale via its InfuzeOS software-defined storage architecture, which leverages AI and machine learning.
Komprise
Kumar Goswami
Founder, CEO
Komprise provides a single migration platform for unstructured data management and data mobility for petabyte-scale workloads. The platform analyzes, manages and migrates file and object data to the most cost-effective storage and supports AI data workflows without storage vendor lock-in.
MinIO
Anand Babu “AB” Periasamy
Co-Founder, CEO
MinIO is the developer of AIStor, a sophisticated object storage technology designed for the exascale data infrastructure challenges that come with modern AI workloads. AIStor provides performance, security, scalability, stability and support across such services as replication, encryption, object immutability, identity and access management, information life cycle, versioning and key management.
MSP360
Brian Helwig
CEO
MSP360 provides simple and reliable backup and IT management technologies aimed at MSPs and IT departments worldwide. The MSP360 platform includes an easy-to-use backup capability to protect data, software for secure remote access to support customers or team members, and a simple RMM (remote monitoring and management) to handle IT infrastructures.
Nasuni
Paul Flanagan
CEO
The Nasuni File Data Platform provides a single global file system for unstructured data with a high level of control, flexibility and security. It consolidates file data in expandable, durable object storage such as Amazon S3, Azure Blob and Google Cloud with unlimited scalability, built-in security and fast edge performance.
NetApp
George Kurian
CEO
NetApp brings businesses a silo-less approach to storage that combines unified data storage with its enterprise-grade storage services natively embedded in the top cloud hyperscalers, integrated data services with built-in data resilience and policy-based governance, and CloudOps capabilities providing AI-powered optimization for on-premises and cloud infrastructures.
Panzura
Dan Waldschmidt
CEO
Panzura develops the CloudFS hybrid cloud file services platform that allows business users to consolidate and protect unstructured file data in and out of the cloud with immutable data and snapshots. CloudFS consolidates file data into public or private cloud storage with flexibility, capacity management, and streamlined data portability and resource utilization.
Pure Storage
Charles Giancarlo
Chairman, CEO
Pure Storage provides technology to store, migrate and manage data across on-premises and cloud environments to help businesses operate data centers like a cloud with AI-driven deployment and provisioning. Its platform provides container data management, managed data services, self-service capabilities, storage on demand and SLA guarantees.
Quantum
Jamie Lerner
Chairman, CEO
Quantum provides technology for edge to core to cloud management and security of data. Its StorNext technology provides collaborative, high-speed shared file storage across tape, object storage or the cloud, while its scalable ActiveScale S3-compatible object storage technology helps businesses build data lakes and private and hybrid clouds.
Rubrik
Bipul Sinha
Co-Founder, Chairman, CEO
Rubrik develops technology called the Rubrik Security Cloud to secure data, monitor it for risks and recover it after an attack to provide business resilience against cyberattack, malicious insiders and operational disruptions across enterprise, cloud and SaaS environments. It’s built on a modern, zero-trust architecture powered by machine learning.
Vast Data
Renen Hallak
Founder, CEO
The Vast Data Platform is built around what Vast Data calls DASE, or disaggregated shared-everything. The platform provides high-performance and intelligent structured and unstructured storage capabilities across a single global namespace for all on-premises and cloud-based data to streamline data management and accelerate data for AI workloads.
Veeam Software
Anand Eswaran
CEO
Veeam’s storage technology protects and manages data in the cloud, on-premises and at remote sites. The Veeam Data Platform also provides data resilience with AI-powered ransomware response and orchestrated recovery capabilities to help ensure SLA readiness and protect backups across a company’s entire hybrid data estate from unauthorized access, encryption or deletion.
Wasabi
David Friend
Co-Founder, CEO
Wasabi develops what it says is the lowest-cost, fastest and most secure cloud storage and data protection available. The company’s Hot Cloud Storage offers cloud object storage with no tiers and no egress fees or API calls, while its Wasabi Cloud NAS provides unlimited low-cost cloud storage for file data.