We have some exciting news to share, and a series of wins worth celebrating.
The Portland Business Journal recently named Hydrolix one of the fastest-growing private companies in SW Washington and Oregon. For a company that has grown from 4 to 650+ customers in just a few years, being recognized is a meaningful milestone. But this recognition doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It’s the latest in a remarkable string of industry acknowledgements that, taken together, tell a story about what happens when you build a data infrastructure that solves real problems at real scale.
Here’s a look at what 2026 has brought so far.
Named One of the Fastest-Growing Companies in Oregon and the Pacific Region
The Portland Business Journal recognition arrives on the heels of another major growth acknowledgement: Inc. magazine ranked Hydrolix #4 out of 135 companies on the Inc. 2026 Regionals: Pacific list, which recognizes the fastest-growing private companies across California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, and Alaska.
That growth isn’t incidental. As our Hydrolix CMO Michael Cucchi put it when the Inc. recognition was announced: “We are growing so quickly because we are solving real customer problems. Collecting and making sense of petabyte-scale data overwhelms traditional platforms, but not Hydrolix.”
CRN Big Data 100: Data Observability Category
CRN’s 2026 Big Data 100 list named Hydrolix in the Data Observability category, a recognition aimed at helping solution providers identify the most valuable data tools to add to their portfolios. The listing underscores Hydrolix’s growing role as critical infrastructure for enterprises that need to make sense of massive, fast-moving data.
At the center of this recognition are our out-of-the-box analytics products: CDN Insights and Bot Insights. CDN Insights gives teams real-time visibility into content delivery performance across single- and multi-CDN environments without requiring custom engineering work. Bot Insights gives security, marketing, legal, and executive teams the extended historical visibility they need to move from reactive blocking to strategic, data-backed bot policy management. With Bot Insights, companies can understand the types of bots interacting with their digital assets, and the impact of them so that they can optimize the good, and mitigate the bad.
Data Observability Solution Provider of the Year for Three Consecutive Years
In April, Hydrolix was named Data Observability Solution Provider of the Year in the 7th annual Data Breakthrough Awards, our third consecutive win from this program. (Previous wins: “Cloud Enterprise Data Warehouse Solution of the Year” in 2024 and “Data Observability Innovation of the Year” in 2025.) The program received over 3,500 nominations globally, making each win highly competitive.
The consecutive recognition reflects something deliberate in our product philosophy: we don’t just ingest data; we make it useful in real time, at scale, without forcing tradeoffs between performance and cost. Whether a team is troubleshooting a CDN failure mid-event or tracking AI bot activity over months, Hydrolix is built to deliver the answer before the problem becomes a crisis.
Best of Show at NAB 2026: CDN Insights
At the 2026 NAB Show, Hydrolix took home a Best of Show award for CDN Insights, recognition from ITPro for standout innovation at one of the media and broadcast industry’s most competitive technology showcases. For teams running OTT infrastructure, live sports, and high-stakes streaming events, this award reflects why operators trust Hydrolix to be their CDN observability provider when it matters most.
TechRound AI45 2026: Ranked #4
TechRound named Hydrolix #4 on its AI45 2026 list, which highlights the most innovative AI-focused companies globally. The recognition speaks to the role Hydrolix plays in enabling AI-powered operations, from bot detection and classification, powered by long-retention behavioral data, to sub-second querying across petabyte-scale datasets that AI workloads demand.
Akamai ISV North America Partner of the Year 2025
Hydrolix was honored as Akamai’s ISV North America Partner of the Year for 2025 (announced in February 2026). The partnership between Hydrolix and Akamai, including the jointly offered TrafficPeak solution, has made full-fidelity CDN log analytics accessible to some of the world’s largest companies. This partner-of-the-year recognition reflects the depth of that collaboration and the outcomes it delivers for shared customers.
Gartner Hype Cycle for SRE 2026 and Gartner Hype Cycle for Security Operations 2026
Hydrolix was included in Gartner’s 2026 Hype Cycle for Site Reliability Engineering, an important signal of analyst community recognition. Inclusion in a Gartner Hype Cycle reflects meaningful traction in the market and validates the category-level problem Hydrolix is solving for SRE and operations teams managing distributed, high-volume environments.
Hydrolix was also included in Gartner’s 2026 Hype Cycle for Security Operations as a Sample Vendor in the Security Data Lakes category. The problems Gartner describes in the Security Data Lakes (SDL) section are exactly the problems Hydrolix is architected to solve. Our columnar storage, extreme compression ratios, and tiered architecture were built for high-volume, high-cardinality data that needs to be stored affordably and queried fast.
InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award Finalist
Hydrolix was named a finalist for the InfoWorld 2025 Technology of the Year Award (announced late 2025) in the Data Management and Streaming category. InfoWorld’s editorial team evaluates hundreds of products across the data ecosystem, making finalist status a meaningful mark of technical distinction.
Hydrolix: Solving Petabyte-Scale Problems
Across growth rankings, industry award programs, analyst inclusion, and trade show honors, the consistent thread is that the market is validating what we’ve been building. Enterprises and AI agents and models need to retain all their data, query it in seconds, and act on it before users are impacted. Legacy platforms force tradeoffs between speed, scale, and cost. Hydrolix doesn’t.
That value proposition is resonating.
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