Tessell Named a Gartner® Cool Vendor in Data Management

We are proud to announce that Tessell has been recognized as a Gartner® Cool Vendor in Data Management: The ‘Modern Data Stack’ Grows Up. 🎉

This honor is one of the highest recognitions Gartner awards to emerging technology companies, and it validates the vision and relentless innovation that define Tessell. Out of a large number of startups nominated, Tessell was chosen as one of the select few to be featured — a clear signal that what we’re building is not just relevant, but transformative.

This recognition follows another milestone earlier this year when our customers voted us a Great Platform in Gartner’s Voice of the Customer (VoC) report, where we were named a Strong Performer. Taken together, these recognitions tell a powerful story: customers trust us, and analysts validate us.

Why This Recognition Matters

Being named a Cool Vendor is not just about technology — it’s about being seen as a company that is shaping the future of an entire industry.

Gartner introduced the “Cool Vendor” category to highlight companies that bring unique, innovative, and impactful solutions to market. For data management leaders worldwide, these vendors represent where the industry is headed next.

In their 2025 report, Gartner highlights a shift away from monolithic, one-size-fits-all platforms and toward lightweight, automation-first, AI-ready solutions. Enterprises want simplicity, speed, and flexibility — and Tessell is at the forefront of that shift .

What Gartner Said About Tessell

According to Gartner’s analysis, Tessell is cool because of the way we bring together performance, cost savings, and multicloud flexibility into one unified platform :

• Unified Multicloud DBaaS Platform: A single control plane for Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB — giving enterprises one consistent experience across clouds.
• Patented NVMe-to-Persistent Storage Technology: Unlocks significant performance gains and cost savings versus traditional cloud services.
  
  
• Multitenancy for Databases: Allows multiple workloads to run within a single VM, dramatically reducing costs compared to native cloud offerings.
• Cost Optimization & Consolidation: Particularly impactful for commercial database workloads, helping enterprises reduce overall spend while simplifying management.
• Proven Customer Impact: Customers report dramatic reductions in query running times and daily savings across production workloads.

One line from the report stands out in particular:

“Organizations that find entry-level DBMS offerings like RDS to be insufficient in meeting their production requirements but who want to maintain multicloud and multivendor flexibility” should look to Tessell.

This quote perfectly encapsulates the gap Tessell fills: while services like RDS may be “good enough” for entry-level workloads, enterprises need Tessell to thrive in a multicloud world.

The Customer Story Behind the Recognition

At Tessell, innovation has always been driven by our customers’ real-world challenges. This recognition reflects not just our technology, but the impact we’re delivering every day:

• Cost Optimization: Customers like Forbes have modernized critical workloads on Tessell, achieving substantial savings while improving performance.
• Performance Gains: Companies like Landys+Gyr improved speed and efficiency without making application changes — enabling faster, more reliable digital experiences.
• Operational Efficiency: By eliminating manual database firefighting, Tessell enables DBAs and developers to provision new environments in minutes and focus on higher-value innovation.

This combination of cost savings, performance improvement, and simplicity is why enterprises are turning to Tessell as the foundation for their AI-ready data estates.

What This Means for the Industry

The database landscape is at a turning point. For years, enterprises have relied on large, monolithic platforms that promised “one solution for everything.” But those platforms often come with trade-offs: complexity, high costs, and inflexibility.

Gartner’s recognition highlights a new generation of data management tools — lighter, faster, and built for an AI-driven future. Tessell embodies this shift by delivering:

• Simplicity without compromise — a single pane of glass for all databases across all clouds.
• Performance and efficiency — patented technology that unlocks the best of both NVMe performance and cloud persistence.
• Multicloud freedom — eliminating vendor lock-in while ensuring enterprises can run critical workloads anywhere.

For enterprises facing rising costs, complex data estates, and the need for AI readiness, Tessell is proving to be the modern alternative to “good enough” cloud services.

A Milestone for Tessell — and What’s Next

This recognition from Gartner is a moment of validation for the vision that drives Tessell: to make databases cloud-easy, cost-effective, and AI-ready.

But we see this as only the beginning. Our sights are now set on the next milestone: earning our place in the Gartner Magic Quadrant.

In the months ahead, we’ll continue to expand our platform, deepen partnerships with cloud providers, and scale the impact we deliver to Fortune 500 enterprises and beyond.

Most importantly, we’ll keep doing what we’ve always done: listening to our customers, solving real challenges, and building with innovation at the core.

Thank You

This achievement belongs to every Tessellator — the passionate team members who push the boundaries of what’s possible in data management every day. And it belongs to our customers, who trust us with their most critical systems and inspire us to keep raising the bar.

🔥 Onward and upward. This is just the beginning.