With the release of the 2024 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions, this introduction by Gartner helps you understand how best to use their reports - ultimately ensuring you select the best technology for your business requirements.
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Strategic Planning Assumptions
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By 2028, 75% of enterprises will use a common solution for backup and recovery of data residing on-premises and in cloud infrastructure, compared with 20% in 2024.
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By 2028, 75% of enterprises will prioritize backup of SaaS applications as a critical requirement, compared with 15% in 2024.
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By 2028, 90% of enterprise backup and recovery products will include embedded technology to detect and identify cyberthreats, compared with fewer than 45% in 2024.
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By 2028, 75% of large enterprises will adopt backup as a service (BaaS), alongside on-premises tools, to back up cloud and on-premises workloads, compared with 15% in 2024.
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By 2028, 75% of enterprise backup and recovery products will integrate generative AI (GenAI) to improve management and support operations, compared with fewer than 5% in 2024.
Market Definition/Description
Gartner defines enterprise backup and recovery software solutions as technology that captures a point-in-time copy (backup) of enterprise data in on-premises, hybrid, multicloud and software as a service (SaaS) environments. These solutions write this data to one or more secondary storage targets for the primary purpose of recovering it in case of loss.
Protecting and recovering business application data, irrespective of the underlying infrastructure type and its location, is more important than ever. As enterprises move toward more complex environments that include large and expansive amounts of business-critical data, enterprise backup and recovery software solutions protect these workloads, whether they reside in on-premises, hybrid, multicloud or software as a service (SaaS) environments.
These solutions are vital to organizations’ ability to recover data following events that cause it to become inaccessible. Whether such an event is accidental, malicious or environmental, organizations use these solutions to recover and restore access to the affected data accurately and efficiently.
Solutions must offer effective capabilities to simplify the management of data protection across complex enterprise environments. They must also ensure reliable recovery not just from accidental or operational errors but also from data loss arising from constantly changing threats, and expedite and orchestrate data recovery responses to traditional disaster and ransomware events.
Must-Have Capabilities
Must-have capabilities of enterprise backup and recovery software solutions include:
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Backup of data and systems across on-premises and hybrid multicloud environments. On-premises requirements include protection of operating systems, files, databases, virtual machines and applications. Cloud requirements include protection of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), database as a service (DBaaS) and SaaS.
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Recovery of data and systems from any failure or data loss scenario, such as operational, system or application failure, accidental error, natural disaster and cyberattack. This demands capabilities to implement backup and data management policies to support an enterprise’s business requirements for recovery point objectives (RPOs), recovery time objectives (RTOs), resilience, data life cycle and compliance.
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Integration with immutable backup storage target(s) or delivery of vendor-provided immutable storage.
Standard Capabilities
Standard capabilities of enterprise backup and recovery software solutions include:
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Protection of critical data in SaaS or PaaS applications, such as Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Entra ID, Salesforce applications, and other sources including object storage and containers.
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A centralized console for management of distributed backup solution infrastructure across hybrid and multicloud environments.
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Enhanced security capabilities, such as integration with privileged access management solutions, multifactor authentication, role-based access controls and multiperson change validation; security information and event management (SIEM) and security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) integration; and advanced security reporting and logging.
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Enhanced cyber recovery readiness capabilities, such as vendor-developed or third-party integrated anomaly and entropy detection; malware and signature-based detection; and immutable data vault and isolated recovery environment offerings.
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Orchestration of disaster and cyber recovery testing and processes.
Optional Capabilities
Optional capabilities of enterprise backup and recovery software solutions include:
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Protection of additional workloads and support for use cases such as edge/remote branch office sites, endpoints and large language model (LLM) infrastructure and data.
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A vendor-hosted, SaaS-based control plane to manage and orchestrate complex and distributed environments.
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A vendor-hosted backup as a service (BaaS) offering to deliver backup and recovery services for hybrid and multicloud environments.
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Generative AI features to simplify administration, improve support services, and accelerate backup and recovery procedures.
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Support for expanded data backup use cases to assist data discovery, security, compliance, copy data management, testing and development, and e-discovery processes.
Vendors Reviewed in the Full Report Include:
- Arcserve
- Cohesity
- Commvault
- Dell Technologies
- Druva
- HYCU
- IBM
- Microsoft
- OpenText
- Rubrik
- Unitrends
- Veeam
- Veritas
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