Indústria

A indústria, vista de dentro

As genealogias corporativas de redes e segurança: quem fundou cada empresa, o que construíram, quem comprou quem e onde cada linhagem foi parar. Escrito a partir de fontes primárias - registros na SEC, relatórios de inquérito e a imprensa especializada de cada época.

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1. 18471847 - hojeOrigem:DE (Germany)Siemens - the 1847 telegraph startupFabricanteServiçosWerner von Siemens built the Indo-European telegraph line; the conglomerate's communications bloodline runs through EWSD, the Nokia JV, and Unify.
2. 18651865 - hojeOrigem:FI (Finland)Nokia - from paper mill to network giantFabricanteA 160-year arc: rubber boots to world phone leader to one of the three companies that build the world's mobile networks.
3. 18751875 - hojeOrigem:JP (Japan)Toshiba - the company that gave the world flashFabricanteFujio Masuoka invented NOR and then NAND flash at Toshiba in the 1980s - every SSD, phone, and memory card descends from it; the T1100 started the laptop era.
4. 18761876 - hojeOrigem:SE (Sweden)Ericsson - 150 years of telephonyFabricanteFrom an 1876 Stockholm telegraph workshop to the AXE switch, GSM, Bluetooth, and today's 5G triumvirate.
5. 18861886 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Unisys - computing's oldest bloodlinesFabricanteServiçosBurroughs (1886) plus Sperry's UNIVAC - the ENIAC creators' company - merged in 1986: the deepest lineage in this section, still running ClearPath descendants today.
6. 18871887 - hojeOrigem:NL (Netherlands)GetronicsServiçosFabricanteA Dutch electrical firm from the 1880s that ended up owning what was left of Wang Laboratories.
7. 18951895 - hojeOrigem:CA (Canada)Nortel & Bay Networks - the giant that vanishedFabricanteFrom 1895 Montreal to a third of Canada's stock index to the largest bankruptcy in Canadian history - and the $4.5B patent auction that ended it.
8. 18971897 - hojeOrigem:GB (United Kingdom)Marconi - wireless itself, then the bubbleFabricanteOperadoraGuglielmo Marconi bridged the Atlantic in 1901; a century later the company bearing his name became telecom's starkest dot-com cautionary tale, carved up by Ericsson in 2006.
9. 18981898 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Bell Labs, Lucent & Alcatel - the transistor's bloodlineFabricantePadrõesThe transistor, information theory, Unix, the laser, cellular - ten Nobel Prizes of foundations, spun into Lucent in 1996, merged with Alcatel in 2006, carried into Nokia in 2016.
10. 18991899 - hojeOrigem:JP (Japan)NEC - Japan's first joint ventureFabricanteServiçosFounded 1899 with Western Electric capital; NEAX switched the world's calls, the PC-98 owned Japan's PC market, and the C&C vision named the convergence everyone now lives in.
11. 19011901 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)NBS / NIST - the measurement laboratory that tested the standardsPadrõesSomebody has to decide whether two implementations of a specification actually interoperate, and it is not usually the people who wrote it.
12. 19061906 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)HoneywellFabricanteA thermostat company that became a mainframe company and then went back to controlling physical things.
13. 19061906 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Xerox - the company that fumbled the futureFabricantePadrõesXerography built the empire; PARC invented Ethernet, the GUI, and laser printing - and networking's history runs through that lab.
14. 19101910 - hojeOrigem:JP (Japan)Hitachi - the industrial giant that stores the worldFabricanteServiçosFrom a mine's five-horsepower motor in 1910 to VSP arrays, HGST drives, and Britain's express trains - the conglomerate whose storage lineage runs through every SAN.
15. 19111911 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)IBM - the century companyFabricanteServiçosPunched cards to System/360 to the PC to Red Hat: the company the rest of the industry defined itself against.
16. 19211921 - hojeOrigem:IT (Italy)Italtel - a century of somebody else's telephone networkFabricanteServiçosFounded as a Siemens branch in 1921, and still building networks a hundred years later under different owners.
17. 19281928 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Motorola - the radio centuryFabricanteCar radios to the walkie-talkie to the first handheld cell call and the moon itself; split in 2011 into Solutions and a Mobility arm that passed through Google to Lenovo.
18. 19301930 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Texas Instruments - where the integrated circuit was demonstratedFabricanteSemiconductor company whose employee demonstrated the first integrated circuit in 1958.
19. 19311931 - hojeOrigem:FR (France)Bull - Europe's computing championFabricanteServiçosPunch-card wars against IBM in the 1930s, the prophetic Gamma 60, nationalization and privatization - and a final act building Europe's first exascale supercomputer.
20. 19341934 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)USP - where a lot of this startedPadrõesServiçosBrazilian public university whose computing departments seeded the industry around it.
21. 19351935 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Arrow ElectronicsDistribuiçãoStarted on Radio Row selling used radios; lost thirteen of its leaders in one afternoon and rebuilt.
22. 19351935 - hojeOrigem:JP (Japan)Fujitsu - Japan's computing standard-bearerFabricanteServiçosBorn from a 1935 Fuji Electric spin-off (itself a Furukawa-Siemens venture), Fujitsu fought IBM with Amdahl, absorbed ICL, and built the K and Fugaku supercomputers.
23. 19391939 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)HPE Networking - HP, 3Com, Aruba, JuniperFabricanteThe great consolidation: from the Addison Avenue garage to the $14B Juniper merger.
24. 19481948 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)BBN - the contractor that built the first networkServiçosPadrõesA research firm won the ARPANET contract, and the packet switch became a product because somebody had to manufacture it.
25. 19481948 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Fluke - the meters and certifiers in every field bagFabricanteThe 87 multimeter and the DSX CableAnalyzer - and a 2015 three-way split (Fortive, NetScout, NetAlly) worth knowing cold.
26. 19481948 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)RAND Corporation - where packet switching was imaginedPadrõesPaul Baran's 1964 'On Distributed Communications' argued a network with no center could survive anything - AT&T declined to build it; the internet did.
27. 19511951 - 1999Origem:US (United States)Wang Laboratories - the office before the PCFabricanteAn Wang's core-memory patents funded a word-processing empire that owned the office of the late 1970s - and the PC unmade it inside a decade.Acquired by Getronics of the Netherlands in 1999. Getronics North America passed to KPN in 2007 and CompuCom in 2008.
28. 19521952 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Elgin - the point of sale, and everything attached to itFabricanteBrazilian manufacturer of commercial-automation equipment; recorded as the owner of Bematech.
29. 19541954 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Algar Telecom - the operator the state never tookOperadoraBrazilian carrier founded 1954 as CTBC in Uberlandia, and the only one to stay private through nationalisation.
30. 19571957 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)AnixterDistribuiçãoA distributor wrote the specification that became Cat 5 and Cat 6.
31. 19571957 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Digital Equipment Corporation - the minicomputer kingFabricanteKen Olsen's PDP and VAX machines defined two decades of computing; DEC co-authored Ethernet and ended inside Compaq in 1998.
32. 19581958 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)MITRE - the not-for-profit that sits between buyer and vendorServiçosPadrõesAn organisation with no product to sell, advising the customer who is buying everybody else's.
33. 19601960 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Promon and LogicalisServiçosRevendaAn engineering firm owned entirely by the people who work there, in a joint venture with a South African holding company's British subsidiary.
34. 19621962 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Codex - modems, and the mathematics underneath themFabricanteA company whose product was signal processing sold as a box, in the window a regulator had just opened.
35. 19621962 - 2008Origem:US (United States)Electronic Data Systems (EDS)ServiçosInvented the idea that a company could hand its computing to somebody else entirely.Acquired by Hewlett-Packard for nearly $14B, completed August 2008, and folded into HP Enterprise Services.
36. 19621962 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Unicamp - the other half of the São Paulo pipelinePadrõesServiçosPublic university at the centre of a regional technology cluster.
37. 19641964 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Serpro - the federal government's data processingTrabalhou diretamenteServiçosData centerRuns the systems a Brazilian citizen cannot opt out of.
38. 19651965 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Cyclades, Avocent & Vertiv - the physical layer of uptimeFabricanteA Brazilian-founded console-server pioneer, the KVM leaders, and Liebert's computer-room weather - consolidated into the company whose product is uptime itself.
39. 19671967 - hojeOrigem:FR (France)Capgemini - and the Brazilian services business it absorbedServiçosFrench IT services multinational; acquirer of the Brazilian firm TI Braxis.
40. 19681968 - 1999Origem:US (United States)Data General - the soul of a new machineFabricanteEdson de Castro left DEC to build the Nova; Tracy Kidder's Pulitzer immortalized the Eagle; CLARiiON storage carried the DNA into EMC in 1999.Purchased by EMC in 1999, largely for its CLARiiON storage array line.
41. 19681968 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Intel - the processor in the control planeFabricanteFounded 1968 by Moore and Noyce; the x86 architecture, the first microprocessor, and the network interface everyone drives.
42. 19681968 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Intel & AMD - Fairchild's children: the x86 rivalryFabricanteThe 4004, Moore's Law, and the second source that wrote AMD64 - one entry, because neither story parses without the other.
43. 19681968 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Lumen, CenturyLink, Level 3 and Global CrossingOperadoraA rural Louisiana phone company that ended up owning one of the internet's largest backbones.
44. 19691969 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)AMD - the company that bought its way into the networkFabricanteFounded 1969; acquired Xilinx and Pensando in 2022 to reach the network adapter and the data processing unit.
45. 19691969 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Paradyne - the last miles of the analogue eraFabricanteSqueezing usable data rates out of the copper that was already in the ground.
46. 19691969 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Prodesp - the state of Sao Paulo, computedServiçosData centerCreated in 1969 with two staff and no equipment; now runs the state's network and data centre.
47. 19701970 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Fatec - the technologist degree, and who it is forTreinamentoState technology faculties offering short applied degrees rather than full engineering courses.
48. 19711971 - hojeOrigem:FR (France)CYCLADES (IRIA, France)PadrõesWhere the datagram was born.
49. 19711971 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Hughes - the network where latency is a law of physicsOperadoraFabricanteGeostationary satellite: about a quarter of a second each way, and nothing will fix it.
50. 19711971 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Prodam - the city of Sao Paulo, computedServiçosData centerMunicipal ICT company created in 1971, serving a city of more than twelve million people.
51. 19721972 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Proteon - token ring, and the road not takenFabricanteA serious alternative to Ethernet, built by people who thought deterministic access mattered more than simplicity.
52. 19721972 - hojeOrigem:DE (Germany)SAP - five engineers against the mainframeFabricanteEx-IBM founders built the ERP category in 1972; R/3 conquered the client-server world and HANA reinvented the core.
53. 19721972 - 1998Origem:BR (Brazil)The Telebrás System (Telebrás, Telesp, Embratel)OperadoraPadrõesNine hundred telephone companies became one, then twelve, then a handful owned elsewhere.The system was privatised on 29 July 1998 and split into twelve regional holdings. Telebrás itself was reactivated in 2010 with a different mandate.
54. 19741974 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Cobra - the computer the country built, and the operating system it was told to stopFabricanteComputadores e Sistemas Brasileiros, founded 1974; now BB Tecnologia e Servicos.
55. 19741974 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Dataprev - social security as a computing problemServiçosData centerFormed from the merged data centres of the social security institutes, and still holding the record of who is owed what.
56. 19741974 - hojeOrigem:CLSonda - the largest technology company in Latin America is ChileanServiçosRevendaChilean IT services multinational founded 1974, which became the largest provider in Brazil by buying thirteen companies.
57. 19741974 - 1997Origem:US (United States)Tandem Computers - the machine that never stopsFabricanteJimmy Treybig's NonStop architecture made fault tolerance a product in 1976; it still runs stock exchanges and card networks today, as HPE NonStop.Acquired by Compaq in 1997 for $3B, and with Compaq into HP in 2002. The NonStop line survives as an HPE division, so the technology outlived the company by decades.
58. 19741974 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Tech Data and SYNNEX (now TD SYNNEX)Trabalhou diretamenteDistribuiçãoA father sold it to his son for ten thousand dollars; it is now the largest technology distributor in the world.
59. 19741974 - 1992Origem:BR (Brazil)The Brazilian market reserve (Cobra, Scopus, Itautec)FabricantePadrõesTreinamentoA policy that failed at its stated goal and succeeded at one nobody wrote down.The Informatics Law had a fixed eight-year term written into it from the start and expired in 1992. The companies survived by changing what they made.
60. 19751975 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Micom - concentrators, and what they were really sellingFabricanteFewer leased lines for the same number of terminals, which is an argument a finance director understands.
61. 19751975 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)MicrosoftParceira Red EducationFabricanteThe platform company: Windows, Azure, and Microsoft 365.
62. 19761976 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)AppleFabricanteLost the first round of the personal computer market badly, and won every round after it.
63. 19761976 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)CPqDPadrõesServiçosTreinamentoThe state research centre that survived the privatisation of the state.
64. 19761976 - hojeOrigem:IN (India)HCLTechServiçosFabricanteTreinamentoStarted because IBM left India, and forty-one years later bought IBM's software.
65. 19761976 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)USRoboticsFabricanteWon three times with proprietary protocols, and gave up all three the moment a standard arrived.
66. 19771977 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)MicrocampTreinamentoThe pioneering was the audience, not the technology - and it taught on the machines the market reserve built.
67. 19771977 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Oracle - the database empireFabricanteThe first commercial SQL database, four decades of acquisitions - Sun included - and 2025's handover to co-CEOs for the AI era.
68. 19771977 - 1993Origem:US (United States)Tandy and RadioShackFabricanteRevendaOutsold Apple three to one with a worse computer, because it had seven thousand shops.Tandy exited computer manufacturing in May 1993, selling the business to AST. The RadioShack chain continued long after the machines stopped.
69. 19791979 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)3Com - Ethernet leaves the labFabricanteBob Metcalfe commercialized his own PARC invention; EtherLink wired the PC era, Palm rode along, and the story ended at HP in 2010.
70. 19791979 - 2016Origem:US (United States)EMC CorporationFabricanteMade storage a category of its own, then became the largest technology acquisition in history.Acquired by Dell for $67B - the largest technology acquisition ever at the time - forming Dell Technologies. The Dell EMC brand persisted on products until around 2020.
71. 19791979 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Ingram MicroDistribuiçãoTwo schoolteachers started it, and it now moves fifty billion dollars of other people's products a year.
72. 19791979 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Sytek - broadband LANs, and NetBIOSFabricanteRan local networks over cable television plant, and left behind an interface that outlived the company by decades.
73. 19791979 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Ungermann-Bass - the first company that only did networksFabricanteRalph Ungermann left Zilog to build networks and nothing else, which nobody had done as a business before.
74. 19811981 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Bridge Communications - the box between the networksFabricanteBuilt the equipment that joined incompatible networks, then merged with 3Com in 1987.
75. 19811981 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)OlitelRevendaServiçosHas been making other people's telephones work for forty years, through four incompatible technologies.
76. 19821982 - 2002Origem:US (United States)Compaq - the clone that became the kingFabricanteThree ex-TI engineers sketched a portable on a placemat, clean-roomed the IBM BIOS, and built the fastest company to a billion dollars - then bought DEC and merged into HP.Acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2002, and retired as a brand by 2010. It had itself absorbed Tandem in 1997 and DEC in 1998, so three companies ended inside one lineage.
77. 19821982 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)CompTIATreinamentoPadrõesIts entire value was being owned by nobody, and in 2024 it was bought.
78. 19821982 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Compugraf (now CG One)RevendaA computer graphics company that became a security company, and kept the name for forty years.
79. 19821982 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Excelan - TCP/IP on a card, before it was obviousFabricanteSelling TCP/IP to corporations in 1982, which required believing a research network's protocol had a commercial future.
80. 19821982 - 1995Origem:US (United States)Lotus DevelopmentFabricanteForecast a million dollars in its first year, made fifty-three, and shipped software still running four decades later.Acquired by IBM for $3.5B, primarily to obtain Notes. The brand persisted for years afterwards, and the Notes and Domino products were sold on to HCL in a deal announced 6 December 2018 for $1.8B.
81. 19821982 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Silicon Graphics - the geometry of HollywoodFabricanteJim Clark's geometry engines rendered Jurassic Park and invented OpenGL; the name ended at HPE in 2016.
82. 19821982 - 2010Origem:US (United States)Sun Microsystems - the network is the computerFabricanteFour Stanford-orbit founders, SPARC, Solaris, Java - the dot in dot-com, absorbed by Oracle in 2010.Acquired by Oracle in 2010. Java, Solaris, ZFS and the identity stack that became ForgeRock all passed with it.
83. 19821982 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)SymantecParceira Red EducationFabricanteThe security brand of a generation, now Broadcom's enterprise line.
84. 19821982 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)TecBan - the machines belong to nobody in particularServiçosBrazilian shared self-service network founded in 1982 by three banks, operator of Banco24Horas.
85. 19831983 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Banyan Systems - the directory pioneerFabricanteVINES and StreetTalk delivered a true global directory service years before NDS or Active Directory - and lost anyway; the idea won everywhere.
86. 19831983 - 2013Origem:US (United States)Cabletron Systems and EnterasysVivido por dentroFabricanteSold cable assemblies out of a garage, grew into Cisco's most serious rival, then dismantled itself on purpose.Enterasys, the enterprise remnant of Cabletron, was acquired by Extreme Networks in 2013 for $180M.
87. 19831983 - hojeOrigem:ZADimension Data - integration at continental scaleRevendaServiçosA systems integrator that grew out of one region and was absorbed into a Japanese carrier.
88. 19831983 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)DNS & BIND - the internet's phone book and its reference implementationPadrõesMockapetris's 1983 design and Berkeley's software that ran it - delegation, caching, and forty years of the same wire format.
89. 19831983 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Microsiga - the bet that microcomputers would replace mainframesFabricanteBrazilian business-software company founded in 1983, renamed TOTVS in 2005.
90. 19831983 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Novell - the network operating systemFabricanteNetWare owned the LAN era and IPX ran the world's offices; the lineage ended at OpenText in 2023.
91. 19831983 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)TOTVS - the software most Brazilian companies actually run onFabricanteBrazilian enterprise resource planning vendor, founded in 1983 and listed on B3.
92. 19841984 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Cisco SystemsParceira Red EducationVivido por dentroFabricanteDid not invent the router, but was the first to sell one that spoke everybody's protocol at once.
93. 19841984 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Dell & Force10 - the direct model and its fabricFabricanteA dorm-room assembler became the datacenter's broadest supplier - and the 10GbE pioneer it absorbed in 2011 became its switching lineage.
94. 19841984 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)The Sniffer lineage - Network General to NetScoutFabricanteThe 1986 Sniffer made protocol analysis a profession; through Dolch luggables, Network Associates, and Arbor's DDoS telemetry, the whole bloodline converged on NetScout.
95. 19841984 - 2023Origem:US (United States)Xilinx - the chip you finish writing yourselfFabricanteField-programmable gate array pioneer, founded 1984, acquired by AMD in 2022.Acquired by AMD on 14 February 2022 and the brand phased out in June 2023; the product lines continue under AMD.
96. 19851985 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Qualcomm - a trucking service paid for the mobile networkFabricanteFounded 1985; funded its CDMA research with a satellite messaging system sold to hauliers.
97. 19851985 - hojeOrigem:GB (United Kingdom)SophosFabricanteStarted in Oxford the year before the first PC virus spread, and is still here under its own name.
98. 19851985 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)SynOptics - the other half of Bay NetworksFabricanteEthernet over telephone wiring, which turned a coaxial bus into something a building could actually be wired for.
99. 19851985 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Tecnocomp - the network that reaches 200 citiesServiçosBrazilian IT services company founded 1985, working in managed services, infrastructure and data centres.
100. 19851985 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Westcon-ComstorVivido por dentroDistribuiçãoThe layer between the vendor and the reseller, which decides what is practical to buy in your country.
101. 19851985 - hojeOrigem:CN (China)ZTE - China's other giantFabricanteShenzhen 1985, top-four in 5G - and the 2018 denial order that made supply-chain dependency the industry's most vivid lesson.
102. 19861986 - hojeOrigem:TW (Taiwan)D-Link - the adapter in the machine, not the rackFabricanteTaiwanese networking manufacturer founded 1986 as Datex Systems; first networking company listed in Taiwan.
103. 19861986 - hojeOrigem:GB (United Kingdom)Madge Networks - Token Ring's standard-bearerFabricanteFrom a Buckinghamshire farm to beating IBM in court at IBM's own game - and down with the protocol it championed: 'the Betamax of the networking world.'
104. 19861986 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)NCSA - the campus lab that made the web visiblePadrõesMosaic gave the web a face in 1993; NCSA httpd's orphaned patches became Apache; NCSA Telnet networked a generation of campuses.
105. 19861986 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Wellfleet - one half of Bay NetworksFabricanteThe router company that merged with a hub company, producing a business that was briefly the credible alternative to Cisco.
106. 19871987 - hojeOrigem:JP (Japan)Allied TelesisFabricanteJapan's global Ethernet workhorse, from media converters up.
107. 19871987 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Dolch (Kontron / Azonix lineage)FabricanteThe rugged luggable the Sniffer lived in.
108. 19871987 - hojeOrigem:NL (Netherlands)EPIParceira Red EducationTreinamentoData-centre training and TIA-942 certification.
109. 19871987 - hojeOrigem:CN (China)Huawei - the Shenzhen ascentFabricanteFrom a 1987 PBX reseller to the world's largest telecom equipment maker - and the center of the decade's biggest technology-policy storm.
110. 19871987 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)McAfee, FireEye & Mandiant - the road to TrellixTrabalhou diretamenteFabricanteThree security pioneers, one private-equity remix: Trellix and Skyhigh under STG, Mandiant inside Google Cloud, McAfee consumer private.
111. 19871987 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Quest Software - sold to buy something elseFabricanteSystems and database management vendor founded 1987, bought by Dell, then sold onward twice.
112. 19871987 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)StefaniniServiçosTreinamentoA teacher started it in a spare room, and teaching is what won the first work.
113. 19871987 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)The access & home fleet - Netgear, TP-Link, Zyxel, Asus & Askey, Allied TelesisFabricanteThe boxes everyone actually owns: the first hop of most packets on Earth, told as one fleet.
114. 19871987 - hojeOrigem:TW (Taiwan)TSMC - the factory behind most of the silicon on this siteFabricanteThe first pure-play semiconductor foundry, founded 1987, manufacturing designs it does not own.
115. 19881988 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Contacta - security across the layers, and a SOCServiçosRevendaBrazilian security integrator running its own XDR-based security operations centre.
116. 19881988 - hojeOrigem:FR (France)Orange - a former state monopoly with a global enterprise armOperadoraThe other side of the European story: the operator the national champions were built to supply.
117. 19881988 - hojeOrigem:TW (Taiwan)ZyxelFabricanteThe modem-era first-mover from Hsinchu.
118. 19891989 - hojeOrigem:IE (Ireland)AccentureServiçosSpent years fighting to keep a name, lost, and it was the luckiest defeat in consulting.
119. 19891989 - hojeOrigem:TW (Taiwan)ASUS + AskeyFabricanteThe motherboard empire and its network-communications arm.
120. 19891989 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)HTTP & Gopher - the web's protocol and the rival it eclipsedPadrõesTwo futures shipped in 1991; one spring of licensing decided between them - CERN gave the web away, Minnesota asked for money.
121. 19901990 - hojeOrigem:ESAfina - the distributor Westcon bought to reach Latin AmericaDistribuiçãoSpanish security and data centre distributor, founded 1990, acquired by Westcon Group in 2012.
122. 19901990 - hojeOrigem:GB (United Kingdom)Arm - the processor almost nobody buys from ArmFabricanteFormed 1990; licenses a processor architecture rather than selling processors.
123. 19901990 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Bematech - a dissertation that became the tillFabricanteBrazilian commercial-automation manufacturer founded in 1990 in Curitiba, known for fiscal printers.
124. 19901990 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)GenesysFabricanteTwo sons of Soviet emigres met at a card game and decided the phone call and the customer record should arrive together.
125. 19901990 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)PrometricTreinamentoServiçosSix owners in thirty-five years, and the layer that deliberately does not write the questions it delivers.
126. 19911991 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Agility - the infrastructure half of securityServiçosRevendaSao Paulo integrator specialising in infrastructure and cybersecurity for critical environments.
127. 19911991 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Broadcom - the silicon inside almost everybody's switchFabricanteMerchant switching silicon supplier, and the company most networking equipment on this timeline depends on without saying so.
128. 19911991 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Teltec Solutions - Florianopolis, and a Cisco award for trainingRevendaServiçosBrazilian ICT integrator from Santa Catarina, twice recognised by Cisco across Latin America.
129. 19921992 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Ciena - the company that taught fiber to carry colorsFabricanteThe first commercial DWDM deployment (Sprint, 1996) multiplied installed fiber sixteenfold - and Ciena has compounded the optical layer ever since, Nortel inheritance included.
130. 19921992 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)NetAppFabricanteNamed itself after exactly what it sold, which turned out to be most of the strategy.
131. 19921992 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)ParxtechRevendaServiçosSells the layer nobody photographs: cable, containment, power and the survey that decides where they go.
132. 19921992 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)ScanSourceVivido por dentroDistribuiçãoDistributed products that were on their way to becoming commodities, and tried to arrive first.
133. 19921992 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)TDec Network Group - networks and security, three countriesVivido por dentroRevendaServiçosA Brazilian network and security house that grew outward: Brazil, the United States, Portugal.
134. 19931993 - hojeOrigem:IL (Israel)AudioCodesFabricanteMade the codec, then the board, then the gateway, then the software - and kept the same chief executive for thirty-three years.
135. 19931993 - hojeOrigem:IL (Israel)Check Point Software TechnologiesParceira Red EducationTrabalha comFabricantePatented stateful inspection, invented the firewall market, and then watched its own alumni build the competition.
136. 19931993 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)CLM - value-added distribution across Latin AmericaDistribuiçãoThe layer that decides which security products a Latin American reseller can actually sell.
137. 19931993 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Ka SolutionTreinamentoServiçosCarries fifteen vendors' official curricula at once, which is a different business from carrying one.
138. 19931993 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Nvidia - the GPU company that runs the fabricFabricanteCUDA's decade-early bet, the AlexNet ignition, Mellanox - the network's biggest customer became one of its vendors.
139. 19931993 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Supermicro - the hardware underneath somebody else's brandFabricanteA great deal of infrastructure is built on boards whose maker is not on the bezel.
140. 19931993 - 1999Origem:US (United States)Xylan - the fastest growing internetworking company there had beenFabricanteLAN switching company founded 1993 in Calabasas, acquired by Alcatel in 1999.Acquired by Alcatel. A cash tender offer at US$37.00 per share opened 8 March 1999 and closed 2 April with about 97% of shares tendered; Xylan became a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary that month. The switching line continued as Alcatel's enterprise business.
141. 19941994 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Netscape - the company that opened the webFabricanteClark and Andreessen's Navigator took the internet mainstream; SSL, JavaScript, and the cookie were invented here - the browser lost the war, the inventions won everything.
142. 19941994 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Pearson VUETreinamentoServiçosA certification is worth exactly what its verification is worth, and this is where the verification happens.
143. 19941994 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Red HatParceira Red EducationFabricanteEnterprise open source: RHEL, OpenShift, Ansible.
144. 19941994 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Websense and ForcepointFabricanteA reseller that became a filter, then a bubble IPO, then a defence contractor's cyber arm, then private equity again.
145. 19951995 - 2013Origem:US (United States)AltaVistaFabricanteBuilt to stress-test a processor, it became the best search engine on the web - and was then turned into a portal.Shut down by Yahoo on 8 July 2013; the domain has redirected to Yahoo Search ever since.
146. 19951995 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Brocade & Foundry - the Broadcom diasporaFabricanteTwo 1990s pioneers, one 2017 dismemberment: SAN to Broadcom, data center to Extreme, campus and Wi-Fi to CommScope.
147. 19951995 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Etek NovaRed - a Brazilian firm owned from Miami, then from SantiagoServiçosDistribuiçãoBrazilian information-security company, a Chilean-American joint venture from 2012 and wholly Chilean-owned from 2021.
148. 19951995 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Global Knowledge - the largest of them, now inside SkillsoftTreinamentoEnterprise IT training company, a Cisco Platinum Learning Partner, now part of Skillsoft.
149. 19951995 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Marvell - founded on a disk drive, ended up in the networkFabricanteSilicon company incorporated in 1995 by three founders, now a supplier of networking and infrastructure chips.
150. 19951995 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)The Apache Software FoundationPadrõesFabricanteThe web server that ran the web, built by eight people trading patches by email.
151. 19961996 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Blue Coat & Packeteer - the chokepoint companiesFabricanteCacheFlow's pivot made the proxy a security platform; PacketShaper created traffic shaping - together, the prehistory of the SSE category.
152. 19961996 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Extreme NetworksParceira Red Educationinstrutor autorizadoTrabalha comTrabalhou diretamenteFabricanteNetworking manufacturer of enterprise switching, wireless and cloud-managed network software.
153. 19961996 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)F5Parceira Red Educationinstrutor autorizadoTrabalha comTrabalhou diretamenteFabricanteNamed after a tornado, and spent thirty years moving up the stack from ports to applications.
154. 19961996 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Goldnet TI - thirty years of the same two vendorsRevendaServiçosBrazilian IT integrator with Cisco and Microsoft practices, working nationally.
155. 19961996 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)ISH Tecnologia - security with the governance attachedServiçosBrazilian security company covering GRC, continuity planning, privacy and risk management.
156. 19961996 - hojeOrigem:LV (Latvia)MikroTik - Latvia's quiet giantFabricanteRouterOS on commodity hardware: the company that made carrier-grade routing affordable everywhere - and stayed independent.
157. 19961996 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Nava - three companies that became one nameServiçosRevendaUnicom built the infrastructure, FlexVision built the software, and the merged company had to be both.
158. 19961996 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)NETGEARFabricanteThe company that put networking on the retail shelf.
159. 19961996 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)NetScreen and Juniper NetworksVivido por dentroFabricanteOne firewall company whose alumni went on to found or shape most of the others.
160. 19961996 - 2006Origem:US (United States)Riverstone NetworksVivido por dentroFabricanteSpun out of Cabletron to chase the metro Ethernet boom, and ran out of road when the boom stopped.Assets acquired by Lucent Technologies in early 2006 following a Chapter 11 filing, and absorbed into Alcatel-Lucent when the two merged later that year.
161. 19961996 - 2001Origem:US (United States)SixDegrees.comFabricanteThe first social network, and it failed because not enough people were online yet.Sold to YouthStream Media Networks in December 2000 and shut down the following year.
162. 19961996 - hojeOrigem:CN (China)TP-LinkFabricanteThe volume king of consumer networking.
163. 19961996 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)WatchGuard - the red box that made the firewall an applianceFabricanteThe 1996 Firebox turned security from a project into an object - and the mid-market has run on it since.
164. 19961996 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)YSSY - integration with the certificates to prove itServiçosRevendaA Brazilian integrator whose public face is a list of standards it holds.
165. 19971997 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Ixia and KeysightTrabalhou diretamenteFabricanteNetwork test, bought by the part of Hewlett-Packard that Hewlett and Packard actually started.
166. 19971997 - hojeOrigem:RU (Russia)KasperskyFabricanteWorld-class malware research and a geopolitical problem, in the same company, both real.
167. 19971997 - hojeOrigem:DE (Germany)PaesslerParceira Red EducationFabricantePRTG: the network monitoring standard of the mid-market.
168. 19971997 - hojeOrigem:IL (Israel)Radware - the Zisapel lineageFabricanteBorn of Israel's RAD Group in 1997; the ADC and DDoS specialist that rescued Alteon from Nortel's wreckage for ~$18M.
169. 19981998 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Akamai TechnologiesFabricanteServiçosAnswered a question Tim Berners-Lee posed about congestion, and the answer became most of how the web is delivered.
170. 19981998 - 2009Origem:BR (Brazil)Brasil TelecomOperadoraOne of the twelve pieces, which spent a decade becoming part of a larger piece again.Acquired by Oi (then Telemar), reuniting two of the three fixed-line holdings the 1998 privatisation had separated.
171. 19981998 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Datacom - Brazil's networking manufacturerFabricanteThe hometown entry: carrier gear, GPON, and a national OS, designed and built in Rio Grande do Sul since 1998.
172. 19981998 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)EquinixData centerTwo facilities managers left DEC because the telcos were refereeing a game they were playing in.
173. 19981998 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)GoogleFabricanteRanked pages by who linked to them rather than how often they said the word - and was nearly sold to AltaVista for a million dollars.
174. 19981998 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Oi - sixteen companies assembled into one, then unassembledOperadoraBrazilian carrier created by the 1998 Telebras privatisation; filed the largest bankruptcy protection in Brazilian history in 2016.
175. 19991999 - hojeOrigem:IL (Israel)CyberArkParceira Red EducationFabricantePrivileged access and identity security.
176. 19991999 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)FreeRADIUSPadrõesFabricanteAuthenticates about a third of the people on the internet, and has had the same project leader since 1999.
177. 19991999 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Infoblox - DDI, and why it is one productFabricanteDNS, DHCP and address management are three protocols and one source of truth.
178. 19991999 - hojeOrigem:CLNeoSecure - the Chilean halfServiçosChilean security company, leader in its home market, absorbed into SEK.
179. 19991999 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)QualysFabricanteDelivered security scanning as a service in 2000, before anybody had a word for that.
180. 19991999 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)SolarWindsFabricanteSold the software that watches everything, which is exactly why somebody wanted it.
181. 20002000 - 2010Origem:US (United States)ArcSightFabricanteDecided in advance what mattered, which is the opposite of what its main rival decided.Acquired by HP for about $1.5B, completing 22 October 2010. The product line then passed to HPE in the 2015 split, to Micro Focus on 1 September 2017, and to OpenText in 2023 - four owners in thirteen years.
182. 20002000 - hojeOrigem:FR (France)Atos - the estate somebody else runsServiçosLarge-scale IT outsourcing, where the contract decides the architecture.
183. 20002000 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)AvayaParceira Red EducationFabricanteEnterprise communications: Aura, IP Office, and contact center.
184. 20002000 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Cipher - the other one that was boughtServiçosA large Brazilian security firm acquired by a physical-security multinational, two years before the same thing happened to its rival.
185. 20002000 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)FortinetParceira Red Educationinstrutor autorizadoTrabalha comFabricanteFounded by the man who had already built one firewall company, on the same argument taken further.
186. 20002000 - 2007Origem:US (United States)IronPort SystemsVivido por dentroFabricanteWorked out that the useful question about an email was not what it contained but who sent it.Acquired by Cisco for approximately $830M, announced January 2007, and folded into Cisco's security business.
187. 20002000 - hojeOrigem:IE (Ireland)Kemp TechnologiesFabricantePriced the load balancer for the administrator rather than the committee, and went virtual before the market did.
188. 20002000 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Rapid7FabricanteBought the industry's best-known attack toolkit, which is the opposite of what its main competitor did with open source.
189. 20002000 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Tempest - cybersecurity out of RecifeServiçosBrazil's largest specialist security firm, built outside the Sao Paulo axis and bought by an aircraft manufacturer.
190. 20012001 - hojeOrigem:CA (Canada)BlueCat Networks - DDI, from the operations sideFabricanteDNS, DHCP and address management sold as network operations rather than as infrastructure.
191. 20012001 - hojeOrigem:DE (Germany)Damovo - a division that outlived three ownersServiçosRevendaEuropean technology services company spun out of Ericsson in 2001, now owned by Global Growth.
192. 20012001 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Dyn - managed DNS, and the day it went downFabricanteServiçosManaged DNS and dynamic DNS provider, later acquired by Oracle.
193. 20012001 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)EC-CouncilTreinamentoPadrõesThe most required certification in its field, and the most argued about, which are the same fact seen twice.
194. 20012001 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)FireMon - watching the policy changeFabricanteThe value is not the audit; it is noticing the day after the audit.
195. 20012001 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)KryterionTreinamentoServiçosThe same parent that founded Prometric, doing it a second time - and proctoring online fourteen years before everyone had to.
196. 20012001 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Seal Sistemas - the barcode is an interfaceServiçosRevendaBrazilian integrator in mobility, automation and enterprise visibility, founded 2001.
197. 20022002 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Adistec - distribution written for a region, not a countryDistribuiçãoValue-added distributor for Latin America and the Caribbean, founded 2002, headquartered in Miami.
198. 20022002 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Altasnet - IT from Belo HorizonteRevendaServiçosBrazilian integrator covering cybersecurity, networks, data centre and cloud, with more than twenty years in the market.
199. 20022002 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Imperva - from WebCohort to ThalesFabricanteThe WAF pioneer founded by a Check Point co-founder, now the application-security arm of a French defense giant.
200. 20022002 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)InLearn - official training, BrazilTrabalhou diretamenteTreinamentoBrazilian authorised training centre for F5 and Fortinet courses.
201. 20022002 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)IT-ONE - supply and integration in one placeRevendaServiçosBrazilian IT integrator covering cloud, cybersecurity, infrastructure and observability.
202. 20022002 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Ping IdentityParceira Red EducationTrabalha comFabricanteBet early that identity would have to work between organisations, not just inside one.
203. 20022002 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Procera Networks - the company that reads the trafficFabricanteDeep packet inspection vendor, taken private in 2015 and merged into Sandvine in 2017.
204. 20022002 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Proofpoint - the mail gateway, stillFabricanteEmail remained the way in long after the industry stopped finding it interesting.
205. 20022002 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)RiverbedParceira Red EducationFabricanteWAN optimization pioneer turned observability company.
206. 20022002 - hojeOrigem:IL (Israel)Skybox Security - attack paths, and an endingFabricanteModelled how an attacker would traverse the network you documented, and was absorbed by a competitor.
207. 20022002 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)SpaceX - low orbit, and what it does to the latency floorOperadoraThe constraint that could not be engineered away was engineered around, by moving the satellites.
208. 20022002 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)TenableFabricanteBuilt on a scanner a seventeen-year-old wrote, and then closed the source to fund the company.
209. 20032003 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Barracuda Networks - security for the estates nobody writes aboutFabricanteBuilt a business where the budget is small, the staff is one person, and the threat is identical.
210. 20032003 - hojeOrigem:FR (France)Exclusive Networks - distribution with five hundred engineersDistribuiçãoFrench specialist cybersecurity distributor, listed on Euronext Paris in 2021 and taken private again from 2024.
211. 20032003 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)HighCast - the consultancy that built a training companyServiçosBrazilian network consultancy working on carrier backbones across Latin America.
212. 20032003 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)LogRhythm - the SIEM problem, stated honestlyFabricanteCollecting everything is easy; the cost is that somebody has to read it.
213. 20032003 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Netbr - identity, before anybody called it thatServiçosBrazilian identity and access management specialist founded 2003, acquired by SEK in 2025.
214. 20032003 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Penso - a million mailboxes and an early provider behind itServiçosBrazilian IT services company founded 2003, whose founders helped create one of the country’s first internet providers.
215. 20032003 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)ReadyTech - the class starts whether the lab is ready or notTreinamentoVirtual training platform for hands-on laboratories in instructor-led and self-paced delivery.
216. 20032003 - 2024Origem:US (United States)SplunkFabricanteNamed after caving, because that is what searching your own logs felt like.Acquired by Cisco for approximately $28B, announced 21 September 2023 and completed 18 March 2024. It continues as a Cisco business unit.
217. 20032003 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)WDC Networks - distribution that manufacturesDistribuiçãoBrazilian technology distributor founded in 2003, listed on B3, working a technology-as-a-service model.
218. 20042004 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)A10 NetworksFabricanteAttacked application delivery from the throughput flank, where the traffic is heaviest.
219. 20042004 - hojeOrigem:IL (Israel)AlgoSec - policy from the application's point of viewFabricanteAsks which application a rule serves, which is the question the rule does not record.
220. 20042004 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Arista NetworksParceira Red EducationFabricanteCloud-scale data-center and campus networking (EOS).
221. 20042004 - hojeOrigem:FR (France)EfficientIP - DDI with the security case attachedFabricanteDDI vendor whose positioning leads with DNS security rather than address management.
222. 20042004 - 2015Origem:BR (Brazil)Network1Vivido por dentroDistribuiçãoBought by the company its own buyer had bought four years earlier.Acquired by ScanSource - announced 15 August 2014 and completed in January 2015. Traded as Network1-ScanSource for years afterwards and became ScanSource's Latin American communications business.
223. 20042004 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Ruckus - six owners in ten yearsFabricanteWireless networking company founded 2004, passed through Brocade, Arris, CommScope, Vistance and Belden.
224. 20052005 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)BrightCloudFabricanteThe classification layer underneath other people's security products, including its founder's former employer's competitors.
225. 20052005 - hojeOrigem:AT (Austria)DynatraceFabricanteRewrote its entire platform from scratch under private-equity ownership, which is not how that story usually goes.
226. 20052005 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Grupo Binario - the Juniper integrator, and its training armRevendaServiçosTreinamentoChose one vendor at founding and built a certification pipeline around it.
227. 20052005 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)OpenDNS - the resolver that became a security productFabricanteA public DNS resolver acquired by Cisco and rebuilt as Umbrella.
228. 20052005 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Palo Alto NetworksParceira Red EducationTrabalhou diretamenteFabricanteFounded by a Check Point alumnus on the argument that port numbers had stopped meaning anything.
229. 20052005 - hojeOrigem:AU (Australia)Red EducationTrabalha dentroTreinamentoServiçosTraining is distributed the same way products are, and this is what that looks like.
230. 20052005 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)SailPoint - governance, which is the unglamorous half of identityFabricanteAuthentication asks who you are. Governance asks why you still have that access.
231. 20052005 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)TIVITServiçosData centerA professional tennis player, a nightclub, and a company built by merging two others somebody already owned.
232. 20052005 - hojeOrigem:IL (Israel)Tufin - firewall policy, read back to youFabricanteA company whose product is understanding the rules you already wrote.
233. 20052005 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Ubiquiti - enterprise features at prosumer pricesFabricanteairMAX armed the WISPs, UniFi made the controller model a $200 purchase - and two incidents every security reader should know cold.
234. 20052005 - hojeOrigem:PLVersim - distribution and training, PolandTrabalhou diretamenteDistribuiçãoTreinamentoPolish distributor and authorised training centre for Extreme Networks.
235. 20062006 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Amazon Web ServicesParceira Red EducationFabricanteData centerServiçosThe cloud platform that defined the category.
236. 20062006 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)AX4B - one product, then a catalogueRevendaServiçosSao Paulo integrator founded in 2006 around Microsoft Dynamics AX, later expanding by acquisition.
237. 20062006 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Gantech - cloud security, by its acronymsServiçosRevendaBrazilian information-security firm specialising in cloud workload and posture protection.
238. 20062006 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Skytap - the laboratory is the hard partTreinamentoData centerCloud environment platform founded 2006 by university researchers, widely used for virtual training labs.
239. 20062006 - hojeOrigem:CH (Switzerland)VeeamFabricanteThe side project ate the main business, twice - and a previous exit was the only funding round for a decade.
240. 20072007 - hojeOrigem:IL (Israel)CloudShareTreinamentoServiçosIts founder bought it back from the investors for four dollars, then ran it profitably for a decade.
241. 20072007 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)CPM Braxis - the largest Brazilian IT services company, soldServiçosBrazilian IT services firm acquired by Capgemini in 2010 and absorbed into its brand by 2012.
242. 20072007 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Flipside - the organisation behind RoadsecServiçosTreinamentoRan the security event that reached the people conferences usually price out.
243. 20072007 - 2020Origem:US (United States)MobileIronParceira Red EducationFabricanteMobile device management pioneer, now part of Ivanti.Acquired by Ivanti, announced September 2020 and completed 1 December, alongside Pulse Secure.
244. 20072007 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)NivaRevendaServiçosAn integrator whose partner list is a map of this timeline.
245. 20072007 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)NTSec Group - security bought by the public sectorRevendaServiçosTreinamentoBrazilian security integrator headquartered in Brasilia, with branches in eight states and its own academy.
246. 20072007 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)OffSec (Offensive Security)TreinamentoFabricanteGives the tool away and charges for the proof that you can use it.
247. 20072007 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)ZscalerParceira Red EducationTrabalha comFabricanteArgued that if users are not in the office, the security stack should not be either.
248. 20082008 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Conviso - application security, from BrazilServiçosThe part of security that has to be argued with developers rather than configured on a device.
249. 20082008 - hojeOrigem:FR (France)Sagemcom - the box in the house nobody choseFabricanteFrench manufacturer of broadband gateways, set-top boxes and meters, carved out of Safran in 2008.
250. 20092009 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)CloudflareFabricanteServiçosBegan as a project asking where spam came from, and became infrastructure after users asked it to stop the spam instead.
251. 20092009 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)NutanixParceira Red EducationFabricanteHybrid multicloud and hyper-converged infrastructure.
252. 20092009 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Proof - managed detection, and another one absorbedServiçosRio de Janeiro security firm acquired by SEK in 2024.
253. 20092009 - hojeOrigem:GB (United Kingdom)Raspberry Pi - the machine you are allowed to breakFabricanteTreinamentoSingle-board computer created to get computing back into teaching, now embedded across networking and lab work.
254. 20102010 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)CYLK - security integration, Sao PauloVivido por dentroRevendaServiçosA Brazilian security integrator: the practice of making other people's products work together in somebody else's estate.
255. 20102010 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)DatadogFabricanteThe founding problem was two teams looking at different data during the same outage.
256. 20112011 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)CrowdStrikeFabricanteBuilt on the argument that you should hunt the attacker rather than the malware - then proved, in one morning, what a lightweight agent everywhere really means.
257. 20122012 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)CredlyTreinamentoFabricanteVerifies the credential, as its owner verifies the person - and the small company bought the big one's product before the big one bought it.
258. 20122012 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)e-Safer - cybersecurity and fraud, togetherServiçosBrazilian security firm whose practice pairs cybersecurity with fraud prevention.
259. 20122012 - hojeOrigem:NL (Netherlands)ElasticFabricanteChanged its licence to stop a cloud provider, got forked, and changed it back three years later.
260. 20122012 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)NetskopeParceira Red Educationinstrutor autorizadoTrabalha comFabricanteStarted from the observation that nobody knew which cloud applications their own staff were using.
261. 20122012 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Versa Networks - the SASE independentFabricanteTwo ex-Riverstone, ex-Juniper brothers building unified SASE - one of the last large independents in a consolidated market.
262. 20132013 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)IllumioFabricanteAssumed the attacker is already inside, and made the whole product about what happens next.
263. 20132013 - hojeOrigem:CH (Switzerland)Nozomi NetworksFabricanteBuilt on the constraint that you cannot scan an industrial network without risking the plant.
264. 20142014 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)KentikFabricanteThe people who ran the networks built the tool they could not buy.
265. 20142014 - 2020Origem:US (United States)Pulse SecureTrabalhou diretamenteFabricanteA company created to hold a product line older than itself.Acquired by Ivanti alongside MobileIron, announced September 2020 and completed 1 December.
266. 20142014 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Unentel - collaboration, networks, and the parts nobody photographsRevendaServiçosBrazilian reseller in unified communications and network security, with rental and post-sales as named business lines.
267. 20152015 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)OpenAIFabricanteFounded as a non-profit hedge against AI being controlled by one company, and now largely owned by one company.
268. 20162016 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Conversys - infrastructure and the network operations behind itRevendaServiçosBrazilian integrator covering hybrid cloud, enterprise networking, SD-WAN and security, with its own network operations centre.
269. 20162016 - hojeOrigem:CH (Switzerland)Quad9 - a public resolver that blocks by defaultServiçosSwiss-based public recursive resolver that refuses to answer for known-malicious domains.
270. 20172017 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)DXC Technology - what a merger of service businesses inheritsServiçosFormed from two large IT services organisations, and therefore from their contracts.
271. 20172017 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)IvantiFabricanteA 2017 company assembled from forty years of other people's software, and the place two vendors on this site came to rest.
272. 20182018 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)NV7 Soluções TecnológicasRevendaServiçosPublishes its own security policies, which is rarer among security companies than it should be.
273. 20182018 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Q13 - half the revenue is public moneyServiçosRevendaBrazilian integrator founded 2018, working across cloud, security, networks and collaboration.
274. 20182018 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Sage Networks - mitigation is a network problemServiçosBrazilian network engineering firm founded 2018, specialising in denial-of-service defence.
275. 20192019 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)Cyble - selling what it also gives awayFabricanteThreat intelligence company covering dark web monitoring, attack surface management and takedowns.
276. 20192019 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)NextDNS - the resolver as a configurable filterServiçosPublic resolver where the blocklists, logging and retention are the user's settings.
277. 20212021 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)AnthropicFabricanteFounded by people who left OpenAI over where it was going, and built around the bet that safety research and frontier capability have to happen in the same building.
278. 20212021 - hojeOrigem:US (United States)KyndrylServiçosThe largest technology spin-off by headcount, and independence was the point rather than the price.
279. 20212021 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)QD7 - the regulation is the way inServiçosTreinamentoSao Paulo cybersecurity consultancy combining monitoring, incident response and awareness training with LGPD work.
280. 20232023 - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)SEK - a security company assembled by a fundServiçosLatin American cybersecurity firm created by Patria Investimentos from NeoSecure and Proteus.
281. - hojeOrigem:DE (Germany)Fast Lane - the independent that teaches the manufacturers’ coursesTreinamentoGlobal IT training company delivering authorised curricula for Cisco, Microsoft, Aruba, NetApp and others.
282. - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Grupo IHC - a consultancy, a school and an integratorServiçosTreinamentoBrazilian group whose three companies were founded in sequence, each out of the one before.
283. - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)LAN Professional - the Cabletron channel in BrazilTrabalhou diretamenteDistribuiçãoTreinamentoSao Paulo distributor and authorised training centre for Cabletron, Enterasys, F5 Networks and IronPort.
284. - 2007Origem:BR (Brazil)Mude - the distributor at the centre of Operacao PersonaDistribuiçãoBrazilian Cisco importer investigated from 2007 in a federal foreign-trade fraud case.Operacao Persona was launched on 16 October 2007. The company does not trade; this timeline records it because of the case rather than in spite of it.
285. - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Multiplus Ciberseguranca - the delivery layer, securedRevendaServiçosBrazilian cybersecurity firm covering data protection, endpoints, application delivery and observability.
286. - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Proteus - the Brazilian halfServiçosBrazilian security company bought by Patria in 2021 and merged into SEK.
287. - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)QoS - a Juniper training centre for Latin AmericaTreinamentoServiçosTeaching the manufacturer's certification courses since 2006, from inside an integrator.
288. - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Sisco - Sistemas e ComputadoresFabricanteBrazilian computer manufacturer of the market-reserve era, closed in 2001.
289. - hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)WZTech Networks - integration from the interiorServiçosRevendaMulti-brand Brazilian integrator in Sao Jose do Rio Preto, covering data, voice and video infrastructure.