The 20 Coolest Cloud Storage Companies Of The 2020 Cloud 100

Here are 20 of the coolest storage companies making their mark with cloud technology.

20 Coolest Cloud Storage Companies

Storage software-focused vendors and forward-thinking hardware vendors are wholeheartedly making cloud the center of their business. This is especially apparent in a wide range of companies that were built over the past few years, as they recognize that new technologies like artificial intelligence and new workloads like streaming have redefined the cloud landscape.

Here are 20 of the coolest storage companies making their mark with cloud technology.

Acronis

Serguei Beloussov, Chairman, CEO

Acronis provides backup, anti-ransomware, disaster recovery, storage, and enterprise file sync and share technologies. Its AI-based active protection technology, blockchain-based authentication and hybrid cloud architecture provide data protection in physical, virtual, cloud and mobile environments. Acronis in December acquired 5nine to add unified cloud management and security tools.

Actifio

Ash Ashutosh, Founder, CEO

Actifio’s data management platform was designed with an application focus to help enterprises accelerate their data-driven transformation initiatives. The Actifio Go SaaS platform gives Actifio a foothold in the growing multi-cloud copy data management market, while the new Actifio 10c focuses on hybrid and multi-cloud copy data management.

Arcserve

Tom Signorello, CEO

The UDP platform from data protection pioneer Arcserve backs up data from multiple sites to public and private clouds. The company early last year introduced purpose-built disaster recovery appliances to spin up copies of physical and virtual systems on the appliance or in private or public clouds.

Axcient

David Bennett, CEO

Data protection developer Axcient introduced its X360 converged backup platform with single sign-on and a common user experience for MSPs. The X360 combines Axcient’s CloudFinder Office 365data protection technology, its Anchor file sync and share technology, and its Replibit business continuity and disaster recovery software.

Carbonite, an OpenText company

Mark Barranechea, OpenText Vice Chairman, CEO, CTO

Carbonite was a pioneer in the cloud-focused data protection business starting on the consumer side, and has evolved into a major player on the business side. It is now protecting over 700 billion files, according to the company. OpenText acquired Carbonite in 2019.

Cohesity

Mohit Aron, Founder, CEO

Cohesity develops a single web-scale data management platform that manages and protects data from core to edge to cloud and extends to native integration for cloud, file and objects, security, and dev/test. The company has introduced new capabilities for Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure environments.

Commvault

Sanjay Mirchandani, Director, President, CEO

Commvault is an early data protection pioneer and in 2019 reorganized under new leadership with a focus on data management and a heavy cloud emphasis. The company last year also named Mirchandani its new CEO and made its first acquisition, that of software-defined data management vendor Hedvig.

Datrium

Tim Page, CEO

Datrium develops data life-cycle management capabilities that provide on-demand disaster recovery in the cloud, recovery from ransomware attacks, and the ability to freely migrate data across clouds. The company in 2019 introduced disaster recovery as a service on AWS and for VMware Cloud on AWS.

Datto

Tim Weller, CEO

Datto has over the past couple of years transformed from a simple data protection developer to an MSP technology powerhouse through its merger with Autotask and its move into networking. Datto in 2019 released Cloud Continuity for PCs and multiple SaaS protection technologies.

HYCU

Simon Taylor, CEO

HYCU Backup as a Service is a cloud-native service that grows and shrinks as needed. The company has added support for the Google Cloud Platform, and in December started shipping HYCU Protege, a new application-consistent business continuity offering to protect data across on-premises and multi-cloud environments.

Igneous

Kiran Bhageshpur, CEO

Igneous focuses on unstructured data management as a service with a cloud-native offering providing enterprises with visibility, protection and mobility of unstructured data at scale. The company has introduced new capabilities for Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.

OwnBackup

Sam Gutmann, CEO

OwnBackup provides secure, automated cloud-based protection and archiving for SaaS and PaaS data with an application focus, emphasizing Salesforce, Sage, Veeva and nCino environments. Last May the company closed a $23.25 million round of investment to help expand its cloud-to-cloud backup and recovery platform.

Rubrik

Bipul Sinha, Co-founder, CEO

Rubrik provides a single software-based platform for search, development and cloud storage, with instant recovery of data to on-premises, the edge, or the cloud after a ransomware attack. The company’s Andes 5.1 release added orchestrated disaster recovery, continuous data protection, and service-level agreement policy-based automation.

StorageCraft

Matt Medeiros, Chairman, CEO

StorageCraft is developer of the ShadowXafe and OneXafe line of software for bringing scale-out data protection, data management and business continuity to on-premises, virtualized and cloud environments. StorageCraft in May introduced a new version of its ShadowXafe software aimed specifically at the MSP market.

StorCentric

Mihir Shaw, CEO

StorCentric, born in 2018 with its Drobo and Nexsan acquisitions, last year acquired cloud data protection software company Retrospect and all-flash storage company Vexata, forming a storage company focused on on-premises and the cloud. Retrospect late last year introduced new granular remote management and new subscription capabilities.

Unitrends, a Kaseya company

Fred Voccola, Kaseya CEO

Unitrends, which merged with Kaseya in 2018, provides backup and continuity software focused on cloud and Disaster Recovery as a Service as well as ransomware detection. Unitrends Cloud Backup helps MSPs replicate data on servers and endpoint devices directly to the Unitrends Cloud.

Veeam

William Largent, Chairman, CEO

Leading data protection software vendor Veeam is looking to become a top provider of cloud-based data management as well as data protection. The company early this year was acquired by private equity and is now moving its headquarters to the U.S. to be closer to the top cloud providers.

Veritas

Greg Hughes, CEO

Data protection pioneer Veritas has become a market leader with a strong focus on cloud-based data protection and data management. Veritas last year expanded its Azure, VMware, AWS and Google cloud data protection and acquired analytics technology company Aptare.

Wasabi

David Friend, Co-founder, President, CEO

Wasabi promises cloud storage that gives businesses six times faster performance than Amazon S3 at only one-fifth of S3’s cost. That has helped make Wasabi one of the most connected-to cloud storage offerings with partnerships with Quest Software, QNAP, Equinix, Caringo, G-Core Labs, Zmanda and more.

WekaIO

Liran Zvibel, Co-founder, CEO

WekaIO said it offers the world’s fastest parallel file system for high-performance NAS targeting modern AI and high-velocity analytics workloads. Its flash-accelerated file storage can run on-premises or in public or hybrid cloud environments. Its file system also was upgraded with new security features aimed at high-performance computing.