Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities
Tel Aviv SASE pioneer (founded 2015, Check Point co-founder) at $300M+ ARR (Sep 2025) and $4.8B valuation (Series G Jun 2025); first acquisition Aim Security AI Sep 2025 competing with Palo Alto Prisma SASE and Zscaler.
Cato Networks is a Tel Aviv, Israel-based SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) network security company — having raised over $1 billion in total funding including a Series G round in June 2025 at a $4.8 billion valuation — providing enterprises with a converged SD-WAN, network security (firewall, CASB, DLP, ZTNA), and XDR platform delivered as a cloud-native service from a global Points of Presence (PoPs) network. Founded in 2015 by CEO Shlomo Kramer (co-founder of Check Point Software, pioneer of the commercial firewall in 1993, and founder of Imperva in 2002) and President Gur Shatz (co-founder of Incapsula, cloud web application security), the company defined the SASE category before Gartner formally named it in 2019. Cato surpassed $250 million in ARR in 2024 (+46% year-over-year growth) and reached $300+ million ARR by September 2025, serving 3,500+ enterprises across 190 countries with 50,000 connected sites and 1.5 million remote users protected by zero trust network access (ZTNA). In September 2025, Cato completed its first acquisition — Aim Security — to expand AI security capabilities for enterprise AI agent adoption.
Armonk NY hybrid cloud and enterprise AI (NYSE: IBM) at $62.8B revenue; $6B+ generative AI bookings, record $12.7B free cash flow 2024, DataStax acquisition for watsonx vector database competing with Microsoft Azure for enterprise AI.
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an Armonk, New York-based global technology and consulting company — publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: IBM) as an S&P 500 component — providing hybrid cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence software, and enterprise IT consulting through approximately 270,300 employees in 170 countries with $62.8 billion in annual revenue. Founded on June 16, 1911, as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company through a merger orchestrated by financier Charles Ranlett Flint, renamed IBM in 1924 under Thomas Watson Sr., IBM has undergone multiple strategic transformations over its 110+ year history: building the System/360 mainframe platform (1964), launching the IBM PC (1981), selling the PC division to Lenovo (2005, $1.75B), and completing the $34 billion Red Hat acquisition (2019) that repositioned IBM as a hybrid cloud platform company. CEO Arvind Krishna (appointed April 2020) has focused IBM's strategy on three areas: hybrid cloud (powered by Red Hat OpenShift, the enterprise Kubernetes platform), AI (the watsonx platform for enterprise AI model development and deployment), and enterprise consulting. Under Krishna, IBM recorded $12.7 billion in free cash flow in 2024 (a company record), surpassed $6 billion in generative AI bookings since June 2023, and saw the stock price double — trading at all-time highs through 2024-2025. IBM announced the DataStax acquisition in 2025 to deepen watsonx's data layer with AstraDB (vector database for AI applications), DataStax Enterprise (Apache Cassandra), and Langflow (low-code AI agent development).
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