# Techarda

> Techarda is an independent technology town square where enterprise technology buyers and practitioners follow what’s changing, compare companies and swap notes.

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## Machine-readable access
- [Agent API index](https://techarda.com/api/v1): JSON endpoints for content, solutions, vendors and categories
- [JSON Feed](https://techarda.com/feed.json): latest published content
- [Sitemap](https://techarda.com/sitemap.xml)

## Solution categories
- [AI & ML Platforms](https://techarda.com/categories/ai-ml-platforms)
- [AI Agents & Automation](https://techarda.com/categories/ai-agents)
- [Data & Analytics](https://techarda.com/categories/data-analytics)
- [Databases](https://techarda.com/categories/databases)
- [Cloud Infrastructure](https://techarda.com/categories/cloud-infrastructure)
- [Hybrid & Multicloud](https://techarda.com/categories/hybrid-multicloud)
- [Containers & Kubernetes](https://techarda.com/categories/containers-kubernetes)
- [DevOps & Platform Engineering](https://techarda.com/categories/devops-platform-engineering)
- [Developer Tools](https://techarda.com/categories/developer-tools)
- [Observability](https://techarda.com/categories/observability)
- [Security](https://techarda.com/categories/security)
- [Networking](https://techarda.com/categories/networking)
- [Storage & Data Protection](https://techarda.com/categories/storage)
- [HPC & Accelerated Compute](https://techarda.com/categories/hpc-accelerated-compute)
- [Edge & IoT](https://techarda.com/categories/edge-iot)
- [Enterprise Applications](https://techarda.com/categories/enterprise-applications)

## Evaluation guides
- [How to evaluate security vendors](https://techarda.com/categories/security/evaluate): Use this guide to build a security shortlist you can defend. Judge vendors on detection quality in your own environment, identity coverage, how well they fit the tools you already run, the real cost of operating them and how they behave when something goes wrong. Then compare three to five companies on Techarda using recent news, practitioner questions and reviews.
- [How to evaluate AI agent platforms](https://techarda.com/categories/ai-agents/evaluate): Use this guide to compare AI agent and automation platforms before you commit. Judge them on how they limit what agents can do, how you test and trace behaviour, how they connect to your systems, cost per completed task, data handling and how easily you can change models. Then shortlist three to five companies on Techarda and test them on one real workflow.
- [How to evaluate hybrid and multicloud platforms](https://techarda.com/categories/hybrid-multicloud/evaluate): Use this guide to compare hybrid and multicloud platforms on what decides the outcome: consistent operations across environments, the real cost of leaving, licensing terms, cost visibility, security policy and data residency. Then shortlist three to five companies on Techarda, check recent news for licensing or ownership changes, and compare them side by side.
- [Trust dashboard](https://techarda.com/trust): live counts of published reviews, community posts, labelled vendor posts, source attribution and company profile checks

## Techarda originals
- [August 2026 in enterprise technology: agents meet governance, inference M&A and trust as the attack surface](https://techarda.com/content/august-2026-in-enterprise-technology): August 2026 put guardrails around AI agents, from enterprise auth for MCP to data isolation at the database. Meanwhile AMD bought into inference, attackers exploited trust, and VMware alternatives started guaranteeing migration timelines.
- [July 2026 in enterprise technology: sovereign AI, inference money and the VMware exit](https://techarda.com/content/july-2026-in-enterprise-technology): July 2026 was about control and capital: enterprises demanded say over where AI runs, investors poured money into inference hardware, SASE consolidation kept growing, and more service providers mapped their route off VMware.

## Vendors
- [ABB](https://techarda.com/vendors/abb): ABB is a Swiss-Swedish electrification and automation company formed in 1988 by the merger of ASEA and Brown, Boveri & Cie. Headquartered in Zurich, it supplies electrification products, motion and drive systems, process and discrete automation, and the ABB Ability industrial IoT and digital platform to utilities, industry, infrastructure and transport operators worldwide.
- [Adobe](https://techarda.com/vendors/adobe): Adobe is a US software company founded in 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke and headquartered in San Jose, California. It sells Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro), Document Cloud (Acrobat, PDF), Adobe Experience Cloud for marketing and customer experience, and Firefly generative AI models to creative professionals, businesses and enterprises.
- [Advantech](https://techarda.com/vendors/advantech): Advantech is a Taiwanese industrial computing company founded in 1983 and headquartered in Taipei. It makes embedded boards and systems, industrial PCs, edge computers, IoT gateways, industrial networking and display products, and its WISE-IoT software, serving manufacturing, energy, transport, healthcare, retail and other industrial markets.
- [Akamai](https://techarda.com/vendors/akamai): Akamai Technologies is a US content delivery, cybersecurity and cloud computing company founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It operates one of the largest distributed edge networks, selling CDN and media delivery, web application and API protection, DDoS mitigation and Zero Trust security, and Akamai Cloud compute built on its 2022 acquisition of Linode.
- [Alibaba Cloud](https://techarda.com/vendors/alibaba-cloud): Alibaba Cloud, also known as Aliyun, is the cloud computing business of Alibaba Group, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Hangzhou, China. It provides public cloud infrastructure including Elastic Compute Service, Object Storage Service, databases such as PolarDB, big data and AI services, and develops the Qwen family of large language models, serving customers in China and internationally.
- [Alteryx](https://techarda.com/vendors/alteryx): Alteryx is a US analytics software company founded in 1997 and headquartered in Irvine, California. Its Alteryx One platform, including Alteryx Designer and cloud-based analytics, lets business analysts prepare, blend and analyse data and build automated workflows with low-code tools. Alteryx was taken private by Clearlake Capital and Insight Partners in 2024.
- [Amazon Web Services](https://techarda.com/vendors/aws): Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon, headquartered in Seattle and launching its core services in 2006. It offers on-demand infrastructure and platform services including EC2 compute, S3 storage, databases such as Aurora and DynamoDB, EKS containers, IoT, analytics, Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker for AI, and Trainium and Graviton custom chips.
- [AMD](https://techarda.com/vendors/amd): AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) is a US semiconductor company founded in 1969 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It designs EPYC server CPUs, Ryzen client processors, Radeon graphics, Instinct data centre GPU accelerators with the ROCm software stack, and adaptive computing products from Xilinx, acquired in 2022, for data centre, HPC, AI, PC, gaming and embedded markets.
- [Anthropic](https://techarda.com/vendors/anthropic): Anthropic is an AI safety and research company founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco. It develops the Claude family of large language models, offered through the Claude apps, the Claude Developer Platform (API), Claude Code for software development, and cloud marketplaces including Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud Vertex AI. Anthropic is a public benefit corporation.
- [Anyscale](https://techarda.com/vendors/anyscale): Anyscale is a US AI infrastructure company founded in 2019 by the creators of Ray, the open-source distributed computing framework from UC Berkeley. Headquartered in San Francisco, it offers a managed Ray platform for scaling AI and Python workloads, including data processing, training, fine-tuning and inference. In July 2026 Anyscale agreed to be acquired by AI cloud provider Nscale; the deal has not yet closed.
- [Aqua Security](https://techarda.com/vendors/aqua-security): Aqua Security is a cloud native security company founded in Israel in 2015. It provides a cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP) covering container, Kubernetes and serverless security, image and supply chain scanning, and runtime protection, and maintains open-source projects including Trivy, Tracee and kube-bench. It serves enterprises running containerised workloads.
- [Arista Networks](https://techarda.com/vendors/arista): Arista Networks is a US networking company founded in 2004 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It sells high-speed Ethernet switches and routers running its EOS operating system, CloudVision management software, campus and Wi-Fi products, and network observability and security tools, serving cloud providers, AI data centres, enterprises and service providers.
- [Arm](https://techarda.com/vendors/arm): Arm is a British semiconductor IP company founded in 1990 and headquartered in Cambridge, England. It designs the Arm instruction set architecture and licenses CPU cores (Cortex, Neoverse), GPUs and compute subsystems to chipmakers, underpinning most smartphones and a growing share of data centre, automotive and edge chips. SoftBank Group is Arm's majority owner; it listed on Nasdaq in 2023.
- [Atlassian](https://techarda.com/vendors/atlassian): Atlassian is a software company founded in Sydney, Australia, in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar. It sells team collaboration and software development tools including Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management, Bitbucket, Loom and the Rovo AI platform, delivered mainly through Atlassian Cloud. Atlassian is listed on Nasdaq and redomiciled to the United States in 2022.
- [Automation Anywhere](https://techarda.com/vendors/automation-anywhere): Automation Anywhere is a US intelligent automation company founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It sells a cloud-native Automation Success Platform combining robotic process automation (RPA), AI agents, intelligent document processing and process discovery, used by enterprises to automate business workflows across finance, operations, customer service and IT.
- [Aviatrix](https://techarda.com/vendors/aviatrix): Aviatrix is a US cloud networking and network security company founded in 2014. Its platform provides multicloud networking, cloud firewalling and egress security, and network visibility across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud, using a common control plane and gateways deployed in customers' cloud accounts. It serves enterprises operating complex cloud estates.
- [Backblaze](https://techarda.com/vendors/backblaze): Backblaze is a US cloud storage company founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Mateo, California. It offers B2 Cloud Storage, an S3-compatible object storage service, and Backblaze Computer Backup for individuals and businesses. It is known for publishing its hard drive reliability statistics. Backblaze has been listed on Nasdaq since 2021.
- [BigPanda](https://techarda.com/vendors/bigpanda): BigPanda is a US AIOps company founded in 2012. Its platform uses machine learning and AI to correlate alerts from monitoring, observability and change tools into incidents, surface probable root causes and automate incident response workflows, helping IT operations and site reliability teams in large enterprises reduce alert noise and resolve outages faster.
- [Bosch](https://techarda.com/vendors/bosch): Bosch (Robert Bosch GmbH) is a German engineering and technology group founded in 1886 by Robert Bosch and headquartered in Gerlingen near Stuttgart. It operates in mobility, industrial technology, consumer goods and energy and building technology, and supplies MEMS sensors, IoT software and connected industrial solutions. It is majority owned by the charitable Robert Bosch Stiftung.
- [Broadcom](https://techarda.com/vendors/broadcom): Broadcom is a US semiconductor and infrastructure software company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, formed when Avago Technologies acquired Broadcom Corporation in 2016. It sells networking, broadband, storage and custom AI accelerator chips, and infrastructure software including VMware Cloud Foundation, Tanzu and CA and Symantec enterprise products. It completed its acquisition of VMware in 2023.
- [Buildkite](https://techarda.com/vendors/buildkite): Buildkite is a software delivery platform company founded in Melbourne, Australia, in 2013. Its hybrid CI/CD platform runs pipelines on agents hosted in customers' own infrastructure or on Buildkite-hosted agents, and its product suite includes Pipelines, Test Engine and Package Registries. It is used by engineering teams that need to run large, fast and secure builds.
- [Bull](https://techarda.com/vendors/bull): Bull is a French advanced computing company specialising in high-performance computing, AI infrastructure and quantum computing. It designs and manufactures BullSequana supercomputers and servers and develops the Qaptiva quantum software suite. Founded in 1931 and part of Atos from 2014, Bull has been owned by the French State since 31 March 2026, when the State completed its acquisition of Atos's Advanced Computing business.
- [Canonical](https://techarda.com/vendors/canonical): Canonical is a British software company founded in 2004 by Mark Shuttleworth and headquartered in London. It publishes Ubuntu, the open-source Linux distribution, and sells commercial support and security maintenance through Ubuntu Pro, along with open-source infrastructure products including Canonical Kubernetes, MicroK8s, OpenStack, LXD, MAAS and Juju. Canonical is privately held.
- [Cato Networks](https://techarda.com/vendors/cato-networks): Cato Networks is an Israeli networking and security company founded in 2015 by Shlomo Kramer and Gur Shatz and headquartered in Tel Aviv. It sells the Cato SASE Cloud platform, which converges SD-WAN, a global private backbone, secure web gateway, firewall-as-a-service, CASB, ZTNA and data loss prevention into a single cloud-delivered service for enterprises.
- [Cerebras](https://techarda.com/vendors/cerebras): Cerebras Systems is a US AI computing company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It builds the Wafer-Scale Engine, a processor made from an entire silicon wafer, and CS-series systems built around it, and offers the Cerebras inference cloud and on-premises AI supercomputers. Cerebras has been listed on Nasdaq under the ticker CBRS since May 2026.
- [Check Point Software](https://techarda.com/vendors/check-point): Check Point Software Technologies is an Israeli cybersecurity company founded in 1993 and headquartered in Tel Aviv. It sells network firewalls and the Quantum security gateway family, CloudGuard cloud security, Harmony workspace and email security, and the Infinity platform for unified management and threat prevention, serving enterprises, governments and service providers. It is listed on Nasdaq.
- [Checkly](https://techarda.com/vendors/checkly): Checkly is a synthetic monitoring and API monitoring company founded in 2018 and based in Berlin, Germany. Its platform uses Playwright-based browser checks and API checks defined as code, with a CLI and Terraform provider, to test and monitor web applications and APIs in production. It targets developers and SRE teams practising monitoring as code.
- [Chronosphere](https://techarda.com/vendors/chronosphere): Chronosphere is a cloud native observability company founded in 2019 by Martin Mao and Rob Skillington, creators of the M3 metrics platform at Uber. It offers the Chronosphere Observability Platform for metrics, traces, logs and events, with controls to shape and reduce telemetry data volumes, and Calyptia-based telemetry pipelines. Palo Alto Networks completed its acquisition of Chronosphere in January 2026.
- [Ciena](https://techarda.com/vendors/ciena): Ciena is a US networking systems and software company founded in 1992 and headquartered in Hanover, Maryland. It sells optical networking equipment including WaveLogic coherent optics and packet-optical platforms, routing and switching, and Blue Planet automation software to telecommunications service providers, cloud and data centre operators, governments and enterprises. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
- [CircleCI](https://techarda.com/vendors/circleci): CircleCI is a US continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) company founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco. Its cloud and self-hosted server platform automates building, testing and deploying software, with configuration as code, orbs for reusable configuration, and support for Linux, macOS, Windows, Arm and GPU execution environments.
- [Cisco](https://techarda.com/vendors/cisco): Cisco is a US networking and security company founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It sells enterprise, data centre and service provider networking (Catalyst, Nexus, Meraki, Silicon One), security products including firewalls and Cisco Security Cloud, Splunk observability and security analytics, and Webex collaboration. It completed its acquisition of Splunk in 2024.
- [ClickHouse](https://techarda.com/vendors/clickhouse): ClickHouse, Inc. is the company behind ClickHouse, the open-source column-oriented database for real-time analytics originally developed at Yandex. Formed as an independent company in 2021, it offers ClickHouse Cloud, a managed serverless service on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, and supports the Apache 2.0-licensed open-source project, used for analytics, observability and AI workloads.
- [CloudBees](https://techarda.com/vendors/cloudbees): CloudBees is a US software delivery company founded in 2010. It sells enterprise CI/CD and DevSecOps products built around Jenkins, including CloudBees CI and CloudBees Unify, with capabilities for release orchestration, feature management and compliance. CloudBees is a major contributor to the Jenkins open-source project and serves large enterprises with governed software delivery at scale.
- [Cloudera](https://techarda.com/vendors/cloudera): Cloudera is a US data platform company founded in 2008 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Its Cloudera Data Platform provides hybrid data management, data engineering, data warehousing, streaming and machine learning on an open data lakehouse built on Apache Iceberg, across public clouds and on-premises. It merged with Hortonworks in 2019 and was taken private by KKR and CD&R in 2021.
- [Cloudflare](https://techarda.com/vendors/cloudflare): Cloudflare is a US connectivity cloud company founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco. It operates a global network providing CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, web application firewall, Zero Trust access and SASE services, and a developer platform including Workers serverless compute, R2 storage and Workers AI. Cloudflare has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 2019.
- [Cockroach Labs](https://techarda.com/vendors/cockroach-labs): Cockroach Labs is a US database company founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York. It develops CockroachDB, a distributed SQL database with PostgreSQL wire compatibility designed for resilience, horizontal scale and multi-region deployments, offered as self-hosted software and as the managed CockroachDB Cloud service on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
- [Cohere](https://techarda.com/vendors/cohere): Cohere is a Canadian enterprise AI company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Toronto. It develops large language models, including Command for generation, Embed for semantic search and Rerank for retrieval, plus the North platform for workplace AI agents, with private deployment options for businesses and governments. In 2026 Cohere agreed to merge with German AI company Aleph Alpha, pending regulatory approval.
- [Cohesity](https://techarda.com/vendors/cohesity): Cohesity is a data security and data management company founded in 2013 by Mohit Aron and headquartered in San Jose, California. Its portfolio covers backup and recovery, cyber resilience, and AI-powered data search, including Cohesity DataProtect, NetBackup and Gaia. In December 2024 Cohesity completed its combination with Veritas Technologies' enterprise data protection business. The company is privately held.
- [Commvault](https://techarda.com/vendors/commvault): Commvault is an American data protection and cyber-resilience software company headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey. Its Commvault Cloud platform provides backup, recovery, ransomware protection and data management across on-premises, cloud and SaaS workloads, delivered as software or as a service. Commvault originated in 1988 as a development group within Bell Labs, was incorporated in 1996 and is listed on Nasdaq (CVLT).
- [Confluent](https://techarda.com/vendors/confluent): Confluent is a data streaming company founded in 2014 by Jay Kreps, Neha Narkhede and Jun Rao, the original creators of Apache Kafka. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, it offers Confluent Cloud, a fully managed service for Kafka and Apache Flink, and the self-managed Confluent Platform. IBM completed its acquisition of Confluent in March 2026, and Confluent was delisted from Nasdaq.
- [Coralogix](https://techarda.com/vendors/coralogix): Coralogix is an observability platform company founded in 2014 by Ariel Assaraf. It provides a SaaS platform for logs, metrics, traces, real user monitoring and security data, using an in-stream analysis architecture that processes telemetry before indexing to help control data storage costs. Coralogix also offers AI observability capabilities for monitoring generative AI applications. The company is privately held.
- [CoreWeave](https://techarda.com/vendors/coreweave): CoreWeave is an American AI cloud provider headquartered in Livingston, New Jersey. It operates data centres offering GPU-accelerated compute, storage and networking for training and running AI models, with managed Kubernetes and Slurm services. Founded in 2017 as Atlantic Crypto, it pivoted to cloud computing, listed on Nasdaq (CRWV) in March 2025 and acquired AI developer platform Weights & Biases in 2025.
- [Cortex](https://techarda.com/vendors/cortex): Cortex is an internal developer portal company founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco. Its platform catalogues an organisation's services, owners and dependencies, and uses scorecards, initiatives and workflows to track engineering standards such as production readiness, security and reliability. Cortex serves platform engineering and developer experience teams and is a privately held, venture-backed company that went through Y Combinator.
- [Couchbase](https://techarda.com/vendors/couchbase): Couchbase is a NoSQL database company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, formed in 2011 through the merger of Membase and CouchOne. It develops Couchbase Server, the Capella database-as-a-service, and Couchbase Mobile for offline-first and edge applications, combining JSON document storage, key-value access, SQL++ querying and vector search. Couchbase was listed on Nasdaq from 2021 until it was taken private by Haveli Investments in 2025.
- [Coupa](https://techarda.com/vendors/coupa): Coupa is a business spend management software company founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Mateo, California. Its cloud platform covers procurement, invoicing, expense management, supplier management, contract management and treasury, helping organisations control and analyse spending. Coupa was listed on Nasdaq from 2016 until private equity firm Thoma Bravo completed its acquisition of the company in 2023.
- [CrewAI](https://techarda.com/vendors/crewai): CrewAI is an AI agent company known for its open-source Python framework for orchestrating teams of collaborating AI agents, called crews, that take on defined roles and tasks. Created by João Moura, the framework is used to build multi-agent automations with large language models. CrewAI also offers a commercial platform for building, deploying and monitoring agent workflows in enterprises.
- [Cribl](https://techarda.com/vendors/cribl): Cribl is a telemetry data management company founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco. Its products, including Cribl Stream, Cribl Edge, Cribl Search and Cribl Lake, let IT and security teams collect, route, reduce, enrich and search logs, metrics and traces across observability and SIEM tools. Cribl was founded by Clint Sharp, Dritan Bitincka and Ledion Bitincka and is privately held.
- [CrowdStrike](https://techarda.com/vendors/crowdstrike): CrowdStrike is an American cybersecurity company founded in 2011 by George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch and Gregg Marston, and headquartered in Austin, Texas. Its cloud-native Falcon platform uses a single lightweight agent to provide endpoint protection, extended detection and response, identity protection, cloud security, next-gen SIEM and threat intelligence, with managed services. CrowdStrike is listed on Nasdaq (CRWD).
- [Cursor](https://techarda.com/vendors/cursor): Cursor is an AI-powered code editor developed by Anysphere, a San Francisco company founded in 2022 by Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark and Aman Sanger. Built as a fork of Visual Studio Code, Cursor integrates AI code completion, chat, codebase-aware editing and autonomous coding agents. SpaceX completed its acquisition of Anysphere in August 2026, and Cursor continues under its own brand.
- [CyberArk](https://techarda.com/vendors/cyberark): CyberArk is an identity security company founded in Israel in 1999 by Udi Mokady and Alon N. Cohen, with headquarters in Newton, Massachusetts, and Petah Tikva, Israel. Its Identity Security Platform spans privileged access management, secrets management, machine identity security, endpoint privilege management and workforce identity. Palo Alto Networks completed its acquisition of CyberArk in 2026, and CyberArk was delisted from Nasdaq.
- [Darktrace](https://techarda.com/vendors/darktrace): Darktrace is a British cybersecurity company founded in 2013 and headquartered in Cambridge, England. It uses self-learning AI that models normal behaviour in each organisation to detect and respond to threats across networks, email, cloud, endpoints, identities and operational technology. Darktrace was listed on the London Stock Exchange from 2021 until private equity firm Thoma Bravo completed its acquisition in 2024.
- [Databricks](https://techarda.com/vendors/databricks): Databricks is a data and AI company founded in 2013 by the creators of Apache Spark and headquartered in San Francisco. Its Data Intelligence Platform, built on a lakehouse architecture, combines data engineering, SQL warehousing, governance through Unity Catalog, and machine learning and generative AI tooling through Mosaic AI. Databricks created open-source projects including Delta Lake and MLflow and is privately held.
- [Datadog](https://techarda.com/vendors/datadog): Datadog is an American observability and security company founded in 2010 by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc and headquartered in New York City. Its SaaS platform provides infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, real user monitoring, synthetic testing, cloud security and incident management for cloud-scale applications. Datadog has been listed on Nasdaq (DDOG) since 2019.
- [Dataiku](https://techarda.com/vendors/dataiku): Dataiku is an enterprise AI and analytics platform company founded in Paris in 2013 by Florian Douetteau, Clément Stenac, Marc Batty and Thomas Cabrol, and now headquartered in New York City. Its platform, Dataiku DSS, lets data scientists, analysts and business users collaboratively prepare data, build machine learning models, develop generative AI applications and agents, and govern AI projects. Dataiku is privately held.
- [DataRobot](https://techarda.com/vendors/datarobot): DataRobot is an AI platform company founded in 2012 by Jeremy Achin and Tom de Godoy and based in Boston, Massachusetts. Known for pioneering automated machine learning (AutoML), it offers a platform for building, deploying, monitoring and governing predictive and generative AI models and AI agents across cloud and on-premises environments. DataRobot is privately held.
- [Dayforce](https://techarda.com/vendors/dayforce): Dayforce is a human capital management software company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its cloud platform, also named Dayforce, combines payroll, HR, workforce management, benefits and talent management on a single application with continuous payroll calculation. Formerly Ceridian HCM Holding Inc., the company renamed itself Dayforce in 2024. Thoma Bravo completed its acquisition of Dayforce in February 2026, taking the company private.
- [dbt Labs](https://techarda.com/vendors/dbt-labs): dbt Labs is the company behind dbt, a widely used tool for transforming data inside cloud data warehouses using SQL and software engineering practices such as version control and testing. Founded in 2016 as Fishtown Analytics by Tristan Handy, it offers open-source dbt Core and the commercial dbt platform. dbt Labs completed its merger with Fivetran on 1 June 2026, and the combined company operates as Fivetran + dbt Labs.
- [DDN](https://techarda.com/vendors/ddn): DDN (DataDirect Networks) is a data storage company founded in 1998 by Alex Bouzari and Paul Bloch and headquartered in Chatsworth, California. It builds high-performance storage for AI, high-performance computing and data-intensive workloads, including EXAScaler parallel file systems based on Lustre, AI400X appliances and the Infinia data intelligence platform. DDN also owns Tintri. The company is privately held.
- [Dell Technologies](https://techarda.com/vendors/dell-technologies): Dell Technologies is an American technology company headquartered in Round Rock, Texas. It sells PCs, servers, storage, networking and data protection products and services, including PowerEdge servers, PowerStore, PowerScale and PowerMax storage, PowerProtect data protection and the Dell AI Factory. Dell was founded by Michael Dell in 1984; Dell Technologies was formed in 2016 when Dell acquired EMC. It is listed on the NYSE (DELL).
- [Digi International](https://techarda.com/vendors/digi-international): Digi International is an American Internet of Things company founded in 1985 and headquartered in Hopkins, Minnesota. It provides IoT connectivity hardware, including cellular routers, gateways, embedded modules such as XBee, and console servers from its Opengear subsidiary, along with device management software such as Digi Remote Manager and IoT solutions. Digi International is listed on Nasdaq (DGII).
- [DigitalOcean](https://techarda.com/vendors/digitalocean): DigitalOcean is an American cloud infrastructure provider founded in 2011 by brothers Ben and Moisey Uretsky with Jeff Carr, Alec Hartman and Mitch Wainer. It offers simple, developer-focused cloud services including Droplet virtual machines, managed Kubernetes, managed databases, object storage, app hosting and GPU compute for AI workloads, targeting developers, startups and small and medium-sized businesses. DigitalOcean is listed on the NYSE (DOCN).
- [Docker](https://techarda.com/vendors/docker): Docker, Inc. is the company behind Docker, the software that popularised Linux containers for packaging and running applications. Founded as dotCloud by Solomon Hykes and launched Docker as open source in 2013, it is based in Palo Alto, California. Its products include Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, Docker Scout, Docker Build Cloud and Testcontainers, sold on subscription to developers and enterprises. Docker is privately held.
- [Domino Data Lab](https://techarda.com/vendors/domino-data-lab): Domino Data Lab is an enterprise AI platform company founded in 2013 by Nick Elprin, Chris Yang and Matthew Granade and headquartered in San Francisco. Its Domino platform gives data science teams a governed environment to build, deploy, monitor and manage machine learning and generative AI models across hybrid and multicloud infrastructure, and is used particularly in regulated industries such as life sciences, financial services and the public sector.
- [Domo](https://techarda.com/vendors/domo): Domo is an American cloud business intelligence and data platform company founded in 2010 by Josh James and headquartered in American Fork, Utah. Its platform combines data integration connectors, data transformation, dashboards and visualisation, app building, embedded analytics and AI features, letting business users build and share insights from many data sources. In September 2026 Progress Software completed its acquisition of Domo's AI and data platform business.
- [Dynatrace](https://techarda.com/vendors/dynatrace): Dynatrace is an observability and application security company founded in Linz, Austria, in 2005 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. Its AI-powered platform covers infrastructure and application monitoring, log analytics, digital experience monitoring, application security and automation, built on its Grail data lakehouse and Davis AI engine. Dynatrace has been listed on the NYSE (DT) since 2019.
- [Elastic](https://techarda.com/vendors/elastic): Elastic is the company behind Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash and Beats, collectively known as the Elastic Stack. Founded in 2012 by Shay Banon and others, it is incorporated in the Netherlands and operates as a distributed company with a US headquarters in San Francisco. It offers search, observability and security solutions, delivered via Elastic Cloud or self-managed. Elastic is listed on the NYSE (ESTC).
- [Emerson](https://techarda.com/vendors/emerson): Emerson is an American industrial automation technology company founded in 1890 and headquartered in the St. Louis, Missouri, area. It provides control systems, measurement instruments, valves, test and measurement equipment and industrial software, including DeltaV and Ovation control systems, Rosemount and Fisher products, NI test systems and AspenTech software. Emerson Electric Co. is listed on the NYSE (EMR).
- [env zero](https://techarda.com/vendors/env-zero): env zero, formerly env0, is an infrastructure-as-code automation, governance and cloud asset management platform for platform engineering and DevOps teams. It manages Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, CloudFormation and other IaC workflows with self-service environments, policy as code, cost controls and drift detection, and added cloud asset inventory through its March 2026 merger with CloudQuery. env zero is privately held.
- [Epicor](https://techarda.com/vendors/epicor): Epicor is an enterprise software company headquartered in Austin, Texas, providing industry-specific ERP and business management software for manufacturing, distribution, retail and automotive aftermarket businesses. Its products include Epicor Kinetic, Prophet 21, Eclipse and BisTrack, offered as cloud and on-premises solutions. Epicor is privately owned by investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, which acquired it from KKR in 2020.
- [Equinix](https://techarda.com/vendors/equinix): Equinix is a global digital infrastructure company founded in 1998 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. It operates International Business Exchange (IBX) colocation data centres in many metropolitan markets worldwide, along with interconnection services such as Equinix Fabric and Internet Exchange, and xScale hyperscale data centres. Equinix is structured as a real estate investment trust (REIT) and is listed on Nasdaq (EQIX).
- [Ericsson](https://techarda.com/vendors/ericsson): Ericsson is a Swedish telecommunications equipment and services company founded in 1876 by Lars Magnus Ericsson and headquartered in Stockholm. It supplies mobile network infrastructure, including 5G radio access networks, core networks and transport, along with network management software and services to communications service providers and enterprises. Ericsson also owns Vonage. It is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and Nasdaq New York (ERIC).
- [Everpure](https://techarda.com/vendors/everpure): Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) is a data storage company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, founded in 2009. It sells all-flash storage systems and software, including FlashArray block and file storage, FlashBlade unified file and object storage, the Purity operating environment, Portworx Kubernetes data services and Evergreen subscription models. Everpure is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
- [Extreme Networks](https://techarda.com/vendors/extreme-networks): Extreme Networks is an American networking company founded in 1996 and headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina. It provides enterprise wired and wireless networking, including switches, Wi-Fi access points, SD-WAN and network access control, managed through its ExtremeCloud IQ cloud platform and Extreme Platform ONE, which adds AI-driven networking and security operations. Extreme Networks is listed on Nasdaq (EXTR).
- [F5](https://techarda.com/vendors/f5): F5 is an American application delivery and security company founded in 1996 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It provides load balancing, web application and API protection, bot defence and multicloud networking through BIG-IP, NGINX and F5 Distributed Cloud Services, unified in its Application Delivery and Security Platform. Formerly F5 Networks, the company renamed itself F5, Inc. in 2021 and is listed on Nasdaq (FFIV).
- [Fastly](https://techarda.com/vendors/fastly): Fastly is an American edge cloud platform company founded in 2011 by Artur Bergman and headquartered in San Francisco. It provides a programmable content delivery network, edge compute based on WebAssembly, web application and API security, DDoS protection, bot management, image optimisation and observability services. Fastly is listed on the NYSE (FSLY).
- [Fivetran](https://techarda.com/vendors/fivetran): Fivetran is a US data integration company that provides fully managed, automated ELT pipelines. Its platform offers hundreds of prebuilt connectors that replicate data from SaaS applications, databases and files into cloud data warehouses and lakes such as Snowflake, Databricks and BigQuery. Founded in 2012, Fivetran completed its merger with dbt Labs on 1 June 2026; the combined company operates as Fivetran + dbt Labs.
- [Flexera](https://techarda.com/vendors/flexera): Flexera is a US software company that helps organisations manage and optimise technology spend across software licences, SaaS and public cloud. Its Flexera One platform covers IT asset management, FinOps and cloud cost optimisation, and technology intelligence. Headquartered in Itasca, Illinois, Flexera is privately held and has expanded through acquisitions including Snow Software and Spot from NetApp.
- [Fortinet](https://techarda.com/vendors/fortinet): Fortinet is a US cybersecurity company known for its FortiGate next-generation firewalls, built on its FortiOS operating system and custom security processors. Its Fortinet Security Fabric spans secure networking, SD-WAN, SASE, switching, wireless, endpoint and security operations. Founded in 2000 by Ken Xie and Michael Xie and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Fortinet is listed on Nasdaq.
- [Freshworks](https://techarda.com/vendors/freshworks): Freshworks is a SaaS company that provides customer service and IT service management software, including Freshdesk, Freshservice and Freshsales, with AI capabilities branded Freddy AI. It serves small, mid-sized and enterprise businesses. Founded in 2010 in Chennai, India, as Freshdesk by Girish Mathrubootham and Shan Krishnasamy, Freshworks is headquartered in San Mateo, California, and listed on Nasdaq.
- [Fujitsu](https://techarda.com/vendors/fujitsu): Fujitsu is a Japanese information and communications technology company providing IT services, consulting, servers, storage and advanced computing. It co-developed the Fugaku supercomputer with RIKEN, designed the Arm-based A64FX processor, and is developing the FUJITSU-MONAKA data centre CPU. Founded in 1935, Fujitsu serves enterprises and governments worldwide and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
- [GitHub](https://techarda.com/vendors/github): GitHub is a software development platform for hosting Git repositories and collaborating on code, used by developers, open source projects and enterprises. Its products include GitHub Actions for CI/CD, GitHub Copilot for AI-assisted coding, GitHub Advanced Security and Codespaces. Founded in 2008 and based in San Francisco, GitHub has been owned by Microsoft since 2018.
- [GitLab](https://techarda.com/vendors/gitlab): GitLab is a DevSecOps platform company whose single application covers source code management, CI/CD, security testing and software delivery, with AI features under GitLab Duo. Available as SaaS or self-managed and built on an open core model, it serves development and platform teams. GitLab Inc. was founded in 2014, operates all-remote and is listed on Nasdaq.
- [Glean](https://techarda.com/vendors/glean): Glean is a US enterprise AI company that provides a work AI platform combining enterprise search, an AI assistant and AI agents grounded in a company's own data and permissions. It connects to applications such as Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, Salesforce and Jira. Founded in 2019 by former Google engineer Arvind Jain, Glean is headquartered in Palo Alto and privately held.
- [Google Cloud](https://techarda.com/vendors/google-cloud): Google Cloud is the cloud computing business of Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. It offers Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and services including Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, BigQuery, Spanner and the Vertex AI platform with Gemini models, as well as Google Workspace. It serves enterprises, public sector organisations and startups through global cloud regions.
- [Grafana Labs](https://techarda.com/vendors/grafana-labs): Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana, the open source visualisation and dashboarding tool, and the LGTM observability stack of Loki, Grafana, Tempo and Mimir. It sells Grafana Cloud and Grafana Enterprise for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, load testing with k6 and incident response. Founded in 2014 and operating remote-first, Grafana Labs is privately held.
- [Graphcore](https://techarda.com/vendors/graphcore): Graphcore is a British semiconductor company that designs the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), a processor architecture for machine learning, together with the Poplar software stack. Its products include the Bow IPU and IPU-POD systems for AI training and inference. Founded in 2016 by Nigel Toon and Simon Knowles and based in Bristol, Graphcore was acquired by SoftBank Group in 2024.
- [Groq](https://techarda.com/vendors/groq): Groq is a US AI chip and inference company that designed the Language Processing Unit (LPU), a deterministic processor built for fast, low-latency inference of large language models. It offers GroqCloud, an API platform serving open models, and GroqRack on-premises systems. Groq was founded in 2016 by Jonathan Ross, a co-creator of Google's TPU, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
- [H2O.ai](https://techarda.com/vendors/h2o-ai): H2O.ai is a US AI company known for H2O, its open source distributed machine learning platform, and for Driverless AI, its automated machine learning product. Its H2O AI Cloud and Enterprise h2oGPTe offerings support predictive and generative AI in the cloud or on-premises, serving financial services, insurance, healthcare and public sector organisations. It was founded in 2012 as 0xdata.
- [Harness](https://techarda.com/vendors/harness): Harness is a US software delivery platform company offering AI-assisted continuous integration, continuous delivery and GitOps, feature management, cloud cost management, security testing, chaos engineering and an internal developer portal. It serves engineering and platform teams in enterprises. Founded in 2017 by Jyoti Bansal, co-founder of AppDynamics, Harness is headquartered in San Francisco and privately held.
- [HashiCorp](https://techarda.com/vendors/hashicorp): HashiCorp is a US infrastructure software company known for Terraform for infrastructure as code and Vault for secrets management, alongside Consul, Nomad, Packer, Vagrant and Boundary. It offers these through HashiCorp Cloud Platform and self-managed enterprise editions. Founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar in San Francisco, HashiCorp was acquired by IBM in 2025.
- [Hetzner](https://techarda.com/vendors/hetzner): Hetzner is a German web hosting and cloud infrastructure provider offering dedicated servers, Hetzner Cloud virtual servers, storage, colocation and web hosting at relatively low prices. It operates its own data centres in Germany and Finland, with cloud locations in the United States and Singapore. Founded in 1997 by Martin Hetzner, Hetzner Online GmbH is headquartered in Gunzenhausen, Bavaria, and privately owned.
- [Hitachi Vantara](https://techarda.com/vendors/hitachi-vantara): Hitachi Vantara is the data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud subsidiary of Japan's Hitachi, Ltd. It sells the Virtual Storage Platform (VSP One) family of block, file and object storage, Hitachi Content Platform, data protection software and managed services. Formed in 2017 from Hitachi Data Systems and related units, Hitachi Vantara is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
- [Honeycomb](https://techarda.com/vendors/honeycomb): Honeycomb is a US observability company whose platform lets engineering teams query high-cardinality, high-dimensionality event and trace data to debug production systems. It is built around OpenTelemetry and offers distributed tracing, service-level objectives, BubbleUp anomaly analysis and log analysis. Honeycomb was founded in 2016 by Charity Majors and Christine Yen, is based in San Francisco and is privately held.
- [Honeywell Technologies](https://techarda.com/vendors/honeywell): Honeywell Technologies is the name under which Honeywell operates as a pure-play automation company following the June 2026 spin-off of Honeywell Aerospace. Its industrial IoT and edge offerings include Honeywell Forge software, Experion process control systems, building management platforms and connected sensors and devices. With roots dating to 1906, Honeywell Technologies is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and listed on Nasdaq.
- [HPE](https://techarda.com/vendors/hpe): HPE, the primary brand of Hewlett Packard Enterprise since June 2025, is a US enterprise technology company that sells servers, storage, networking and hybrid cloud services, including the HPE GreenLake cloud platform. Formed in 2015 when Hewlett-Packard split in two, HPE focuses on edge-to-cloud infrastructure and AI, and it expanded its networking business by acquiring Juniper Networks in July 2025.
- [Huawei](https://techarda.com/vendors/huawei): Huawei is a Chinese technology company that makes telecommunications and enterprise networking equipment, consumer devices, cloud services, data storage and AI processors. Its portfolio includes 5G and optical network infrastructure, CloudEngine switches, OceanStor storage, Huawei Cloud and Ascend AI chips. Founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei and headquartered in Shenzhen, Huawei is privately held and employee-owned through a trade union structure.
- [HubSpot](https://techarda.com/vendors/hubspot): HubSpot is a US software company that provides an AI-powered customer platform for marketing, sales, customer service, content and operations, built around a shared CRM. Its products include Marketing Hub, Sales Hub, Service Hub, Content Hub, Data Hub and Commerce Hub, with AI features branded Breeze. Founded in 2006 by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah, HubSpot is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and listed on the NYSE.
- [Hugging Face](https://techarda.com/vendors/hugging-face): Hugging Face is an AI company that runs the Hugging Face Hub, a platform hosting open machine learning models, datasets and demo applications (Spaces), and maintains open source libraries such as Transformers, Diffusers and Datasets. Founded in 2016 by Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf, it has offices in New York and Paris and in 2026 agreed to be acquired by NVIDIA for about US$12.9 billion.
- [Humanitec](https://techarda.com/vendors/humanitec): Humanitec is a Berlin-based platform engineering company that provides the Humanitec Platform Orchestrator, a backend for building internal developer platforms that standardises how applications and infrastructure are configured and deployed. It created Score, an open source workload specification, and organises PlatformCon, a platform engineering conference. Humanitec serves enterprise platform teams and is privately held.
- [IBM](https://techarda.com/vendors/ibm): IBM is a US technology company providing hybrid cloud and AI software, infrastructure and consulting. Its portfolio includes Red Hat OpenShift, the watsonx AI and data platform, IBM Z mainframes and Power servers, IBM Storage, Db2 databases, and automation and observability software such as Instana and HashiCorp Terraform. Founded in 1911 and headquartered in Armonk, New York, IBM is listed on the NYSE.
- [IFS](https://techarda.com/vendors/ifs): IFS is a Swedish enterprise software company providing IFS Cloud, a single platform for enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise asset management (EAM) and field service management (FSM), with industrial AI capabilities. It serves asset-intensive and service-centric industries such as aerospace and defence, energy and utilities, manufacturing and construction. Founded in 1983 in Linköping, Sweden, IFS is privately owned by investors including EQT and Hg.
- [InfluxData](https://techarda.com/vendors/influxdata): InfluxData is a US software company that created InfluxDB, an open source time series database, and the Telegraf data collection agent. It sells InfluxDB Cloud and self-managed InfluxDB 3 Enterprise for storing and analysing metrics, events and sensor data in IoT, industrial, observability and real-time analytics use cases. Founded in 2012 by Paul Dix and Todd Persen, InfluxData is privately held.
- [Infoblox](https://techarda.com/vendors/infoblox): Infoblox is a US networking and security company specialising in DDI, the combination of DNS, DHCP and IP address management, and DNS-based security. Its products include NIOS appliances, Universal DDI for hybrid and multicloud networks, and Threat Defense for protective DNS. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Infoblox is privately held.
- [Infor](https://techarda.com/vendors/infor): Infor is a US enterprise software company that provides industry-specific cloud ERP and business applications, sold as CloudSuites for sectors such as manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, hospitality and the public sector. Its products run on the Infor OS platform and AWS. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in New York City, Infor has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries since 2020.
- [Informatica](https://techarda.com/vendors/informatica): Informatica is a US enterprise data management company whose Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) covers data integration, data quality, master data management, data catalog and governance, powered by its CLAIRE AI engine. It serves large enterprises across industries. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, Informatica was acquired by Salesforce in 2025.
- [Intel](https://techarda.com/vendors/intel): Intel is a US semiconductor company that designs and manufactures x86 processors, including Xeon data centre CPUs and Core client processors, along with Gaudi AI accelerators, networking and edge computing products. Through Intel Foundry it also manufactures chips for external customers. Founded in 1968 by Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Intel is listed on Nasdaq.
- [JetBrains](https://techarda.com/vendors/jetbrains): JetBrains is a software company that makes integrated development environments and developer tools, including IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, Rider, GoLand and CLion, the TeamCity CI/CD server and the YouTrack issue tracker. It created the Kotlin programming language and offers AI Assistant and the Junie coding agent. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Prague, JetBrains is privately held.
- [JFrog](https://techarda.com/vendors/jfrog): JFrog is a software supply chain company whose JFrog Platform manages and secures software packages and binaries from development to production. Its products include JFrog Artifactory, a universal artifact repository, JFrog Xray and Advanced Security for vulnerability and licence scanning, JFrog Curation and JFrog ML. Founded in 2008 in Israel, JFrog is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and listed on Nasdaq.
- [Kentik](https://techarda.com/vendors/kentik): Kentik is a US network observability company whose SaaS platform analyses flow data, device metrics, cloud flow logs, routing and synthetic test results to help teams monitor, troubleshoot and secure networks. It serves enterprises, cloud-native companies and service providers, with traffic analytics, DDoS detection, cloud network visibility and capacity planning. Founded in 2014, Kentik was acquired by Infoblox in August 2026.
- [Kong](https://techarda.com/vendors/kong): Kong is an API management and connectivity company known for Kong Gateway, an open-source API gateway, and Kong Konnect, its cloud-hosted API platform. It also develops Kong Mesh and the Insomnia API client, serving developers and platform teams. Founded in 2009 as Mashape and renamed Kong in 2017, the privately held company is headquartered in San Francisco.
- [Kore.ai](https://techarda.com/vendors/kore-ai): Kore.ai is an enterprise conversational and agentic AI company that provides a platform for building, deploying and managing AI agents and virtual assistants. Its offerings include the Kore.ai Agent Platform and prebuilt solutions for customer service, employee productivity and process automation, used by enterprises in sectors such as banking and healthcare. Founded in 2014 by Raj Koneru, it is headquartered in Orlando, Florida.
- [Kyndryl](https://techarda.com/vendors/kyndryl): Kyndryl is an IT infrastructure services company that designs, runs and modernises mission-critical systems for large enterprises, covering cloud, applications, data and AI, networking, security and resilience, and mainframe services. Formed in 2021 through the spin-off of IBM's managed infrastructure services business, Kyndryl is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and headquartered in New York City.
- [Lambda](https://techarda.com/vendors/lambda): Lambda is an AI infrastructure company that provides GPU cloud computing for training and running AI models, including on-demand instances, reserved clusters and private cloud capacity based on NVIDIA GPUs. It also offers the Lambda Stack software distribution and has sold GPU workstations and servers. Formerly known as Lambda Labs, the company was founded in 2012 by Stephen and Michael Balaban.
- [LangChain](https://techarda.com/vendors/langchain): LangChain is a software company that develops open-source frameworks and commercial tooling for building applications and agents on large language models. Its products include the LangChain and LangGraph frameworks for Python and JavaScript and LangSmith, a platform for tracing, evaluating and deploying LLM applications. LangChain began as an open-source project by Harrison Chase in 2022 and is based in San Francisco.
- [LaunchDarkly](https://techarda.com/vendors/launchdarkly): LaunchDarkly is a feature management and experimentation platform that lets software teams release features behind feature flags, roll out changes progressively, run experiments and roll back without redeploying code. It provides SDKs for major languages and serves engineering and product teams at enterprises and software companies. Founded in 2014 by Edith Harbaugh and John Kodumal, it is headquartered in Oakland, California.
- [Lenovo](https://techarda.com/vendors/lenovo): Lenovo is a multinational technology company that makes PCs, smartphones, servers, storage and IT services. Its Infrastructure Solutions Group sells ThinkSystem servers, ThinkAgile hyperconverged systems, ThinkSystem storage and Neptune liquid-cooled systems for HPC and AI. Founded in Beijing in 1984, Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and acquired IBM's PC business in 2005 and x86 server business in 2014.
- [LogicMonitor](https://techarda.com/vendors/logicmonitor): LogicMonitor is a SaaS observability company whose LM Envision platform monitors hybrid IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, cloud services, containers, applications and logs, with AI-driven event correlation through its Edwin AI product. It serves enterprise IT and operations teams and managed service providers. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, it is privately held and backed by Vista Equity Partners.
- [MariaDB](https://techarda.com/vendors/mariadb): MariaDB is the company behind the commercial MariaDB Enterprise Platform, built around MariaDB Server, an open-source relational database created as a fork of MySQL. It sells enterprise database subscriptions, the MaxScale database proxy and support to organisations running transactional workloads. The company traces its origins to SkySQL, founded in 2010, and was taken private by K1 Investment Management in 2024 after a period listed on the NYSE.
- [Megaport](https://techarda.com/vendors/megaport): Megaport is a Network as a Service (NaaS) provider that offers on-demand, software-defined connectivity between data centres, public clouds and enterprise locations. Its portfolio includes Ports, Virtual Cross Connects, Megaport Cloud Router, Megaport Virtual Edge and Megaport Internet, with direct links to AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle. Founded in 2013 by Bevan Slattery, Megaport is listed on the ASX and headquartered in Brisbane.
- [Microsoft](https://techarda.com/vendors/microsoft): Microsoft is a global technology company whose enterprise portfolio spans the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft 365 productivity software, Dynamics 365 business applications, security products and developer tools such as GitHub. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is one of the largest providers of cloud and AI services to businesses.
- [MinIO](https://techarda.com/vendors/minio): MinIO is a software company that develops high-performance, S3-compatible object storage designed for private cloud, hybrid cloud and AI data workloads. Its commercial product, AIStor, targets large-scale analytics and machine learning data lakes, while the original MinIO server is licensed under the GNU AGPLv3. MinIO was founded in 2014 by Anand Babu Periasamy, Garima Kapoor and Harshavardhana.
- [Mirantis](https://techarda.com/vendors/mirantis): Mirantis is a cloud-native infrastructure company offering Kubernetes and container platforms, OpenStack and open-source tooling, including Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, Mirantis Container Runtime, k0rdent for multi-cluster platform engineering, k0s and Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Campbell, California, Mirantis acquired the Docker Enterprise business in 2019 and was acquired by AI cloud provider IREN in August 2026.
- [Mistral AI](https://techarda.com/vendors/mistral-ai): Mistral AI is a French artificial intelligence company that develops large language models, including open-weight and commercial models such as Mistral Large, Mistral Medium, Mistral Small, Codestral and Magistral. It offers models via its La Plateforme API, the Le Chat assistant and deployments on major clouds and on premises. Mistral AI was founded in Paris in 2023 by Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix.
- [MongoDB](https://techarda.com/vendors/mongodb): MongoDB is a database software company best known for MongoDB, a document-oriented NoSQL database, and MongoDB Atlas, its fully managed multicloud database service with integrated search and vector search. It serves developers and enterprises building operational and AI applications. Founded in 2007 as 10gen and headquartered in New York City, MongoDB is listed on Nasdaq and acquired embedding model provider Voyage AI in 2025.
- [Neo4j](https://techarda.com/vendors/neo4j): Neo4j is a graph database and analytics company whose flagship Neo4j graph database stores and queries connected data using the Cypher query language. Its offerings include AuraDB, a fully managed cloud service, Graph Data Science for graph algorithms and machine learning, and tooling for GraphRAG and knowledge graphs. Founded in Sweden in 2007 as Neo Technology, it is headquartered in San Mateo, California.
- [NetApp](https://techarda.com/vendors/netapp): NetApp is a data infrastructure company that sells unified storage systems, data management software and cloud storage services. Its ONTAP operating system powers AFF and FAS arrays and first-party cloud services such as Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Azure NetApp Files and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. Founded in 1992 as Network Appliance, NetApp is listed on Nasdaq and headquartered in San Jose, California.
- [Netlify](https://techarda.com/vendors/netlify): Netlify is a cloud platform for building, deploying and hosting web applications and websites. It provides Git-based continuous deployment, a global edge network, serverless and edge functions, and deploy previews for frontend teams using frameworks such as Next.js, Astro and Remix. Netlify was founded in 2014 by Mathias Biilmann and Christian Bach and is headquartered in San Francisco.
- [Netskope](https://techarda.com/vendors/netskope): Netskope is a cybersecurity company that provides cloud-delivered Security Service Edge (SSE) and SASE through its Netskope One platform, combining secure web gateway, CASB, zero trust network access, data loss prevention, firewall and SD-WAN capabilities on its NewEdge private network. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Netskope listed on Nasdaq in 2025.
- [New Relic](https://techarda.com/vendors/new-relic): New Relic is an observability company that provides a SaaS platform for monitoring applications, infrastructure, logs, browsers, mobile apps and AI workloads. Its all-in-one platform combines telemetry data with APM, distributed tracing, dashboards and alerting under usage-based pricing. Founded in 2008 by Lew Cirne, New Relic is headquartered in San Francisco and was taken private by Francisco Partners and TPG in 2023.
- [Nokia](https://techarda.com/vendors/nokia): Nokia is a Finnish telecommunications equipment and technology company that supplies mobile, IP, optical and fixed network infrastructure to communications service providers and enterprises. Its portfolio includes 5G radio and core networks, IP routers, data centre networking, optical transport and private wireless, plus a patent licensing business. Founded in 1865 and headquartered in Espoo, Nokia acquired Infinera in 2025.
- [Nutanix](https://techarda.com/vendors/nutanix): Nutanix is a hybrid multicloud software company whose Nutanix Cloud Platform combines hyperconverged compute and storage, the AHV hypervisor, unified file and object storage, Kubernetes management and database services. It serves enterprises running applications across data centres, edge sites and public clouds, including through NC2 on AWS and Azure. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Nutanix is listed on Nasdaq.
- [NVIDIA](https://techarda.com/vendors/nvidia): NVIDIA is a semiconductor and computing platform company that designs GPUs, CPUs, networking and software for AI, data centres, gaming, professional visualisation and automotive. Its data centre portfolio includes Hopper and Blackwell GPUs, Grace CPUs, DGX systems, InfiniBand and Spectrum-X Ethernet networking, and the CUDA and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software stacks. Founded in 1993, NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and listed on Nasdaq.
- [Octopus Deploy](https://techarda.com/vendors/octopus-deploy): Octopus Deploy is an Australian software company that makes a continuous delivery and release management platform for automating deployments and runbooks across on-premises, cloud and Kubernetes environments. Its products include Octopus Deploy, available as Octopus Cloud or self-hosted Octopus Server, and Codefresh, a GitOps platform built on Argo CD. Founded in 2012 by Paul Stovell, it is headquartered in Brisbane.
- [Okta](https://techarda.com/vendors/okta): Okta is an identity and access management company that provides cloud-based single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, lifecycle management and identity governance for workforces, and customer identity through Auth0. It serves enterprises, public sector organisations and developers securing access to applications and AI agents. Founded in 2009 by Todd McKinnon and Frederic Kerrest, Okta is headquartered in San Francisco and listed on Nasdaq.
- [OpenAI](https://techarda.com/vendors/openai): OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research and deployment company that develops the GPT family of large language models, reasoning models, image, video and speech models, and the ChatGPT assistant. It sells access through ChatGPT consumer and business plans and the OpenAI API, which includes tools for building agents. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, OpenAI counts Microsoft as a major investor and partner.
- [Oracle](https://techarda.com/vendors/oracle): Oracle is an enterprise software and cloud company known for Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, NetSuite, MySQL and Java. It serves enterprises and governments with databases, ERP, HCM and industry applications, and cloud infrastructure for AI training and inference. Founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates, Oracle is listed on the NYSE and headquartered in Austin, Texas.
- [OVHcloud](https://techarda.com/vendors/ovhcloud): OVHcloud is a French cloud provider offering bare-metal dedicated servers, public cloud, private cloud based on VMware and other hypervisors, web hosting, domains and managed Kubernetes. It designs its own servers and operates data centres in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, positioning around data sovereignty. Founded in 1999 by Octave Klaba and headquartered in Roubaix, France, it is listed on Euronext Paris.
- [PagerDuty](https://techarda.com/vendors/pagerduty): PagerDuty is a digital operations management company whose PagerDuty Operations Cloud provides incident management, on-call scheduling and alerting, AIOps event correlation, runbook and process automation, and customer service operations. It serves engineering, IT operations and support teams responding to incidents in critical systems. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, PagerDuty is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
- [Palo Alto Networks](https://techarda.com/vendors/palo-alto-networks): Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company offering network security, cloud security and security operations platforms. Its portfolio includes next-generation firewalls and Strata network security, Prisma SASE and Prisma Cloud, Cortex XSIAM, XDR and Cortex Cloud, and Unit 42 threat intelligence and incident response. Founded in 2005 by Nir Zuk, it is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and listed on Nasdaq.
- [Particle](https://techarda.com/vendors/particle): Particle is an IoT platform company that provides connected hardware modules, cellular connectivity and cloud software for building, deploying and managing fleets of connected devices. Its offerings include Wi-Fi and cellular development boards and system-on-modules, Device OS, the Particle Device Cloud and over-the-air updates. Founded in 2012 by Zach Supalla, originally as Spark, Particle was acquired by Digi International in January 2026.
- [Pegasystems](https://techarda.com/vendors/pegasystems): Pegasystems, known as Pega, is an enterprise software company whose Pega Platform provides low-code workflow automation, case management, decisioning and generative AI for large organisations. Its offerings include Pega Infinity, Pega GenAI Blueprint for designing applications, Pega Customer Decision Hub and Pega Customer Service, used heavily in financial services, insurance, healthcare and government. Founded in 1983 by Alan Trefler, Pega is listed on Nasdaq.
- [Penguin Solutions](https://techarda.com/vendors/penguin-solutions): Penguin Solutions is a technology company that designs, builds, deploys and manages high-performance computing and AI infrastructure, and also sells specialty memory and LED products. Formerly SMART Global Holdings (SGH), the company adopted the Penguin Solutions name in 2024. Its portfolio includes Penguin Computing HPC and AI clusters, cluster management software, SMART Modular memory solutions and related services for enterprises, research institutions and government.
- [Perforce](https://techarda.com/vendors/perforce): Perforce is a DevOps software company offering version control, infrastructure automation, testing, static analysis and test data management tools. Its portfolio includes P4 (formerly Helix Core) version control, Puppet, Delphix, BlazeMeter, Perfecto, Klocwork and Helix ALM, used heavily in game development, embedded and regulated industries. Founded in 1995 by Christopher Seiwald, Perforce is privately owned by Clearlake Capital and Francisco Partners and headquartered in Minneapolis.
- [Pinecone](https://techarda.com/vendors/pinecone): Pinecone is a vector database company that provides a fully managed, serverless vector database for storing and searching embeddings in AI applications such as retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search and recommendations. Its offerings include Pinecone serverless indexes, integrated embedding and reranking inference, and Pinecone Assistant. Founded in 2019 by Edo Liberty, Pinecone is headquartered in New York City.
- [PlanetScale](https://techarda.com/vendors/planetscale): PlanetScale is a cloud database company offering managed MySQL built on Vitess, the open-source sharding system originally developed at YouTube, and managed PostgreSQL. It provides horizontal scaling, non-blocking schema changes, database branching and PlanetScale Metal, which runs databases on locally attached NVMe storage. PlanetScale was founded in 2018 by Vitess co-creator Sugu Sougoumarane and Jiten Vaidya.
- [Platform9](https://techarda.com/vendors/platform9): Platform9 is a cloud infrastructure software company that provides private cloud and Kubernetes management delivered as a SaaS-managed service. Its products include Private Cloud Director, positioned as an alternative to VMware virtualisation, and Platform9 Managed Kubernetes for running clusters across data centres, edge and public clouds. Platform9 was founded in 2013 by former VMware engineers.
- [Port](https://techarda.com/vendors/port): Port is a software company that makes an internal developer portal for platform engineering teams. Its product combines a software catalogue, self-service actions, scorecards and dashboards so developers can find services, provision resources and follow engineering standards. Port was founded in 2022 by Zohar Einy and Yonatan Boguslavski and has roots in Israel.
- [Portainer](https://techarda.com/vendors/portainer): Portainer is a container management platform from Portainer.io, a company based in Auckland, New Zealand. Its graphical and API-driven tooling lets teams deploy, operate and secure containerised applications across Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes and Podman environments, including edge devices. Portainer offers an open-source Community Edition and a commercially supported Business Edition.
- [Postman](https://techarda.com/vendors/postman): Postman is an API platform company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its flagship Postman application lets developers design, test, document, mock and monitor APIs, and its API Network is a catalogue of public APIs. Postman began as a side project by Abhinav Asthana in 2012, was incorporated in 2014, and has significant engineering operations in Bengaluru, India.
- [Progress Software](https://techarda.com/vendors/progress): Progress Software is a US software company headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, founded in 1981. It sells infrastructure and application development software including the Chef DevOps automation suite, OpenEdge, Telerik and Kendo UI developer tools, MOVEit managed file transfer, Sitefinity, MarkLogic and ShareFile. Progress is listed on Nasdaq and grows substantially through acquisitions of established software products.
- [Proofpoint](https://techarda.com/vendors/proofpoint): Proofpoint is a cybersecurity company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2002. It focuses on human-centric security, with products for email security, security awareness training, data loss prevention, insider threat management, identity threat defence and information archiving. Proofpoint was taken private by Thoma Bravo in 2021 and serves enterprises and government organisations worldwide.
- [PTC](https://techarda.com/vendors/ptc): PTC is a US industrial software company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1985 as Parametric Technology Corporation. It sells product lifecycle and engineering software including Creo CAD, Windchill PLM, Onshape, Codebeamer and ServiceMax, and sold its ThingWorx and Kepware industrial IoT businesses to TPG in March 2026. PTC serves manufacturers and is listed on Nasdaq.
- [Pulumi](https://techarda.com/vendors/pulumi): Pulumi is an infrastructure-as-code company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, founded in 2017 by Joe Duffy and Eric Rudder. Its open-source Pulumi IaC tool lets engineers define cloud infrastructure in general-purpose languages such as TypeScript, Python, Go, C# and Java. The commercial Pulumi Cloud adds state management, policy, secrets management (Pulumi ESC) and platform engineering features.
- [Qlik](https://techarda.com/vendors/qlik): Qlik is a data integration, analytics and AI company founded in Lund, Sweden, in 1993 and headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Its products include Qlik Sense and QlikView for business intelligence, Qlik Talend Cloud for data integration and quality, and Qlik Answers for generative AI. Qlik has been privately owned by Thoma Bravo since 2016.
- [Qualcomm](https://techarda.com/vendors/qualcomm): Qualcomm is a US semiconductor and wireless technology company headquartered in San Diego, California, founded in 1985. It designs Snapdragon system-on-chips, 5G modems and RF systems for smartphones, PCs, vehicles and IoT devices, and licenses its extensive portfolio of cellular patents. Qualcomm also sells edge AI platforms and Cloud AI inference accelerators, and is listed on Nasdaq.
- [Qualys](https://techarda.com/vendors/qualys): Qualys is a cloud-based cybersecurity and compliance company headquartered in Foster City, California, founded in 1999. Its Qualys Cloud Platform provides vulnerability management (VMDR), asset inventory, patch management, cloud security (TotalCloud), web application scanning, policy compliance and risk management through its Enterprise TruRisk Platform. Qualys is listed on Nasdaq.
- [Qumulo](https://techarda.com/vendors/qumulo): Qumulo is a data storage software company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, founded in 2012. It develops a scale-out file and data platform for large volumes of unstructured data that runs on commodity hardware from multiple server vendors and natively in public clouds such as AWS and Microsoft Azure. Qumulo serves media, research, healthcare and other data-intensive organisations.
- [Rackspace Technology](https://techarda.com/vendors/rackspace): Rackspace Technology is a US managed cloud and IT services company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, founded in 1998. It designs, migrates and operates workloads on AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and private cloud infrastructure, and provides managed hosting, security and application services. Rackspace is majority-owned by funds managed by Apollo Global Management and is listed on Nasdaq.
- [Rafay](https://techarda.com/vendors/rafay): Rafay is a US software company, formally Rafay Systems, that sells a platform for operating Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure at scale. Its platform-as-a-service offering provides cluster lifecycle management, governance, self-service environments and GPU and AI workload management for enterprise platform teams and cloud providers, across public clouds, data centres and edge locations.
- [Rapid7](https://techarda.com/vendors/rapid7): Rapid7 is a US cybersecurity company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2000. It sells the Command Platform for exposure management and threat detection and response, including InsightVM vulnerability management, InsightIDR SIEM/XDR, cloud security and managed detection and response services. Rapid7 also maintains the Metasploit penetration testing framework and is listed on Nasdaq.
- [Red Hat](https://techarda.com/vendors/red-hat): Red Hat is an enterprise open source software company best known for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the Red Hat OpenShift hybrid cloud application platform and Ansible Automation Platform. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, Red Hat has operated as an independent subsidiary of IBM since IBM acquired it in 2019.
- [Redis](https://techarda.com/vendors/redis): Redis is the software company behind the Redis in-memory data store, founded in 2011 as Garantia Data and later known as Redis Labs. It sells Redis Cloud, a fully managed database service, and Redis Software for self-managed deployments. Redis is used for caching, real-time data, messaging, session storage and vector search for AI applications. The company is privately held.
- [Replit](https://techarda.com/vendors/replit): Replit is a US software company that provides a browser-based development environment and AI app-building platform. Founded in 2016 by Amjad Masad, Faris Masad and Haya Odeh, Replit lets users create, run, collaborate on and deploy software without local setup, and its Replit Agent builds applications from natural-language prompts. It serves individual developers, students, non-developers and businesses.
- [Rockwell Automation](https://techarda.com/vendors/rockwell-automation): Rockwell Automation is a US industrial automation and digital transformation company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with roots in the Allen-Bradley company founded in 1903. It sells Allen-Bradley programmable logic controllers, drives, motion and safety products, FactoryTalk industrial software, Plex manufacturing execution systems and Fiix maintenance software. Rockwell Automation is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
- [Rubrik](https://techarda.com/vendors/rubrik): Rubrik is a cybersecurity and data protection company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2014. Its Rubrik Security Cloud combines backup and recovery, immutable data protection, data security posture management, threat detection and cyber recovery across enterprise, cloud and SaaS data. Rubrik listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2024.
- [Sage](https://techarda.com/vendors/sage): Sage is a British software company, The Sage Group plc, headquartered in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and founded in 1981. It sells accounting, financial management, payroll and HR software to small and medium-sized businesses, including Sage Intacct, Sage Accounting, Sage 50, Sage 200, Sage X3 and Sage HR. Sage is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
- [Salesforce](https://techarda.com/vendors/salesforce): Salesforce is a US enterprise software company headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded in 1999. It sells customer relationship management (CRM) applications including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Marketing Cloud, the Agentforce AI agent platform, Data Cloud, Tableau analytics, MuleSoft integration, Slack and Informatica data management. Salesforce is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
- [SambaNova](https://techarda.com/vendors/sambanova): SambaNova, formally SambaNova Systems, is an AI computing company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2017. It designs Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU) processors, such as the SN40L, and sells full-stack AI inference systems and services, including SambaNova Cloud for fast inference of open-source large language models and on-premises SambaStack deployments. It is privately held and venture-backed.
- [Samsara](https://techarda.com/vendors/samsara): Samsara is a US industrial IoT company headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded in 2015 by Sanjit Biswas and John Bicket. Its Connected Operations Platform combines vehicle telematics, AI dash cams, equipment and asset tracking, site visibility and workflow applications for fleets and physical operations in transportation, construction, field services, utilities and the public sector. Samsara is listed on the NYSE.
- [SAP](https://techarda.com/vendors/sap): SAP is a German enterprise software company, SAP SE, headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, and founded in 1972. It sells enterprise resource planning software, notably SAP S/4HANA Cloud, along with the SAP HANA database, SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Business Data Cloud, the Joule AI copilot and agents, SuccessFactors, Ariba, Concur and Signavio. SAP is listed in Frankfurt and on the NYSE.
- [SAS](https://techarda.com/vendors/sas): SAS, formally SAS Institute Inc., is a US analytics and AI software company headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, founded in 1976. Its flagship SAS Viya cloud-native platform provides data management, statistical analysis, machine learning, decisioning, model governance and generative AI tools. SAS serves banking, government, life sciences, insurance and other regulated industries, and is privately held.
- [Scale AI](https://techarda.com/vendors/scale-ai): Scale AI is a US artificial intelligence data company headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded in 2016 by Alexandr Wang and Lucy Guo. It provides training data, data labelling, reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and model evaluation services to AI developers, enterprises and governments. In 2025 Meta invested in a 49% stake, and Wang joined Meta.
- [Scaleway](https://techarda.com/vendors/scaleway): Scaleway is a French cloud provider headquartered in Paris and owned by the Iliad Group. It offers public cloud infrastructure including virtual instances, bare-metal servers, GPU compute, managed Kubernetes, object storage, databases, serverless and AI inference services from data centres in Europe. Scaleway positions itself as a European sovereign cloud alternative to US hyperscalers.
- [Schneider Electric](https://techarda.com/vendors/schneider-electric): Schneider Electric is a French multinational energy management and industrial automation company, Schneider Electric SE, headquartered in Rueil-Malmaison, France, with origins in 1836. It sells the EcoStruxure IoT-enabled architecture, Modicon controllers, APC uninterruptible power supplies, data centre power and cooling, and AVEVA industrial software. Schneider Electric is listed on Euronext Paris.
- [SentinelOne](https://techarda.com/vendors/sentinelone): SentinelOne is a US cybersecurity company headquartered in Mountain View, California, founded in 2013. Its Singularity Platform provides AI-driven endpoint protection, extended detection and response (XDR), cloud security, identity threat detection and AI SIEM, with Purple AI as a generative AI security analyst. SentinelOne serves enterprises and governments and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
- [Sentry](https://techarda.com/vendors/sentry): Sentry is an application monitoring company headquartered in San Francisco, California, operated by Functional Software, Inc. Its developer-first platform provides error tracking, performance tracing, session replay, profiling, cron and uptime monitoring, and the Seer AI debugging agent. Sentry began as an open-source project in 2008, was founded as a company in 2012, and also owns code coverage tool Codecov.
- [ServiceNow](https://techarda.com/vendors/servicenow): ServiceNow is a US enterprise software company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, founded in 2004 by Fred Luddy. Its ServiceNow AI Platform automates workflows across IT service management, IT operations, security, customer service, HR and field service, with AI agents, low-code app building and observability capabilities. ServiceNow is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
- [Siemens](https://techarda.com/vendors/siemens): Siemens is a German technology company, Siemens AG, headquartered in Munich and founded in 1847. Its Digital Industries business sells SIMATIC automation and Industrial Edge products, Siemens Xcelerator software including Teamcenter, NX and Insights Hub, and Altair simulation software; other businesses cover smart infrastructure and rail. Siemens is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
- [Sierra](https://techarda.com/vendors/sierra): Sierra is a US artificial intelligence company headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded in 2023 by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor. It builds conversational AI agents that handle customer service and customer experience interactions for businesses across chat, voice and other channels, using its Agent OS platform and agent development tools. Sierra is privately held and venture-backed.
- [SingleStore](https://techarda.com/vendors/singlestore): SingleStore is a database company headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded in 2011 as MemSQL. Its distributed SQL database combines transactional and analytical processing, with in-memory rowstore and disk-based columnstore tables, vector and full-text search for real-time applications and AI. SingleStore Helios is its fully managed cloud service; the company is privately held.
- [SmartBear](https://techarda.com/vendors/smartbear): SmartBear is a US software quality and API tooling company headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts. Its portfolio includes Swagger and SwaggerHub for API design, ReadyAPI and SoapUI for API testing, TestComplete and BugSnag, Zephyr and QMetry test management, Cucumber and PactFlow. SmartBear serves development and QA teams and is owned by private-equity firms Francisco Partners and Vista Equity Partners.
- [Snowflake](https://techarda.com/vendors/snowflake): Snowflake is a US cloud data platform company founded in 2012, with its principal executive office in Bozeman, Montana. Its AI Data Cloud runs on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud and provides data warehousing, data lake and Apache Iceberg support, data sharing, Snowpark, Cortex AI and Snowflake Postgres. Snowflake is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
- [Snyk](https://techarda.com/vendors/snyk): Snyk is a developer security company founded in 2015 in London and Tel Aviv and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Its AI Trust platform helps developers and security teams find and fix vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies, proprietary code, containers and infrastructure as code, and secure AI-generated code and AI applications. Snyk is privately held and venture-backed.
- [SolarWinds](https://techarda.com/vendors/solarwinds): SolarWinds is an IT management and observability software company headquartered in Austin, Texas, founded in 1999. It sells SolarWinds Observability for SaaS and self-hosted environments, Network Performance Monitor, Server & Application Monitor, Database Performance Analyzer and service desk software. In 2025 SolarWinds was taken private by private-equity firm Turn/River Capital.
- [Solo.io](https://techarda.com/vendors/solo-io): Solo.io is a cloud-native application networking company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2017 by Idit Levine. It sells Gloo Gateway, an Envoy-based API gateway, and Gloo Mesh, an enterprise Istio service mesh, and created open-source projects including kgateway, agentgateway and kagent for connecting and securing microservices and AI agents on Kubernetes.
- [Sonatype](https://techarda.com/vendors/sonatype): Sonatype is a US software supply chain security company founded in 2008 and based in Fulton, Maryland. It develops Nexus Repository, a widely used artifact repository manager, and the Sonatype Lifecycle, Firewall and SBOM Manager products for open source governance and dependency risk. Sonatype is the steward of Maven Central, the main public repository for Java components.
- [Sophos](https://techarda.com/vendors/sophos): Sophos is a British cybersecurity company founded in 1985 and headquartered in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. It sells endpoint protection (Intercept X), firewalls, managed detection and response (MDR), and email and cloud security, managed through the Sophos Central platform, largely via channel partners to mid-sized organisations. Sophos has been owned by Thoma Bravo since 2020 and acquired Secureworks in 2025.
- [Sourcegraph](https://techarda.com/vendors/sourcegraph): Sourcegraph is a US developer tools company founded in 2013 by Quinn Slack and Beyang Liu and based in San Francisco. It builds a code search and code intelligence platform that lets engineering teams search, navigate and understand large codebases across many repositories, along with AI coding tools including the Cody assistant. Its customers are mainly enterprises with large, complex code estates.
- [Spacelift](https://techarda.com/vendors/spacelift): Spacelift is an infrastructure-as-code orchestration platform used by platform engineering and DevOps teams to automate, govern and audit infrastructure workflows. It supports Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible and Kubernetes, with policy-as-code, drift detection and self-service provisioning. Spacelift is a privately held, venture-backed company and a founding supporter of the OpenTofu project.
- [Spectro Cloud](https://techarda.com/vendors/spectro-cloud): Spectro Cloud is a US Kubernetes management company founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Jose, California. Its Palette platform manages the full lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters across public clouds, data centres, bare metal and edge locations using declarative cluster profiles. Palette VerteX targets government and regulated users. Spectro Cloud also initiated Kairos, an open source edge OS project.
- [Splunk](https://techarda.com/vendors/splunk): Splunk is a US software company, founded in 2003 in San Francisco, that makes data platforms for security and observability. Its products include Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud Platform, Splunk Enterprise Security (SIEM), Splunk SOAR, Splunk Observability Cloud and IT Service Intelligence. Cisco completed its acquisition of Splunk in March 2024, and Splunk now operates as part of Cisco.
- [Starburst](https://techarda.com/vendors/starburst): Starburst is a US data analytics company founded in 2017 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. It sells a data lakehouse and query platform built on Trino, the open source distributed SQL engine created by Starburst's co-founders. Its products are Starburst Enterprise for self-managed deployments and Starburst Galaxy, a managed cloud service, which query data across lakes and databases without moving it.
- [Sumo Logic](https://techarda.com/vendors/sumo-logic): Sumo Logic is a US cloud-native log analytics company founded in 2010 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. It provides a SaaS platform for log management, observability and security analytics, including cloud SIEM, used by DevOps, IT and security teams. Sumo Logic was listed on Nasdaq from 2020 until Francisco Partners took it private in 2023.
- [Supabase](https://techarda.com/vendors/supabase): Supabase is an open source backend development platform founded in 2020 by Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson. Built around a dedicated PostgreSQL database per project, it adds authentication, instant REST and GraphQL APIs, realtime subscriptions, file storage, edge functions and vector search. Supabase is offered as a hosted cloud service and can be self-hosted; it is widely used by startups and AI application builders.
- [Supermicro](https://techarda.com/vendors/supermicro): Supermicro (Super Micro Computer, Inc.) is a US maker of servers, storage systems and data centre infrastructure, founded in 1993 by Charles Liang and headquartered in San Jose, California. It builds GPU-accelerated AI and HPC systems, rack-scale solutions and direct liquid cooling for cloud providers, enterprises and research institutions. Supermicro is listed on Nasdaq.
- [SUSE](https://techarda.com/vendors/suse): SUSE is an enterprise open source software company founded in 1992 in Nuremberg, Germany. It develops SUSE Linux Enterprise, the Rancher Prime Kubernetes management platform, NeuVector container security, and edge and AI infrastructure offerings for enterprises across cloud, data centre and edge environments. SUSE is owned by private equity firm EQT and sponsors the openSUSE community project.
- [Sysdig](https://techarda.com/vendors/sysdig): Sysdig is a US cloud and container security company founded in 2013 by Loris Degioanni, co-creator of Wireshark. Its Sysdig Secure platform provides cloud-native application protection (CNAPP), including runtime threat detection, vulnerability management and posture management for Kubernetes and cloud workloads. Sysdig created Falco, the open source runtime security project that graduated within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
- [Tenable](https://techarda.com/vendors/tenable): Tenable is a US cybersecurity company founded in 2002 and headquartered in Columbia, Maryland. It is known for the Nessus vulnerability scanner and sells exposure management products, including the Tenable One platform, Tenable Vulnerability Management, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Identity Exposure and Tenable OT Security. Tenable is listed on Nasdaq and serves enterprises and government agencies.
- [Tencent Cloud](https://techarda.com/vendors/tencent-cloud): Tencent Cloud is the cloud computing business of Tencent Holdings, the Chinese technology company headquartered in Shenzhen. It provides infrastructure and platform services including compute, storage, networking, databases, content delivery, audio and video (real-time communication and streaming), security and AI services, operating data centre regions in mainland China and internationally for enterprises, gaming and media companies.
- [Tenstorrent](https://techarda.com/vendors/tenstorrent): Tenstorrent is an AI and RISC-V computing company founded in 2016 in Toronto, Canada, and led by chief executive Jim Keller. It designs AI accelerators based on its Tensix cores, including the Wormhole and Blackhole processors, sells cards and workstation and server systems, and licenses RISC-V CPU and AI IP. Its software stacks, including TT-Metalium, are open source.
- [Teradata](https://techarda.com/vendors/teradata): Teradata is a US data analytics and data platform company founded in 1979 and headquartered in San Diego, California. Its flagship Teradata VantageCloud platform provides a scalable analytical database and data management for large enterprises, deployable on major public clouds or on-premises, with ClearScape Analytics for in-database analytics and AI. Teradata is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
- [ThoughtSpot](https://techarda.com/vendors/thoughtspot): ThoughtSpot is a US business intelligence and analytics software company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Mountain View, California. Its AI-powered analytics platform lets business users query data in natural language and explore live data in cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks and Google BigQuery. Products include Spotter, an AI analyst agent, and ThoughtSpot Embedded for developers.
- [Tigera](https://techarda.com/vendors/tigera): Tigera is a US Kubernetes networking and security company founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco. It is the creator and maintainer of Project Calico, a widely used open source networking and network policy solution for Kubernetes. Tigera's commercial offerings, Calico Enterprise and Calico Cloud, add security, observability and compliance features for containerised workloads.
- [TrendAI](https://techarda.com/vendors/trendai): TrendAI is the enterprise cybersecurity business of Japan's Trend Micro Incorporated, which renamed the business from Trend Micro to TrendAI in March 2026. It sells the TrendAI Vision One platform, covering endpoint, cloud, network and email security, XDR and attack surface risk management. Its parent company, founded in 1988 and headquartered in Tokyo, is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
- [Tricentis](https://techarda.com/vendors/tricentis): Tricentis is a software testing and quality engineering company founded in 2007 in Vienna, Austria, and headquartered in Austin, Texas. Its AI-powered platform covers test automation with Tosca and Testim, test management with qTest, performance testing with NeoLoad, SAP change impact analysis with LiveCompare and quality intelligence with SeaLights. Tricentis is privately held and acquired AI coding company Tabnine in July 2026.
- [Twilio](https://techarda.com/vendors/twilio): Twilio is a US customer engagement platform and communications API company founded in 2008 in San Francisco. Developers use its APIs to add SMS, voice, WhatsApp and other messaging, email (via SendGrid), and user verification to applications, and its Segment customer data platform to unify customer data. Twilio is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
- [Ubiquiti](https://techarda.com/vendors/ubiquiti): Ubiquiti is a US networking technology company founded in 2003 by Robert Pera and headquartered in New York City. It designs networking hardware and software under the UniFi brand for businesses and homes, covering Wi-Fi access points, switches, gateways, cameras and access control, and UISP products for internet service providers. Ubiquiti is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
- [UiPath](https://techarda.com/vendors/uipath): UiPath is an automation software company founded in 2005 in Bucharest, Romania, by Daniel Dines and Marius Tîrcă, and headquartered in New York City. Known for robotic process automation (RPA), it sells an agentic automation platform that combines software robots, AI agents, orchestration, document processing and process mining for enterprises. UiPath is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
- [UKG](https://techarda.com/vendors/ukg): UKG is a US human capital management (HCM) and workforce management software company formed in 2020 by the merger of Ultimate Software and Kronos Incorporated, with headquarters in Weston, Florida and Lowell, Massachusetts. Its products include UKG Pro for HR and payroll, UKG Pro Workforce Management, and UKG Ready for smaller organisations. UKG is privately held, with Hellman & Friedman among its major investors.
- [VAST Data](https://techarda.com/vendors/vast-data): VAST Data is a US data infrastructure company founded in 2016 by Renen Hallak, Shachar Fienblit and Jeff Denworth, and headquartered in New York City. Its VAST Data Platform, built on a disaggregated shared-everything (DASE) architecture using all-flash storage, unifies file, object and block storage with a database and compute engine for AI, analytics and high-performance computing workloads.
- [Veeam](https://techarda.com/vendors/veeam): Veeam is a data protection and data resilience software company founded in 2006 by Ratmir Timashev and Andrei Baronov. It sells the Veeam Data Platform, including Veeam Backup & Replication, for backup, recovery and ransomware resilience across virtual, physical, cloud, SaaS and Kubernetes workloads, plus Veeam Data Cloud as a service. Veeam is privately held, majority owned by Insight Partners since 2020.
- [Veeva Systems](https://techarda.com/vendors/veeva): Veeva Systems is a US cloud software company for the life sciences industry, founded in 2007 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California. Its Veeva Development Cloud supports clinical, regulatory, quality and safety processes, while Veeva Commercial Cloud, including Vault CRM, supports sales and marketing, alongside data products such as OpenData. Veeva is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is a public benefit corporation.
- [Vercel](https://techarda.com/vendors/vercel): Vercel is a US cloud platform company founded in 2015 by Guillermo Rauch, originally as ZEIT, and based in San Francisco. It provides a frontend cloud for building, deploying and scaling web applications, with global edge delivery and serverless functions. Vercel created and maintains the Next.js React framework, the AI SDK and Turborepo, and offers v0, an AI app-building tool.
- [Versa Networks](https://techarda.com/vendors/versa-networks): Versa Networks is a US networking and security company founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It sells VersaONE, a universal SASE platform that combines SD-WAN, secure service edge (SSE), zero trust network access and next-generation firewall capabilities on a single operating system. Versa sells to enterprises and to service providers that deliver managed SD-WAN and SASE services.
- [Vultr](https://techarda.com/vendors/vultr): Vultr is a privately held cloud infrastructure provider founded in 2014 and headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida. It offers cloud compute, bare metal servers, cloud GPUs for AI workloads, managed Kubernetes, managed databases, block and object storage and networking across a global network of data centre locations, aimed at developers and businesses. Vultr is operated by The Constant Company.
- [Wasabi](https://techarda.com/vendors/wasabi): Wasabi is a US cloud object storage company, Wasabi Technologies, founded in 2015 by David Friend and Jeff Flowers, co-founders of Carbonite, and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. It sells S3-compatible hot cloud storage with a single storage tier and no fees for egress or API requests, used for backup, archiving, media and surveillance data, largely through channel partners.
- [WEKA](https://techarda.com/vendors/weka): WEKA (WekaIO) is a data platform and storage software company founded in 2013, with headquarters in Campbell, California and research and development in Israel. Its software-defined parallel file system and data platform, now branded NeuralMesh, delivers high-performance storage for AI training and inference, HPC and data-intensive workloads on-premises and in public clouds.
- [Wiz](https://techarda.com/vendors/wiz): Wiz is a cloud security company founded in 2020 by Assaf Rappaport, Ami Luttwak, Yinon Costica and Roy Reznik, headquartered in New York City with research and development in Israel. Its cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) covers cloud posture, vulnerabilities, identities, code and runtime threats using agentless scanning. Google completed its $32 billion acquisition of Wiz in March 2026, and Wiz is now part of Google Cloud.
- [Workday](https://techarda.com/vendors/workday): Workday is a US enterprise cloud applications company founded in 2005 by Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri and headquartered in Pleasanton, California. It sells software for human capital management, financial management, spend management and planning (Adaptive Planning), with AI agents built into its platform, to medium and large organisations. Workday is listed on Nasdaq.
- [Writer](https://techarda.com/vendors/writer): Writer is a US enterprise generative AI company founded in 2020 by May Habib and Waseem AlShikh and headquartered in San Francisco. Its full-stack platform combines its own Palmyra family of large language models, graph-based retrieval (Knowledge Graph) and tools for building and governing AI agents, used by enterprises to automate work in marketing, operations, finance and other functions.
- [Yugabyte](https://techarda.com/vendors/yugabyte): Yugabyte is a US database company founded in 2016 by Kannan Muthukkaruppan, Karthik Ranganathan and Mikhail Bautin, former Facebook engineers, and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It develops YugabyteDB, an open source, PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL database for resilient, horizontally scalable cloud-native applications, offered as self-managed YugabyteDB Anywhere and the fully managed YugabyteDB Aeon service.
- [Zapier](https://techarda.com/vendors/zapier): Zapier is a US no-code automation company founded in 2011 in Columbia, Missouri, by Wade Foster, Bryan Helmig and Mike Knoop, and headquartered in San Francisco as a remote-first company. Its platform connects thousands of web applications so users can automate workflows (Zaps) and build AI agents, chatbots, tables and interfaces without code, serving individuals, small businesses and enterprise teams.
- [Zendesk](https://techarda.com/vendors/zendesk): Zendesk is a customer service software company founded in 2007 in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Mikkel Svane, Morten Primdahl and Alexander Aghassipour, and headquartered in San Francisco. It sells a cloud customer service platform covering ticketing, messaging, voice, help centres, AI agents and workforce engagement. Zendesk has been privately held since 2022, when Hellman & Friedman and Permira acquired it.
- [Zoho](https://techarda.com/vendors/zoho): Zoho is an Indian software company, Zoho Corporation, founded in 1996 as AdventNet by Sridhar Vembu and Tony Thomas and headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It sells a broad suite of cloud business applications, including Zoho CRM, Zoho Books, Zoho Workplace and the Zoho One bundle, and IT management software through its ManageEngine division. Zoho is privately held and has never taken external funding.
- [Zscaler](https://techarda.com/vendors/zscaler): Zscaler is a US cloud security company founded in 2007 by Jay Chaudhry and K. Kailash and headquartered in San Jose, California. Its Zero Trust Exchange platform delivers secure access to the internet, SaaS and private applications, including Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA), Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) and Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX). Zscaler is listed on Nasdaq.

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