Best Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions of 2020 as Reviewed by Customers – Gartner

Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions from Gartner, Inc. defines the data center backup and recovery software market as being focused on providing backup capabilities for the upper-end mid-market and large-enterprise environments.

It defines the upper-end mid-market as being 500 to 999 employees, and the large enterprise as being 1,000 employees or greater. Protected data comprises data center workloads, such as file share, file system, OS, database, email, content management, CRM, ERP and collaboration application (such as content management solutions) data. Backup and recovery software products provide features such as traditional backup to tape, backup to conventional random-access media (such as a HDD or SSDs) or devices that emulate the previous backup targets such VTL, data reduction (such as compression, deduplication or single instancing), array and/or server-based snapshot, heterogeneous replication, and CDP.

Cohesity Product: DataProtect
The firm makes data work by consolidating secondary storage silos onto a hyperconverged, web-scale data platform that spans both private and public clouds. Enterprise customers begin by streamlining their backup and data protection, then converge file and object services, test/dev instances, and analytic functions to provide a global data store. It counts many Global 1000 companies and federal agencies among its rapidly growing customer base.
“Get on board early, because this product and vendor is going to take the world by storm,” said a senior IT systems engineer in the manufacturing industry.

Commvault Product: Complete Backup & Recovery, Hyperscale Appliance
The company is delivering data readiness. It’s committed to ensuring you can store, protect, manage, move, recover, and use your data. Always. It backup and recovery software helps you easily manage data in a consistent, compliant way. Its software automates mind-numbing IT tasks and makes your data work harder for you – so you can gain invaluable insights for your business. Solutions work on-prem and in the cloud, and work with the digital tools and procedures you’re already using. Get Commvault direct and through our global ecosystem of trusted partners. Keep your data accessible and actionable with a single solution that ensures your data is available – no matter what.
“Probably the best tool out there for data management and protection,” said a backup administrator in the services Industry.

Dell EMC Product: Data Protection Suite, Avamar, NetWorker, Integrated Data Protection Appliance, PowerProtect, Data Protection Suite for Backup
The firm, a part of Dell Technologies, enables organizations to modernize, automate and transform their data center using converged infrastructure, servers, storage and data protection technologies. This provides a foundation for businesses to transform IT, through the creation of a hybrid cloud, and transform their business through the creation of cloud-native applications and big data solutions. Services customers across 180 countries – including 99% of the Fortune 500 – with the a comprehensive and innovative portfolio from edge to core to cloud.
“It was easy managing all our backup with one single dashboard,” said a deputy chief manager in the finance industry.

Druva Product: inSync, Phoenix
The company delivers data protection and management for the cloud era. Built on AWS and offered as-a-Service, it delivers globally accessible, infinitely scalable and completely autonomous enterprise data resiliency. Through its patented cloud architecture, customers can transform backup data into an asset, making it more open and accessible to streamline governance, improve cyber resiliency, and gain critical insights to uncover opportunities and expedite decision making. Its SaaS platform enables customers to drive down costs by up to 50% by freeing themselves from the burden of unnecessary hardware, capacity planning, and software management.
“Best backup solution I’ve used to date,” said an IT manager in the miscellaneous industry.

Rubrik Product: Cloud Data Management
The firm enables enterprises to maximize value from data that is increasingly fragmented across data centers and clouds. It delivers a single, policy-driven platform for data recovery, governance, compliance, and cloud mobility.
“Easy to install, easy to use, and amazing support,” said a CIO in the manufacturing industry.

Veeam Product: Backup & Replication, Availability Suite, N2WS Backup & Recovery
The company delivers Cloud Data Management. It provides a single platform for modernizing backup, accelerating hybrid cloud and securing your data. With 365,000+ customers worldwide, including 81% of the Fortune 500 and 66% of the Global 2,000, Customer-satisfaction scores are the highest in the industry at 3.5x the average. Its global ecosystem includes 70,000+ partners, including HPE, NetApp, Cisco and Lenovo as exclusive resellers. Currently headquartered in Baar, Switzerland, Veeam has offices in more than 30 countries.
“By far it is the most comprehensive and robust solution in the industry,” said a system administrator in the services industry.

Veritas Product: NetBackup Appliances, NetBackup Software, Backup Exec
The firm is in data protection and availability. Over 50,000 enterprises – including 99 of the Fortune 100 – rely abstracts IT complexity and simplify data management. Veritas Enterprise Data Services Platform automates the protection and orchestrates the recovery of data everywhere it lives, ensures 24/7 availability of business-critical applications, and provides enterprises with the insights they need to comply with evolving data regulations. With a reputation for reliability at scale and a deployment model to fit any need, the company supports more than 500 data sources and over 150 storage targets, including 60 clouds.
“Very easy to manage and robust software for backup,” said a senior system admin in the services industry.