Gartner Magic Quadrant: Enterprise Backup and Recovery Solutions 2023

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Solutions 2023

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Gartner Magic Quadrant: Enterprise Backup and Recovery Solutions 2023

Published 7 August 2023

Magic Quadrant

As enterprises expand their use of hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments and SaaS applications, while managing the adaptive threat of ransomware attacks, I&O leaders must continually evaluate their backup and recovery capabilities. This study provides an analysis of backup and recovery vendors.

Market Definition/Description:

Gartner defines enterprise backup and recovery software solutions as solutions developed by vendors to capture point-in-time copies (backups) of enterprise workloads in on-premises, hybrid, multi-cloud, and SaaS environments. These solutions write data to secondary storage targets so that data can be recovered in the event of data loss. They can be offered as software-only, hardware, or virtualized appliances, or as a SaaS-based backup-as-a-service (BaaS).

Protecting and recovering business application data is now more important than ever (sysin) regardless of the underlying infrastructure type and location. As businesses move to more complex environments with large amounts of data, enterprise backup and recovery software solutions are expected to protect these workloads, whether they reside in on-premises, hybrid, multi-cloud or SaaS environments.

Enterprise backup and recovery software solutions are critical to an organization's ability to restore data after an event that renders the data inaccessible. Whether the incident is accidental, malicious, or environmental, organizations can leverage these solutions to effectively recover and restore access to affected data.

A data protection management solution in an enterprise environment must provide effective functionality to simplify complexity (sysin). They must also ensure reliable recovery by protecting backup data from the ever-changing threat environment, and accelerate and coordinate data recovery responses to traditional disasters and ransomware incidents.

Must-have features for a backup and recovery solution include:

Backup and restore data in on-premises data center infrastructure, including operating systems, files, databases, virtual machines, and applications
Backup and restore data residing in architectures and environments such as public cloud infrastructures (including multi-cloud and hybrid clouds), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and SaaS
Create multiple point-in-time copies of backups to support resiliency (sysin), disaster recovery, and other use cases
Assign multiple backup and retention policies consistent with the organization's recovery point and time objectives
Report the success and failure of backup/restore tasks

Standard features of the backup and recovery solution include:

Tiered backup of data to multiple targets, including public clouds, backup and recovery providers, and object storage
Integrate with immutable backup storage targets or backup and recovery vendors' own immutable storage
Coordinate disaster and ransomware recovery testing and processes
Centralized console for managing distributed backup solution infrastructure

Optional features that the solution can provide include:

Extend backup data use cases to support data discovery, compliance, replicated data management, test/dev, and e-discovery
Protect other workloads including containers, object storage, edge/remote branch office sites and endpoints
Vendor-developed or integrated ransomware data anomalies and malware detection
Immutable data warehouse and/or isolated recovery environment
bare metal recovery

Magic Quadrant :

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Leaders :

Rubric
Commvault
Veritas
Veeam
Cohesity
Dell Technologies

Challengers : see picture

Visionaries : see picture

Niche Players : see picture

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how to choose

Position technology players within a specific market.

Who are the competitive players in the key technology market? How can they help you in the long run? A Gartner Magic Quadrant is the pinnacle research for a specific market that provides a broad understanding of the relative position (sysin) of the market's competitors. Using a graphical approach and a unified set of evaluation criteria, the Magic Quadrant helps you quickly determine how well a technology provider is executing on its stated vision and understand its performance against Gartner's view of the market.

How to use the Gartner Magic Quadrant?

When considering technology providers for specific investment opportunities, use Gartner's Magic Quadrant as a first step.

Remember that focusing on the leader quadrant is not necessarily the best course of action. There are good reasons to consider market challengers. Niche players may suit your needs better than market leaders. It all depends on how the provider aligns with your business goals.

How does the Gartner Magic Quadrant work?

In the face of many markets with rapid growth and obvious provider differentiation, the Gartner Magic Quadrant graphically divides four types of providers:

The leader executes the current vision (sysin) well and is well prepared for the future
Visionaries know where the market is going, or have visions to change the rules of the market, but the execution is not satisfactory.
Niche players successfully focus on a small market segment, or have unclear goals, and fail to out-innovate and outperform competitors.
Challengers are currently doing well, or may dominate most segments, but have shown no understanding of the market's direction.