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Critical Capabilities for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions

Published: 22 August 2022

Summary

Critical data needs protection whether it is in the data center, in the cloud, in SaaS applications or at the edge. The range of locations is forcing I&O leaders to consider new backup products. This research evaluates products from 14 vendors based on 10 critical capabilities in three use cases.

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Overview

Key Findings
  • Protection of backups from ransomware and rapid recovery from large-scale data loss continue to be a key drivers for most clients considering replacing existing backup and recovery platforms.

  • Limited backup offerings from cloud vendors are being supplanted by enterprise backup solutions to improve data protection and make cloud data protection consistent with on-premises capabilities.

  • Backup as a service (BaaS) offerings are available from more vendors and support a wider range of data center, cloud and edge workloads. However, they continue to be largely tied to single cloud providers and have limited support for workloads hosted in other clouds.

  • Backup and recovery

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  • Acronis Cyber Protect
  • Arcserve UDP
  • Cohesity DataProtect
  • Commvault Backup & Recovery
  • Dell PowerProtect Data Manager
  • Druva Data Resiliency Cloud
  • HYCU Protégé
  • IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
  • Micro Focus Data Protector
  • Rubrik Security Cloud
  • Unitrends Backup Software
  • Veeam Backup & Replication
  • Veritas NetBackup
  • Zerto Platform
  • Scalability and Performance
  • Efficiency
  • Manageability and User Experience
  • Data Center Ecosystem
  • Cloud Ecosystem
  • SaaS Applications
  • Security
  • Ransomware
  • Reporting and Analytics
  • DR and Orchestration
  • Data Center Environments
  • Cloud Environments
  • Edge Environments

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Critical Capabilities: A deeper look into provider offerings

How does a Critical Capabilities report work?

As a companion to the Magic Quadrant™, a Critical Capabilities report scores competing products and services against a set of meaningful differentiators. It reveals which options are the best fit in various use cases to help you focus on the vendors best suited to your needs.

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