Indústria

A indústria, vista de dentro

As genealogias corporativas de redes e segurança: quem fundou cada empresa, o que ela construiu, quem comprou quem e onde cada linhagem foi parar. Tudo escrito a partir de fontes primárias: documentos arquivados na SEC, relatórios de investigações oficiais e a imprensa especializada de cada época.

Antes de todas estas empresas: os marcos sobre os quais foram construídas →

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1. 18471847 até 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 até 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 até hojeAno de fundação:Shibaura SeisakushoOrigem: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 até 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. 18861986 até hojeInício da história:1886, BurroughsOrigem: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 até hojeAno de fundação:Electrical Factory N.V., part of Groeneveld, Van der Pol & CoOrigem:NL (Netherlands)GetronicsServiçosFabricanteA Dutch electrical firm from the 1880s that ended up owning what was left of Wang Laboratories.
7. 18951895 até hojeAno de fundação:Northern Electric and ManufacturingOrigem: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 até hojeAno de fundação:the Wireless Telegraph & Signal CompanyOrigem: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 até hojeAno de fundação:Compagnie Générale d'Électricité (Alcatel's root)Origem: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 até hojeAno de fundação:Nippon Electric Company, LimitedOrigem: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 até 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 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)HoneywellFabricanteA thermostat company that became a mainframe company and then went back to controlling physical things.
13. 19061906 até 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 até 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 até hojeAno de fundação:Computing-Tabulating-Recording CompanyOrigem: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 até 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 até 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 até hojeAno de fundação:Geophysical Service IncorporatedOrigem:US (United States)Texas Instruments - where the integrated circuit was demonstratedFabricanteSemiconductor company whose employee demonstrated the first integrated circuit in 1958.
19. 19311931 até 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 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)USP - where a lot of this startedTrabalhei diretamente com elesPadrõesServiçosBrazilian public university whose computing departments seeded the industry around it.
21. 19351935 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Arrow ElectronicsDistribuidorStarted on Radio Row selling used radios; lost thirteen of its leaders in one afternoon and rebuilt.
22. 19351935 até hojeAno de fundação:Fuji Telecommunications Equipment ManufacturingOrigem: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 a 2015Origem:US (United States)Hewlett-Packard - the garage, the HP 9000 and the splitFabricanteFounded in a Palo Alto garage in 1939; built the HP 9000 and HP-UX, OpenView and the LaserJet; merged with Compaq in 2002 and split in two in 2015.Split on 1 November 2015: the enterprise products and services business was spun off as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and the personal computer and printer businesses became HP Inc. HP-UX, which ran the HP 9000 and Integrity lines, reached the end of support on 31 December 2025.
24. 19391939 até hojeAno de fundação:Hewlett-PackardOrigem:US (United States)HPE Networking - HP, 3Com, Aruba, JuniperFabricanteThe great consolidation: from the Addison Avenue garage to the $14B Juniper merger.
25. 19481948 até 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.
26. 19481948 até 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.
27. 19481948 até 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.
28. 19511951 a 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.
29. 19521952 até hojeCrypto AG - when the vendor was the adversaryFabricanteThe limiting case for every supply-chain argument: the intelligence services did not plant a backdoor, they owned the company.
30. 19521952 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Elgin - the point of sale, and everything attached to itFabricanteBrazilian manufacturer of commercial-automation equipment; recorded as the owner of Bematech.
31. 19531953 até hojePetrobras - the network that follows the oilTrabalhei diretamente com elesServiçosState oil company created in 1953, and one of the largest private networks in the country.
32. 19541954 até 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.
33. 19571957 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)AnixterDistribuidorA distributor wrote the specification that became Cat 5 and Cat 6.
34. 19571957 a 1998Origem: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.Acquired by Compaq in June 1998, then the largest merger in the history of the computer industry; Compaq was itself bought by Hewlett-Packard in May 2002. VMS outlived both owners: OpenVMS has been developed and supported by VMS Software Inc. since 2014 and now runs on x86-64.
35. 19581958 até 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.
36. 19601960 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Promon and LogicalisTrabalhei diretamente com elesServiçosRevendaAn engineering firm owned entirely by the people who work there, in a joint venture with a South African holding company's British subsidiary.
37. 19611976 a 2026Início da história:1961, Comm/Scope, a division of Superior ContinentalOrigem:US (United States)CommScope - the cable house that bought Bell Labs' structured-cabling brand, and sold it againTrabalhei diretamente com elesFabricanteCoaxial cable from Hickory, North Carolina, the SYSTIMAX structured-cabling brand bought from Avaya in 2004, and a 10.5 billion dollar sale to Amphenol in 2026.sold its Connectivity and Cable Solutions business, SYSTIMAX and the CommScope name included, to Amphenol on 12 January 2026; the listed parent became Vistance Networks on 14 January 2026
38. 19621962 até 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.
39. 19621962 a 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.
40. 19621962 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Unicamp - the other half of the São Paulo pipelineTrabalhei diretamente com elesPadrõesServiçosPublic university at the centre of a regional technology cluster.
41. 19641964 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Serpro - the federal government's data processingTrabalhei diretamente com elesServiçosData centerRuns the systems a Brazilian citizen cannot opt out of.
42. 19651965 até hojeAno de fundação:Liebert (Vertiv's physical-layer root)Origem: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.
43. 19671967 até hojeOrigem:FR (France)Capgemini - and the Brazilian services business it absorbedServiçosFrench IT services multinational; acquirer of the Brazilian firm TI Braxis.
44. 19681968 a 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.
45. 19681968 até 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.
46. 19681968 até hojeAno de fundação:IntelOrigem: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.
47. 19681968 até hojeAno de fundação:Central Telephone and Electronics Corporation (Century Telephone Enterprises from 1971)Origem: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.
48. 19691969 até 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.
49. 19691969 até hojeEmbraer - the state built an aerospace company and then sold itTrabalhei diretamente com elesServiçosFounded 1969 as a national champion, privatised 1994, third largest producer of civil aircraft.
50. 19691969 até 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.
51. 19691969 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Prodesp - the state of Sao Paulo, computedTrabalhei diretamente com elesServiçosData centerCreated in 1969 with two staff and no equipment; now runs the state's network and data centre.
52. 19701970 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Fatec - the technologist degree, and who it is forTreinamentoState technology faculties offering short applied degrees rather than full engineering courses.
53. 19711971 até 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.
54. 19711971 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Prodam - the city of Sao Paulo, computedTrabalhei diretamente com elesServiçosData centerMunicipal ICT company created in 1971, serving a city of more than twelve million people.
55. 19721972 até hojeOrigem:FR (France)CYCLADES (IRIA, France)PadrõesWhere the datagram was born.
56. 19721972 até 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.
57. 19721972 até 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.
58. 19721972 a 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.
59. 19741974 até 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.
60. 19741974 até 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.
61. 19741974 até 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.
62. 19741974 a 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.
63. 19741974 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Tech Data and SYNNEX (now TD SYNNEX)Trabalhei diretamente com elesDistribuidorA father sold it to his son for ten thousand dollars; it is now the largest technology distributor in the world.
64. 19741974 a 1992Origem:BR (Brazil)The Brazilian market reserve (Cobra, Scopus, Itautec)FabricantePadrõesA 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.
65. 19751975 até 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.
66. 19751975 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)MicrosoftParceira Red EducationFabricanteThe platform company: Windows, Azure, and Microsoft 365.
67. 19761976 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)AppleFabricanteLost the first round of the personal computer market badly, and won every round after it.
68. 19761976 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)CPqDTrabalhei diretamente com elesPadrõesServiçosTreinamentoThe state research centre that survived the privatisation of the state.
69. 19761976 até hojeOrigem:IN (India)HCLTechServiçosFabricanteTreinamentoStarted because IBM left India, and forty-one years later bought IBM's software.
70. 19761976 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)USRoboticsFabricanteWon three times with proprietary protocols, and gave up all three the moment a standard arrived.
71. 19771977 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)MicrocampTreinamentoThe pioneering was the audience, not the technology - and it taught on the machines the market reserve built.
72. 19771977 até 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.
73. 19771977 a 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.
74. 19791979 até 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.
75. 19791979 a 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.
76. 19791979 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Ingram MicroDistribuidorTwo schoolteachers started it, and it now moves fifty billion dollars of other people's products a year.
77. 19791979 até 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.
78. 19791979 até 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.
79. 19801980 a 1991Origem:US (United States)Ashton-Tate - dBASE II and IIIFabricanteA football-pool database written in 8080 assembly became dBASE II, 70 per cent of the microcomputer database market, and one of the Big Three; then dBASE IV shipped too early.Sold to Borland in September 1991 in an all-stock transaction; defunct October 1991. The dBASE line continued under Borland and later owners.
80. 19811981 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Bridge Communications - the box between the networksFabricanteBuilt the equipment that joined incompatible networks, then merged with 3Com in 1987.
81. 19811981 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)OlitelRevendaServiçosHas been making other people's telephones work for forty years, through four incompatible technologies.
82. 19811981 até hojeProgress Software - the company that owns the debugger, the load balancer and MOVEitFabricanteAn American software company that acquired Telerik, Ipswitch and Kemp, and in 2023 became the origin of one of the largest single data-theft campaigns ever recorded.
83. 19821982 a 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.
84. 19821982 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)CompTIATreinamentoPadrõesIts entire value was being owned by nobody, and in 2024 it was bought.
85. 19821982 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Compugraf (now CG One)RevendaA computer graphics company that became a security company, and kept the name for forty years.
86. 19821982 até 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.
87. 19821982 a 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.
88. 19821982 até hojeRSA Security - the company that fought Clipper, then shipped Dual_ECFabricanteNine years with a suspect random number generator as the default, a 10 million dollar contract, and a denial that answered a different question.
89. 19821982 a 2016Origem: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.Silicon Graphics, Inc. sold substantially all its assets to Rackable Systems in a sale finalised on 11 May 2009, and Rackable took the name Silicon Graphics International; Hewlett Packard Enterprise completed the acquisition of that company on 1 November 2016 at $7.75 a share, and the name ended there.
90. 19821982 a 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.
91. 19821982 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)SymantecParceira Red EducationFabricanteThe security brand of a generation, now Broadcom's enterprise line.
92. 19821982 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)TecBan - the machines belong to nobody in particularTrabalhei diretamente com elesServiçosBrazilian shared self-service network founded in 1982 by three banks, operator of Banco24Horas.
93. 19831983 até 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.
94. 19831983 a 2009Origem:US (United States)Borland - Turbo Pascal and the Big Four yearsFabricanteSold a $49.95 Pascal compiler by mail order in 1983, made Forrester's Big Four, bought dBASE, shipped Delphi, renamed itself Inprise, and ended inside Micro Focus.Acquired by Micro Focus: announced 6 May 2009 at $75 million, approved by shareholders on 22 July 2009 at $1.50 a share and completed in late July 2009. Micro Focus was itself acquired by OpenText in 2023, which absorbed the Borland portfolio into its application delivery management division.
95. 19831983 a 2013Origem:US (United States)Cabletron Systems and EnterasysTrabalhei láFabricanteSold 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.
96. 19831983 até hojeOrigem:ZA (South Africa)Dimension Data - integration at continental scaleRevendaServiçosA systems integrator that grew out of one region and was absorbed into a Japanese carrier.
97. 19831983 até hojeAno de fundação:The Domain Name System (RFC 882/883)Origem: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.
98. 19831983 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Microsiga - the bet that microcomputers would replace mainframesFabricanteBrazilian business-software company founded in 1983, renamed TOTVS in 2005.
99. 19831983 até 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.
100. 19831983 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)TOTVS - the software most Brazilian companies actually run onFabricanteBrazilian enterprise resource planning vendor, founded in 1983 and listed on B3.
101. 19841984 até hojeCDW - the reseller that sells to everyoneFabricanteBorn from a classified ad in 1984; the American archetype of the value-added reseller, and the place an F5 lab licence cost 108 dollars and a credit card.
102. 19841984 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Cisco SystemsParceira Red EducationTrabalhei láFabricanteDid not invent the router, but was the first to sell one that spoke everybody's protocol at once.
103. 19841984 até hojeAno de fundação:Dell (PC's Limited)Origem: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.
104. 19841984 a 1992Nantucket - ClipperFabricanteThe compiler that made dBASE III programs into standalone DOS applications; millions were built between 1985 and 1992, then the owner missed Windows.Sold to Computer Associates in 1992 for 190 million dollars; the product was renamed CA-Clipper and its last release, 5.3b, came on 20 May 1997.
105. 19841984 até hojeAno de fundação:NetScout SystemsOrigem: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.
106. 19841984 a 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.
107. 19851985 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)BeyondTrustFabricanteFounded as Symark in 1985, renamed for a company it bought in 2009, and merged into a company that took its name in 2018.
108. 19851985 até 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.
109. 19851985 até hojeSoow SigmaRevendaServiçosPartner named for Netskope in Brazil.
110. 19851985 até hojeOrigem:GB (United Kingdom)SophosFabricanteStarted in Oxford the year before the first PC virus spread, and is still here under its own name.
111. 19851985 até 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.
112. 19851985 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Tecnocomp - the network that reaches 200 citiesServiçosBrazilian IT services company founded 1985, working in managed services, infrastructure and data centres.
113. 19851985 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Westcon-ComstorTrabalhei láDistribuidorThe layer between the vendor and the reseller, which decides what is practical to buy in your country.
114. 19851985 até hojeAno de fundação:Zhongxing Semiconductor Co., Ltd.Origem: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.
115. 19861986 até 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.
116. 19861986 até 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.'
117. 19861986 até 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.
118. 19861986 até hojeTRTECRevendaServiçosExpert-level Fortinet partner in Brazil.
119. 19861986 até 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.
120. 19871987 até hojeOrigem:JP (Japan)Allied TelesisFabricanteJapan's global Ethernet workhorse, from media converters up.
121. 19871987 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Dolch (Kontron / Azonix lineage)FabricanteThe rugged luggable the Sniffer lived in.
122. 19871987 até hojeOrigem:NL (Netherlands)EPIParceira Red EducationTreinamentoData-centre training and TIA-942 certification.
123. 19871987 até 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.
124. 19871987 até hojeAno de fundação:McAfee AssociatesOrigem:US (United States)McAfee, FireEye & Mandiant - the road to TrellixTrabalhei diretamente com elesFabricanteThree security pioneers, one private-equity remix: Trellix and Skyhigh under STG, Mandiant inside Google Cloud, McAfee consumer private.
125. 19871987 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Quest Software - sold to buy something elseFabricanteSystems and database management vendor founded 1987, bought by Dell, then sold onward twice.
126. 19871987 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)StefaniniServiçosTreinamentoA teacher started it in a spare room, and teaching is what won the first work.
127. 19871987 até hojeAno de fundação:Allied Telesis (founded as Allied Telesyn)Origem: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.
128. 19871987 até 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.
129. 19881988 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Contacta - security across the layers, and a SOCTrabalhei diretamente com elesServiçosRevendaBrazilian security integrator running its own XDR-based security operations centre.
130. 19881988 até 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.
131. 19881988 até hojeTrend Micro - the vendor that buys the flaws it defends againstFabricanteFounded on a dongle, run by a co-founder since 2005, owner of the Zero Day Initiative - and the source of a 2005 update that did more damage in ninety minutes than the worm it targeted.
132. 19891989 até hojeOrigem:IE (Ireland)AccentureServiçosSpent years fighting to keep a name, lost, and it was the luckiest defeat in consulting.
133. 19891989 até hojeAno de fundação:ASUS (ASUSTeK Computer)Origem:TW (Taiwan)ASUS + AskeyFabricanteThe motherboard empire and its network-communications arm.
134. 19891989 até hojeAno de fundação:HTTP and the World Wide WebOrigem: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.
135. 19891989 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)SANS Institute - the cooperative that became the security profession's schoolTreinamentoFounded in 1989 by a former naval ship designer and his wife as a cooperative for exchanging technical information; now the largest security training organisation there is, with its own certification body, its own accredited college, and its own 2020 breach.
136. 19891989 a 1996Origem:US (United States)Tivoli Systems - management for everybody else's machinesFabricanteFounded by IBM people told to manage only IBM machines; bought by IBM seven years later for $800 million.Acquired by IBM on 1 March 1996 for approximately $800 million ($716 million in net cash). The name survived as IBM's Tivoli Software brand from 2002 until IBM began phasing it out in 2013; by 2016 the products had been renamed.
137. 19891989 até hojeOrigem:TW (Taiwan)ZyxelFabricanteThe modem-era first-mover from Hsinchu.
138. 19901990 até hojeOrigem:ES (Spain)Afina - the distributor Westcon bought to reach Latin AmericaDistribuidorSpanish security and data centre distributor, founded 1990, acquired by Westcon Group in 2012.
139. 19901990 até hojeOrigem:GB (United Kingdom)Arm - the processor almost nobody buys from ArmFabricanteFormed 1990; licenses a processor architecture rather than selling processors.
140. 19901990 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Bematech - a dissertation that became the tillFabricanteBrazilian commercial-automation manufacturer founded in 1990 in Curitiba, known for fiscal printers.
141. 19901990 até hojeBettaRevendaServiçosExpert-level Fortinet partner in Brazil.
142. 19901990 até 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.
143. 19901990 a 2019Origem:US (United States)Polycom - the triangle on every conference tableTrabalhei diretamente com elesFabricanteThe company that put a triangular speakerphone on every conference table, bought by a headset maker, renamed, and bought again by HP.acquired by Plantronics in July 2018 and folded into the Poly name in 2019; HP bought Poly in August 2022
144. 19901990 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)PrometricTreinamentoServiçosSix owners in thirty-five years, and the layer that deliberately does not write the questions it delivers.
145. 19901990 até hojeTLD HubRevendaServiçosBrazilian partner named in the Fortinet channel.
146. 19911991 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Agility - the infrastructure half of securityTrabalhei diretamente com elesServiçosRevendaSao Paulo integrator specialising in infrastructure and cybersecurity for critical environments.
147. 19911991 até 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.
148. 19911991 até hojeProlan - the promise measured in hoursServiçosA Sao Paulo integrator whose distinguishing claim is reach: support across more than 950 localities.
149. 19911991 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Teltec Solutions - Florianopolis, and a Cisco award for trainingTrabalhei diretamente com elesRevendaServiçosBrazilian ICT integrator from Santa Catarina, twice recognised by Cisco across Latin America.
150. 19921992 até 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.
151. 19921992 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Multiplus Ciberseguranca - the delivery layer, securedTrabalhei diretamente com elesRevendaServiçosBrazilian cybersecurity firm covering data protection, endpoints, application delivery and observability.
152. 19921992 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)NetAppFabricanteNamed itself after exactly what it sold, which turned out to be most of the strategy.
153. 19921992 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)ParxtechTrabalhei diretamente com elesRevendaServiçosSells the layer nobody photographs: cable, containment, power and the survey that decides where they go.
154. 19921992 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)ScanSourceTrabalhei láDistribuidorDistributed products that were on their way to becoming commodities, and tried to arrive first.
155. 19921992 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)TDec Network Group - networks and security, three countriesTrabalhei láRevendaServiçosA Brazilian network and security house that grew outward: Brazil, the United States, Portugal.
156. 19931993 até 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.
157. 19931993 até hojeOrigem:IL (Israel)Check Point Software TechnologiesParceira Red EducationTrabalho com elesFabricantePatented stateful inspection, invented the firewall market, and then watched its own alumni build the competition.
158. 19931993 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)CLM - value-added distribution across Latin AmericaDistribuidorThe layer that decides which security products a Latin American reseller can actually sell.
159. 19931993 até hojeConnectionRevendaServiçosExpert-level Fortinet partner in Brazil.
160. 19931993 até hojeEPAM Systems - the corridor between two worlds, and what a war did to itFabricanteFounded in a New Jersey apartment and a Minsk basement in 1993; by 2022 it had 14,000 engineers in Ukraine and 18,000 in Belarus and Russia, and the founder's silence became the story.
161. 19931993 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Ka SolutionTreinamentoServiçosCarries fifteen vendors' official curricula at once, which is a different business from carrying one.
162. 19931993 até 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.
163. 19931993 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Red HatParceira Red EducationFabricanteEnterprise open source: RHEL, OpenShift, Ansible.
164. 19931993 até 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.
165. 19931993 a 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.
166. 19941994 até hojeOrigem:GB (United Kingdom)NetcraftFabricanteServiçosThe company that has counted the web's servers every month since 1995, and now takes down a third of the world's phishing.
167. 19941994 até 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.
168. 19941994 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Pearson VUETreinamentoServiçosA certification is worth exactly what its verification is worth, and this is where the verification happens.
169. 19941994 até 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.
170. 19951995 a 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.
171. 19951995 até hojeAno de fundação:Brocade Communications SystemsOrigem: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.
172. 19951995 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Etek NovaRed - a Brazilian firm owned from Miami, then from SantiagoServiçosDistribuidorBrazilian information-security company, a Chilean-American joint venture from 2012 and wholly Chilean-owned from 2021.
173. 19951995 até 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.
174. 19951995 até 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.
175. 19951999 até hojeInício da história:1995, The Apache GroupOrigem:US (United States)The Apache Software FoundationPadrõesFabricanteThe web server that ran the web, built by eight people trading patches by email.
176. 19951995 a 2025Origem:US (United States)TrustwaveServiçosFabricanteThirty years of managed security from Chicago, owned in turn by a Singapore carrier, a Chertoff fund and a spun-out AT&T business.Acquired by LevelBlue, completed 19 August 2025, after Singtel (2015, $810 million) and the MC² Security Fund (January 2024, $205 million) had owned it; trustwave.com now redirects to LevelBlue.
177. 19961996 até hojeAno de fundação:CacheFlow (Blue Coat Systems from 2002)Origem: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.
178. 19961996 até hojeCESAR - the centre founded to stop people leavingServiçosA Recife innovation centre created in 1996 to keep technology professionals in Pernambuco, and an anchor of Porto Digital.
179. 19961996 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Extreme NetworksParceira Red Educationinstrutor autorizadoTrabalho com elesTrabalhei diretamente com elesFabricanteNetworking manufacturer of enterprise switching, wireless and cloud-managed network software.
180. 19961996 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)F5Parceira Red Educationinstrutor autorizadoTrabalho com elesTrabalhei diretamente com elesFabricanteNamed after a tornado, and spent thirty years moving up the stack from ports to applications.
181. 19961996 até 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.
182. 19961996 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Goldnet TI - thirty years of the same two vendorsRevendaServiçosBrazilian IT integrator with Cisco and Microsoft practices, working nationally.
183. 19961996 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)ISH Tecnologia - security with the governance attachedTrabalhei diretamente com elesServiçosBrazilian security company covering GRC, continuity planning, privacy and risk management.
184. 19961996 até hojeOrigem:LV (Latvia)MikroTik - Latvia's quiet giantFabricanteRouterOS on commodity hardware: the company that made carrier-grade routing affordable everywhere - and stayed independent.
185. 19961996 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Nava - three companies that became one nameTrabalhei diretamente com elesServiçosRevendaUnicom built the infrastructure, FlexVision built the software, and the merged company had to be both.
186. 19961996 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)NETGEARFabricanteThe company that put networking on the retail shelf.
187. 19961996 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)NetScreen and Juniper NetworksTrabalhei láFabricanteOne firewall company whose alumni went on to found or shape most of the others.
188. 19962000 a 2006Início da história:1996, Yago SystemsOrigem:US (United States)Riverstone NetworksTrabalhei láFabricanteSpun 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.
189. 19961996 a 2000Origem:US (United States)SixDegrees.comFabricanteThe first social network, and it failed because not enough people were online yet.Bought by YouthStream Media Networks in December 1999 for $125 million and shut down about a year later, on 30 December 2000.
190. 19961996 até hojeTechDECRevendaServiçosPartner named for both Extreme Networks and Netskope in Brazil.
191. 19961996 até hojeOrigem:CN (China)TP-LinkFabricanteThe volume king of consumer networking.
192. 19961996 até 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.
193. 19961996 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)YSSY - integration with the certificates to prove itServiçosRevendaA Brazilian integrator whose public face is a list of standards it holds.
194. 19971997 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Ixia and KeysightTrabalhei diretamente com elesFabricanteNetwork test, bought by the part of Hewlett-Packard that Hewlett and Packard actually started.
195. 19971997 até hojeOrigem:RU (Russia)KasperskyFabricanteWorld-class malware research and a geopolitical problem, in the same company, both real.
196. 19971997 até hojeOrigem:DE (Germany)PaesslerParceira Red EducationFabricantePRTG: the network monitoring standard of the mid-market.
197. 19971997 até 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.
198. 19981998 até 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.
199. 19981998 a 2009Origem:BR (Brazil)Brasil TelecomTrabalhei diretamente com elesOperadoraOne 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.
200. 19981998 até hojeDanresaRevendaServiçosBrazilian partner named in the Fortinet channel.
201. 19981998 até 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.
202. 19981998 a 2012Origem:US (United States)eEye Digital Security - Retina, and the hole Code Red came throughFabricanteThe Irvine company whose researchers found the IIS flaw that Code Red exploited in 2001, and whose Retina scanner ended up inside BeyondTrust.Acquired by BeyondTrust, then of Carlsbad, California; announced 10 May 2012, financial terms not disclosed. Marc Maiffret became BeyondTrust's chief technology officer.
203. 19981998 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)EquinixData centerTwo facilities managers left DEC because the telcos were refereeing a game they were playing in.
204. 19981998 até 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.
205. 19981998 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Oi - sixteen companies assembled into one, then unassembledTrabalhei diretamente com elesOperadoraBrazilian carrier created by the 1998 Telebras privatisation; filed the largest bankruptcy protection in Brazilian history in 2016.
206. 19981998 até hojeOrigem:NZ (New Zealand)TamoSoft - TamoGraphFabricanteA privately held Christchurch company whose TamoGraph does passive, active and predictive Wi-Fi surveys on Windows and macOS.
207. 19991999 a 2026Origem:IL (Israel)CyberArkParceira Red EducationFabricantePrivileged access and identity security.Acquired by Palo Alto Networks, completed 11 February 2026 ($45.00 in cash and 2.2005 Palo Alto Networks shares per CyberArk share); the brand became Idira by Palo Alto Networks in May 2026.
208. 19991999 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)FreeRADIUSPadrõesFabricanteAuthenticates about a third of the people on the internet, and has had the same project leader since 1999.
209. 19991999 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Infoblox - DDI, and why it is one productFabricanteDNS, DHCP and address management are three protocols and one source of truth.
210. 19992007 até hojeInício da história:1999, NetSaint, Ethan Galstad's projectOrigem:US (United States)Nagios - NetSaint, Nagios Core and Nagios EnterprisesFabricanteEthan Galstad's NetSaint of 1999 became Nagios in 2002 and a St. Paul company in 2007; its plugin model shaped a generation of monitoring.
211. 19991999 até hojeOrigem:CLNeoSecure - the Chilean halfServiçosChilean security company, leader in its home market, absorbed into SEK.
212. 19992001 a 2019Início da história:1999, Cain v1.0oxid.it - one man, one tool, and a site that is no longer thereFabricanteMassimiliano Montoro published Cain & Abel from a personal Italian domain for over a decade; the software taught a generation how switched networks really behave, and the documentation now exists only in the Internet Archive.The site stopped serving Cain & Abel in mid-2019. The Internet Archive holds the real page (the 4.9.56 release, footer “Copyright (c) 2001-2014”) through 21 June 2019; by late June 2019 the URL returned 404, and from 15 August 2019 it served only a small placeholder. The domain now shows a “Coming Soon” parking page. The last RELEASE was 2014; the site outlived it by five years.
213. 19991999 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Proteus - the Brazilian halfServiçosBrazilian security company bought by Patria in 2021 and merged into SEK.
214. 19991999 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)QualysFabricanteDelivered security scanning as a service in 2000, before anybody had a word for that.
215. 19991999 até hojeSalesforce - the company that declared the end of softwareFabricanteFounded in a rented apartment in 1999 with a crossed-out word on a badge; the customers' objection was the word control, and it was the right objection, and they bought it anyway.
216. 19991999 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)SolarWindsFabricanteSold the software that watches everything, which is exactly why somebody wanted it.
217. 19992004 a 2020Início da história:1999, the OpenNMS project at PlatformWorksOrigem:US (United States)The OpenNMS Group - OpenNMSFabricanteOne of the oldest open source network management platforms, started in 1999, with a company behind it since 2004 and NantHealth as owner since 2020.Acquired by NantHealth; the transaction closed on 22 July 2020, announced from Culver City on 27 July 2020 with no terms disclosed. OpenNMS continues as a NantHealth company with its own site.
218. 19991999 até hojeTippingPoint - four owners, and the bug bounty that outlived them allFabricanteAn Austin IPS company that changed hands three times in eleven years. What survived every sale was not the appliance but the research programme attached to it.
219. 20002000 a 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.
220. 20002000 até hojeOrigem:FR (France)Atos - the estate somebody else runsServiçosLarge-scale IT outsourcing, where the contract decides the architecture.
221. 20002000 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)AvayaParceira Red EducationTrabalhei láFabricanteEnterprise communications: Aura, IP Office, and contact center.
222. 20002000 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Cipher - the other one that was boughtTrabalhei diretamente com elesServiçosA large Brazilian security firm acquired by a physical-security multinational, two years before the same thing happened to its rival.
223. 20002000 a 2019Origem:IE (Ireland)Corvil - the microsecond, measured in DublinTrabalhei diretamente com elesFabricanteA Dublin company that turned packet capture into the trading floor's own measurements, and sold itself to a New York infrastructure provider in 2019.acquired by Pico in 2019; continues as Pico's Corvil Analytics
224. 20002000 a 2018Origem:FI (Finland)EkahauFabricanteWi-Fi design and survey software born in a University of Helsinki machine learning group, sold to Ookla in 2018 and carried into Accenture in 2026.Sold by Nexit Ventures to Ookla LLC, a Ziff Davis subsidiary, in October 2018, for a price the parties did not state and Helsingin Sanomat estimated at 100 to 130 million euros. The Ekahau products continue under Ookla, whose sale to Accenture was announced on 2 March 2026; the Ekahau site's footer now reads 'Ookla, LLC., an Accenture company'.
225. 20002000 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)FortinetParceira Red Educationinstrutor autorizadoTrabalho com elesFabricanteFounded by the man who had already built one firewall company, on the same argument taken further.
226. 20002000 a 2007Origem:US (United States)IronPort SystemsTrabalhei láFabricanteWorked 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.
227. 20002000 até hojeOrigem:IE (Ireland)Kemp TechnologiesFabricantePriced the load balancer for the administrator rather than the committee, and went virtual before the market did.
228. 20002000 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)LAN Professional - the Cabletron channel in BrazilTrabalhei diretamente com elesDistribuidorTreinamentoSao Paulo distributor and authorised training centre for Cabletron, Enterasys, F5 Networks and IronPort.
229. 20002000 até 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.
230. 20002000 até 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.
231. 20012001 até hojeOrigem:CA (Canada)BlueCat Networks - DDI, from the operations sideFabricanteDNS, DHCP and address management sold as network operations rather than as infrastructure.
232. 20012001 até hojeOrigem:DE (Germany)Damovo - a division that outlived three ownersServiçosRevendaEuropean technology services company spun out of Ericsson in 2001, now owned by Global Growth.
233. 20012001 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Dyn - managed DNS, and the day it went downFabricanteServiçosManaged DNS and dynamic DNS provider, later acquired by Oracle.
234. 20012001 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)EC-CouncilTreinamentoPadrõesThe most required certification in its field, and the most argued about, which are the same fact seen twice.
235. 20012001 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)FireMon - watching the policy changeFabricanteThe value is not the audit; it is noticing the day after the audit.
236. 20012001 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)KryterionTreinamentoServiçosThe same parent that founded Prometric, doing it a second time - and proctoring online fourteen years before everyone had to.
237. 20012001 a 2011Origem:CA (Canada)Q1 Labs - QRadarFabricanteA University of New Brunswick spinout whose security intelligence software became IBM QRadar, and then two products with two owners.Acquired by IBM; the deal was announced on 4 October 2011 and completed on 26 October 2011, and Q1 Labs' chief executive became general manager of IBM's new Security Systems division. In September 2024 the QRadar SaaS assets passed to Palo Alto Networks, while QRadar on premises stayed with IBM.
238. 20012001 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Seal Sistemas - the barcode is an interfaceServiçosRevendaBrazilian integrator in mobility, automation and enterprise visibility, founded 2001.
239. 20012001 até hojeUnder ProtectionRevendaServiçosExpert-level Fortinet partner in Brazil.
240. 20012005 até hojeInício da história:2001, Zabbix, Alexei Vladishev's internal monitoring toolOrigem:LV (Latvia)ZabbixFabricanteAlexei Vladishev's internal tool of 2001 became a Riga company in 2005 and a monitoring platform with offices on four continents, free and open source throughout.
241. 20022002 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Adistec - distribution written for a region, not a countryDistribuidorValue-added distributor for Latin America and the Caribbean, founded 2002, headquartered in Miami.
242. 20022002 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Altasnet - IT from Belo HorizonteRevendaServiçosBrazilian integrator covering cybersecurity, networks, data centre and cloud, with more than twenty years in the market.
243. 20022002 até 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.
244. 20022002 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)InLearn - official training, BrazilTrabalhei diretamente com elesTreinamentoBrazilian authorised training centre for F5 and Fortinet courses.
245. 20022002 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)IT-ONE - supply and integration in one placeRevendaServiçosBrazilian IT integrator covering cloud, cybersecurity, infrastructure and observability.
246. 20022002 a 2007Origem:BR (Brazil)Mude - the distributor at the centre of Operacao PersonaDistribuidorBrazilian 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.
247. 20022002 até hojeNetwork SecureRevendaServiçosExpert-level Fortinet partner in Brazil.
248. 20022002 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Ping IdentityParceira Red EducationTrabalho com elesFabricanteBet early that identity would have to work between organisations, not just inside one.
249. 20022002 até 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.
250. 20022002 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Proofpoint - the mail gateway, stillFabricanteEmail remained the way in long after the industry stopped finding it interesting.
251. 20022002 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)RiverbedParceira Red EducationFabricanteWAN optimization pioneer turned observability company.
252. 20022002 até 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.
253. 20022002 até 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.
254. 20022002 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)TenableFabricanteBuilt on a scanner a seventeen-year-old wrote, and then closed the source to fund the company.
255. 20032003 até 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.
256. 20032003 até hojeOrigem:FR (France)Exclusive Networks - distribution with five hundred engineersDistribuidorFrench specialist cybersecurity distributor, listed on Euronext Paris in 2021 and taken private again from 2024.
257. 20032003 até 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.
258. 20032003 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)HighCast - the consultancy that built a training companyTrabalhei diretamente com elesServiçosBrazilian network consultancy working on carrier backbones across Latin America.
259. 20032003 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)LogRhythm - the SIEM problem, stated honestlyFabricanteCollecting everything is easy; the cost is that somebody has to read it.
260. 20032003 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Netbr - identity, before anybody called it thatServiçosBrazilian identity and access management specialist founded 2003, acquired by SEK in 2025.
261. 20032003 até hojeNIC.br - the registry that funds the plumbingTrabalhei diretamente com elesPadrõesServiçosRuns .br, allocates the country's addresses, and spends the proceeds on infrastructure everyone uses.
262. 20032003 até 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.
263. 20032003 até hojePortSwigger - the consultant's side project that became the standardFabricanteDafydd Stuttard wrote tools to speed up his own consulting in a Cheshire market town, gave one of them an arbitrary name, and it became the default instrument of web application testing.
264. 20032003 até 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.
265. 20032003 até hojeSegertechRevendaServiçosPartner named for Extreme Networks in Brazil.
266. 20032003 a 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.
267. 20032003 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)WDC Networks - distribution that manufacturesDistribuidorBrazilian technology distributor founded in 2003, listed on B3, working a technology-as-a-service model.
268. 20032003 até hojeZivaRevendaServiçosBrazilian partner named in the Fortinet channel.
269. 20042004 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)A10 NetworksFabricanteAttacked application delivery from the throughput flank, where the traffic is heaviest.
270. 20042004 até 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.
271. 20042004 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Alura - a 36-square-metre room with six computers that became Brazil's largest technology schoolTreinamentoTwo brothers who wanted to be professors opened Caelum in 2004 on the block where they lived; the online platform of 2011 became Alura in 2013, and by 2025 the group they built, Grupo Alun, held FIAP, PM3 and StartSe.
272. 20042004 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Arista NetworksParceira Red EducationFabricanteCloud-scale data-center and campus networking (EOS).
273. 20042004 até hojeOrigem:FR (France)EfficientIP - DDI with the security case attachedFabricanteDDI vendor whose positioning leads with DNS security rather than address management.
274. 20042004 a 2015Origem:BR (Brazil)Network1Trabalhei láDistribuidorBought 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.
275. 20042004 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Pluralsight - the classroom that became a library, and the library that became collateralTreinamentoFour instructors with 5,000 dollars each flew to offices to teach Microsoft tools in 2004; the 2007 pivot to an online subscription made it a 3.5-billion-dollar company; by August 2024 its lenders owned all of it.
276. 20042004 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Ruckus - six owners in ten yearsFabricanteWireless networking company founded 2004, passed through Brocade, Arris, CommScope, Vistance and Belden.
277. 20042004 até hojeServiceNow - the help desk that became the workflow of the enterpriseFabricanteFounded alone, at fifty, by a chief technology officer whose previous company had collapsed in accounting fraud; a ticketing system that grew into the platform other systems are wired through.
278. 20052005 até hoje3CX - the first cascading supply chain compromiseFabricanteAn employee's personal download of a retired trading app from another vendor became the way into the build servers of a telephony product with twelve million users.
279. 20052005 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)BrightCloudFabricanteThe classification layer underneath other people's security products, including its founder's former employer's competitors.
280. 20052005 até hojeOrigem:AT (Austria)DynatraceFabricanteRewrote its entire platform from scratch under private-equity ownership, which is not how that story usually goes.
281. 20052005 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Grupo Binario - the Juniper integrator, and its training armRevendaServiçosTreinamentoChose one vendor at founding and built a certification pipeline around it.
282. 20052005 a 2022Origem:US (United States)MetaGeek - Wi-Spy, inSSIDer and ChanalyzerFabricanteA nights-and-weekends spectrum analyser from Boise that became the Wi-Fi field kit, then changed hands twice in two years.Acquired by Auvik in April 2022, terms not disclosed, and sold on to Oscium in October 2024; the tools continue under Oscium, and MetaGeek's own pages now redirect there.
283. 20052005 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)OpenDNS - the resolver that became a security productFabricanteA public DNS resolver acquired by Cisco and rebuilt as Umbrella.
284. 20052005 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Palo Alto NetworksParceira Red EducationTrabalhei diretamente com elesFabricanteFounded by a Check Point alumnus on the argument that port numbers had stopped meaning anything.
285. 20052005 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)QoS - a Juniper training centre for Latin AmericaTreinamentoServiçosTeaching the manufacturer's certification courses since 2006, from inside an integrator.
286. 20052005 até hojeOrigem:AU (Australia)Red EducationTrabalho láTreinamentoServiçosTraining is distributed the same way products are, and this is what that looks like.
287. 20052005 até 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.
288. 20052005 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)TIVITServiçosData centerA professional tennis player, a nightclub, and a company built by merging two others somebody already owned.
289. 20052005 até hojeOrigem:IL (Israel)Tufin - firewall policy, read back to youFabricanteA company whose product is understanding the rules you already wrote.
290. 20052005 até 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.
291. 20052005 até hojeOrigem:PL (Poland)Versim - distribution and training, PolandTrabalhei diretamente com elesDistribuidorTreinamentoPolish distributor and authorised training centre for Extreme Networks.
292. 20062006 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Amazon Web ServicesParceira Red EducationFabricanteData centerServiçosThe cloud platform that defined the category.
293. 20062006 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)AX4B - one product, then a catalogueRevendaServiçosSao Paulo integrator founded in 2006 around Microsoft Dynamics AX, later expanding by acquisition.
294. 20062006 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Gantech - cloud security, by its acronymsServiçosRevendaBrazilian information-security firm specialising in cloud workload and posture protection.
295. 20062006 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Kyndryl Cloud Uplift (formerly Skytap) - the laboratory is the hard partTreinamentoData centerCloud environment platform founded 2006 as Skytap by university researchers, widely used for virtual training labs; now Kyndryl Cloud Uplift.
296. 20062006 até hojeOrigem:CH (Switzerland)VeeamFabricanteThe side project ate the main business, twice - and a previous exit was the only funding round for a decade.
297. 20072007 até hojeOrigem:IL (Israel)CloudShareTreinamentoServiçosIts founder bought it back from the investors for four dollars, then ran it profitably for a decade.
298. 20072007 até 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.
299. 20072007 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Flipside - the organisation behind RoadsecServiçosTreinamentoRan the security event that reached the people conferences usually price out.
300. 20072007 a 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.
301. 20072007 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)NivaTrabalhei diretamente com elesRevendaServiçosAn integrator whose partner list is a map of this timeline.
302. 20072007 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)NTSec Group - security bought by the public sectorTrabalhei diretamente com elesRevendaServiçosTreinamentoBrazilian security integrator headquartered in Brasilia, with branches in eight states and its own academy.
303. 20072007 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)OffSec (Offensive Security)TreinamentoFabricanteGives the tool away and charges for the proof that you can use it.
304. 20072007 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)WZTech Networks - integration from the interiorServiçosRevendaMulti-brand Brazilian integrator in Sao Jose do Rio Preto, covering data, voice and video infrastructure.
305. 20072007 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)ZscalerParceira Red EducationTrabalho com elesFabricanteArgued that if users are not in the office, the security stack should not be either.
306. 20082008 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Conviso - application security, from BrazilServiçosThe part of security that has to be argued with developers rather than configured on a device.
307. 20082008 até 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.
308. 20082008 até hojeSecurity4ITRevendaServiçosPartner named for both Netskope and Check Point in Brazil.
309. 20092009 até 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.
310. 20092009 até hojeInorpelRevendaServiçosExpert-level Fortinet partner in Brazil.
311. 20092009 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)NutanixParceira Red EducationFabricanteHybrid multicloud and hyper-converged infrastructure.
312. 20092009 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)OktaFabricanteCloud identity for 10,000 organisations, the $6.5 billion Auth0 purchase, and the 2022 and 2023 breaches that showed what an identity provider's support desk is worth to an attacker.
313. 20092009 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Proof - managed detection, and another one absorbedServiçosRio de Janeiro security firm acquired by SEK in 2024.
314. 20092009 até 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.
315. 20092009 até hojeXZ Utils - the supply chain with no supplierFabricanteA two-year campaign against a burnt-out volunteer maintainer, caught by one engineer who noticed half a second of latency.
316. 20102010 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)CYLK - security integration, Sao PauloTrabalhei láRevendaServiçosA Brazilian security integrator: the practice of making other people's products work together in somebody else's estate.
317. 20102010 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)DatadogFabricanteThe founding problem was two teams looking at different data during the same outage.
318. 20102010 até hojeFreshworks - the help desk that started from a Hacker News commentFabricanteFounded in a 700-square-foot warehouse in Chennai in 2010 by a Zoho product head who read that a competitor had raised prices; the first Indian software-as-a-service company to list on Nasdaq.
319. 20102010 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)OsciumFabricanteOklahoma City instruments for the field tech's tablet, and since 2024 the home of Wi-Spy, inSSIDer and Chanalyzer.
320. 20102010 até hojeSecurewayRevendaServiçosExpert-level Fortinet partner in Brazil.
321. 20102010 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Udemy - anyone could teach, and ninety-five thousand didTreinamentoBuilt in 2010 by a founder from a Turkish village who had learned online because his school could not teach him; a marketplace of a quarter-million courses in seventy-five languages, absorbed into Coursera in May 2026.
322. 20112011 até hojeOrigem:CA (Canada)AuvikFabricanteWaterloo's cloud network management for MSPs: 100,000 networks, 12 million devices, and a $250 million cheque from Great Hill Partners.
323. 20112011 até hojeBy SevenRevendaServiçosExpert-level Fortinet partner in Brazil.
324. 20112011 até 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.
325. 20112011 até hojeHexaITRevendaServiçosExpert-level Fortinet partner in Brazil.
326. 20112011 até hojeWorld ZoneRevendaServiçosBrazilian partner named in the Fortinet channel.
327. 20122012 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Coursera - a hundred thousand students in a lifetime, delivered in a few weeksTreinamentoTwo Stanford professors put three courses online in 2011 and each drew more students in weeks than either could teach in a career; in 2026 the company they founded absorbed Udemy and became the largest learning platform there is.
328. 20122012 até 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.
329. 20122012 a 2025Origem:US (United States)CybereasonFabricanteThe endpoint detection company that found the NotPetya kill switch, raised more than $850 million, and ended inside a services company.Acquired by LevelBlue, announced 14 October 2025 and completed 25 November 2025; the brand folded into LevelBlue.
330. 20122012 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)e-Safer - cybersecurity and fraud, togetherServiçosBrazilian security firm whose practice pairs cybersecurity with fraud prevention.
331. 20122012 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)edX - the nonprofit that was sold, and the company that bought it went bankruptTreinamentoHarvard and MIT founded it in 2012 so anyone could take their courses free; in 2021 they sold it for 800 million dollars to a company that filed for bankruptcy three years later, with the money parked in a foundation that has barely spoken since.
332. 20122012 até hojeOrigem:NL (Netherlands)ElasticFabricanteChanged its licence to stop a cloud provider, got forked, and changed it back three years later.
333. 20122012 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)NetskopeParceira Red Educationinstrutor autorizadoTrabalho com elesFabricanteStarted from the observation that nobody knew which cloud applications their own staff were using.
334. 20122012 até 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.
335. 20132014 até hojeInício da história:2013, Grafana, Torkel Ödegaard's open source dashboardGrafana LabsFabricanteA dashboard side project of 2013 that became the open observability platform: $270 million at a $6 billion valuation in 2024.
336. 20132013 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)IllumioFabricanteAssumed the attacker is already inside, and made the whole product about what happens next.
337. 20132013 até hojeOrigem:CH (Switzerland)Nozomi NetworksFabricanteBuilt on the constraint that you cannot scan an industrial network without risking the plant.
338. 20132013 até hojeSolorRevendaServiçosBrazilian partner named in the Fortinet channel.
339. 20142014 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)KentikFabricanteThe people who ran the networks built the tool they could not buy.
340. 20142014 a 2020Origem:US (United States)Pulse SecureTrabalhei diretamente com elesFabricanteA company created to hold a product line older than itself.Acquired by Ivanti alongside MobileIron, announced September 2020 and completed 1 December.
341. 20142014 até hojeRCXRevendaServiçosExpert-level Fortinet partner in Brazil.
342. 20142014 até 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.
343. 20152015 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)OpenAIFabricanteFounded as a non-profit hedge against AI being controlled by one company, and now largely owned by one company.
344. 20152015 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)StartSe - a thirty-real course from a living room in Minas, and the missions to Silicon ValleyTreinamentoFounded in 2015 in the interior of Minas Gerais with a two-hour online course that cost thirty reais; a year later four former partners of XP Investimentos bought in, and the product became the week-long mission to Silicon Valley.
345. 20162016 até hojeBlue EyeRevendaServiçosPartner named for Zscaler in Brazil.
346. 20162016 até 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.
347. 20162016 até hojeOrigem:CH (Switzerland)Quad9 - a public resolver that blocks by defaultServiçosSwiss-based public recursive resolver that refuses to answer for known-malicious domains.
348. 20172017 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)DXC Technology - what a merger of service businesses inheritsServiçosFormed from two large IT services organisations, and therefore from their contracts.
349. 20172017 até 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.
350. 20182018 até hojeFocaldataRevendaServiçosExpert-level Fortinet partner in Brazil.
351. 20182018 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)NV7 Soluções TecnológicasTrabalhei diretamente com elesRevendaServiçosPublishes its own security policies, which is rarer among security companies than it should be.
352. 20182018 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Q13 - half the revenue is public moneyServiçosRevendaBrazilian integrator founded 2018, working across cloud, security, networks and collaboration.
353. 20182018 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Sage Networks - mitigation is a network problemServiçosBrazilian network engineering firm founded 2018, specialising in denial-of-service defence.
354. 20192019 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)Cyble - selling what it also gives awayFabricanteThreat intelligence company covering dark web monitoring, attack surface management and takedowns.
355. 20192019 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)NextDNS - the resolver as a configurable filterServiçosPublic resolver where the blocklists, logging and retention are the user's settings.
356. 20212021 até 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.
357. 20212021 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)KyndrylServiçosThe largest technology spin-off by headcount, and independence was the point rather than the price.
358. 20212021 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)QD7 - the regulation is the way inServiçosTreinamentoSao Paulo cybersecurity consultancy combining monitoring, incident response and awareness training with LGPD work.
359. 20222022 até hojeNowCyRevendaServiçosPartner named for Zscaler in Brazil.
360. 20232023 até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)SEK - a security company assembled by a fundServiçosLatin American cybersecurity firm created by Patria Investimentos from NeoSecure and Proteus.
361. 20242024 até hojeOrigem:US (United States)LevelBlueServiçosFabricanteAT&T's security services business, spun out in 2024, which bought Trustwave, Cybereason and Aon's cyber consultants inside eighteen months.
362. 20262026 até hojeVision Cybersecurity - a customer base sold on its ownServiçosThe corporate arm of ISH Tecnologia, acquired by SPX in 2026 and merged with Tempest.
363. até hojeOrigem:BR (Brazil)Sisco - Sistemas e ComputadoresFabricanteBrazilian computer manufacturer of the market-reserve era, closed in 2001.
364. até hojeOrigem:US (United States)SpiderLabsServiçosTrustwave's research, testing and incident response team, carried under its own name through three owners.