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Maker of Ootbi, an immutable backup appliance purpose-built as a ransomware-proof backup target for Veeam environments; hardware-enforced S3 Object Lock immutability ensures backup data cannot be deleted even with admin credentials.
Object First is a hardware and software company that produces Ootbi (Out-of-the-Box Immutability), an immutable object storage appliance designed specifically as a backup target for Veeam-protected environments, providing enterprise organizations with on-premises ransomware-resilient backup storage that is hardened by design against the administrator-level access that ransomware operators commonly abuse to destroy backup copies. The Ootbi appliance runs an immutable object store that enforces S3 Object Lock-compatible immutability policies on all data written to it — backup data written by Veeam cannot be overwritten, modified, or deleted by any user or process during the configured retention period, even if an attacker obtains storage administrator credentials. This hardware-enforced immutability model addresses the specific threat of ransomware operators moving laterally within IT environments to reach backup storage after compromising production systems.
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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