The editors at Solutions Review highlight what’s changed since the last iteration of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions and provide an analysis of the new report.
Analyst house Gartner, Inc. has released its 2022 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions. Gartner defines the marketplace as “Enterprise backup and recovery software solutions are designed to capture a point-in-time copy (backup) of enterprise workloads in on-premises, hybrid, multicloud and SaaS environments and write the data to a secondary storage target for the purpose of recovering this data in case of loss.” The analyst’s focus in this space is on transformational technologies and approaches.
Gartner goes into detail to list what it believes to be “core capabilities” among backup and recovery solutions, including: backup and recovery for operating systems, files, databases and applications in the on-prem data center, backup and recovery of public cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS as well. Core capabilities also encompass creation of multiple copies of the backup to support resiliency, disaster recovery, and other use cases like aligning multiple backup and retention policies with recovery objectives.
Enterprises looking for additional functionality than what Gartner mentions in its core capabilities, can sometimes be provided by the solution. These more forward-thinking features can also include other workloads like containers, edge, and remote branch office sites, as well as endpoints. Some of the best backup and recovery providers offer tiered backup data to multiple targets, and backup for data discovery, compliance, copy data management, ransomware protection, and orchestrated disaster recovery.
Gartner highlights the following providers in the enterprise backup and recovery software solutions market: Veeam, Commvault, Veritas Technologies, Rubrik, Dell Technologies, Cohesity, IBM, Arcserve, Druva, HYCU, Acronis, Zerto, Unitrends, and Micro Focus.b Gartner adjusts its evaluation and inclusion criteria for Magic Quadrants as software markets evolve. As a result, HYCU was added to this report for 2022.
In this Magic Quadrant, Gartner evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of 14 providers that it considers most significant in the marketplace and provides readers with a graph (the Magic Quadrant) plotting the vendors based on their ability to execute and completeness of vision. The graph is divided into four quadrants: niche players, challengers, visionaries, and leaders. At Solutions Review, we read the report, available here, and pulled out the key takeaways.