Top 3 Tech Leaders in Backup and Recovery Software 2023
Discover the leading technology solutions in Backup and Recovery Software with PeerSpot's annual Tech Leaders awards. The awards are based on comprehensive user reviews and other criteria as outlined below, offering you a window into the top products in this category and a way to explore and compare outstanding products. Join us as we unveil the Peerspot 2023 Tech Leader award winners, helping you stay informed about the best-in-class solutions available.
Backup and Recovery Software solutions are designed to safeguard and restore digital data and applications. They create secure copies of data, ensuring data availability in the event of data loss, hardware failures, human error, or cyberattacks. They play a fundamental role in disaster recovery planning and data management, helping organizations maintain business continuity and minimize downtime. Among the features they provide are the ability to create full, incremental, and differential backups, schedule backups to run automatically, and back up locally, on the cloud, or on a combination of both.
The Award Winners
Veeam Backup & Replication
Veeam Backup & Replication is designed to protect data and applications across virtual, physical, and cloud environments. It offers efficient data management, automated backup, and replication processes, enabling organizations to achieve high availability and resilience. Veeam is known for its comprehensive feature list, including instant VM recovery, and it stands out for its native integrations with various cloud platforms, making it an effective choice for hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures. It also provides data analytics and monitoring, helping organizations gain insights into their backup data.
"The biggest positive aspect is the fact that Veeam is relatively hardware-agnostic in regards to what you target Veeam on. This makes it, in the public sector space, very affordable for customers to get into and to have a really good backup and recovery solution." - reviewer991209, Inside Solutions Architect, Tech Services Company
"One of the standout features of Veeam Backup & Replication is its exceptional restore capability, enabling users to recover their data seamlessly. Another valuable functionality is the automated verification of backup restorations, made possible through the Sure Backup feature." - reviewer1053252, Technical Presales Consultant Engineer, Tech Vendor
"Ease of management was actually one of the main points for me. The second one is the SureBackup. SureBackup is the feature that allows you to automatically restore and check that the backups are consistent. Those are the two main points for our decision to choose Veeam." - SergeySenkov, System IT and Technologies Field Manager, Leumit Health Services
Zerto
Zerto is backup and disaster recovery software designed to ensure data and application availability. It stands out for its continuous data protection and near-zero recovery time objectives, providing organizations with minimal data loss in case of disruptions. Zerto takes a platform-agnostic approach, allowing businesses to replicate and recover workloads across different infrastructures, including on-premises and multi-cloud environments. Zerto also offers a journal-based recovery feature, enabling users to rewind and recover data to any point in time, further enhancing data resilience and flexibility.
"We are able to have continuous replication, and we are able to have the information available as per recovery point objectives (RPOs) and how much data to retain. The real selling point was to be able to have those statistics and be able to test and show that the replication is occurring properly and then to be able to do live passive testing." - Tim K., Senior Director of IT Security & Infrastructure, Logistics Company
"Zerto is also a very easy product to use. Although I've used it before in other environments, we introduced it to some engineers on our team and, after a couple of hours of training to go through the product, it's fairly intuitive. It's not something that takes a five-day training course to understand." - Paul Mickenbecker, Senior Analyst, IS Infrastructure, Energy/Utilities company
"The most valuable feature is the failover testing and being able to do that in a granular fashion. We can pick and choose what we want to fail over and at what time, then how quickly it fails over. We fail them over into a bubble, which means our developers and other testers can go in and do whatever they want. They are not impacting production outside of the bubble." - reviewer1909311, Sr Systems Engineer, Insurance Company
Rubrik
Rubrik is backup and recovery software that simplifies data protection across hybrid cloud environments. It offers instant data recovery, automated backup orchestration, and global search capabilities, streamlining data management tasks. Rubrik's ability to integrate with various cloud platforms provides flexibility and scalability for data protection strategies. A unique aspect of Rubrik is its focus on policy-driven management, enabling IT teams to automate data protection workflows and reduce manual intervention significantly. Additionally, it offers a ransomware recovery feature, helping organizations quickly recover from cyberattacks and data breaches.
"The feature that I found most valuable is Live Mount. You can either mount a virtual machine from a snapshot, or you can mount a volume from the snapshot. You can mount one disk to the server to retrieve data, or you can mount the whole VM, rename it, and use it as a test VM." - Sheldon Mollineau, Senior system Engineer, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
"Rubrik is a very nice, very good solution because it is able to protect your data and you have the possibility from the backup to detect any abnormal behavior, like a ransomware attack. You are able to detect and restore very easily with this solution. This is a major differentiator in comparison to the other competitors." - reviewer1202862, Technical Sales Engineer Individual Contributor, Tech Services Company
"The SLA-based policy automation is very effective in cloud archiving, as we have archives in the cloud. Regarding the solution's archival functionality, there is a Hot and Cold Tier concept, a handy feature we can implement within Rubrik. We used the solution's Polaris, SaaS-based framework for extracting metadata, and the compliance and governance are excellent, especially during audits." - reviewer2010699, Lead Storage and Backup Engineer, Computer Software Company
How Award Winners Are Determined
PeerSpot Tech Leaders Awards recognize the top products in a category based on real users' in-depth reviews, which are verified for authenticity. The ranking criteria include the number of reviews, views, and comparisons of each product, as well as the overall reviewer rating and the word count per review. The winning products are acknowledged as top performers within their category.
Summary
The Tech Leaders award is PeerSpot's most prestigious. Recipients have earned the esteem of industry professionals who use and review the products and compare them with their competition. Backup and Recovery Software solutions safeguard data, ensuring business continuity and minimizing of downtime, and the award winners, Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, and Rubrik have merited peer recognition as Tech Leaders in this category.
