My latest story for Network World — 10 Hot Business Continuity Startups to Watch — is out. I selected the 10 startups in the story based on a combination of funding, the experience of their leadership team, market opportunity, value proposition, product-market fit, and named customers. (You can read more about my selection methodology here.)
In the current landscape business continuity is about a lot more than natural disasters: Denial of service attacks, ransomware and even network outages can undermine business continuity, and while moving applications to the cloud might seem like a viable solution, cloud providers aren’t immune to outages.
These are just a few of the problems being tackled by the companies featured in this roundup of business-continuity startups.
You’ll notice that blockchain, machine learning and networking play a big role in their work, and rightly so. Blockchain helps decentralize data; machine learning helps automate backups and recovery; and reliable networking is a must because you can’t have continuity if you can’t access your data.
The startups featured in this roundup offer everything from blockchain-based distributed storage to virtualized storage and data management to swarm-computing-based databases. Any one of them could be the upstart that completely reconfigures the storage and business continuity landscape, which is why we’ll be watching them.
Check out in-depth profiles of the 10 Hot Startups over at Network World: 10 Hot Business Continuity Startups to Watch.
