Top 10 Backup Vendors and Companies in 2023

Backup and recovery system vendors review.

Today, there are quite a lot of different backup and recovery vendors, each with their own list of features and shortcomings. Sometimes choosing a correct vendor for your company might be difficult, even without the fact that each of the existing vendors is constantly changing, adding and removing features from their products. While this helps them to stay relevant and up-to-date, it makes choosing the right vendor even more difficult for businesses.

Backup and recovery vendors can offer an overwhelming amount of different features, including encryption, one-click failovers, mobile data security, remote control capabilities and more. Even so, each of the backup vendors has their own strengths and weaknesses, and most of the time businesses have to do a lot of research to make a competent choice based on their own wants and needs. One  way to go about it is to look for the features your business needs the most at the lowest possible cost.

Rubrik

Rubrik is a backup and recovery vendor that specializes in working with data management and protection within hybrid IT environments. One of the most notable features of Rubrik is RCDM (Rubrik Cloud Data Management) – their own high-class data protection solution that specializes in cloud integration. There’s also Polaris – Rubrik’s data management platform that works under the SaaS model (Software as a Service) and consists of mainly two parts – Polaris GPS and Polaris Radar. Polaris GPS’s main purpose is reporting and policy management, while Polaris Radar is famous for its ransomware detection and rehabilitation functions. It’s also worth noting that Rubrik can be deployed via both physical hardware and with the usage of virtual appliances.

However, nothing is perfect, and the same goes for Rubrik – there are some shortcomings of the service that were reported by current users, like somewhat cost-heavy VM and app protection for smaller companies or not enough granular control when it comes to working with Active Directory.

Cohesity

One specific feature that separates Cohesity from its competitors is its clusterlike design with nodes when it comes to managing enterprise data. The solution’s scaling is managed through adding more nodes to the cluster (the base number is 3 nodes). Cohesity keeps backups in app-native formats and also uses NAS (Network-attached storage) protocols to export all kinds of data. Its primary use case is the backup of both VM and standard enterprise-grade apps’ infrastructures. 

One of the key features of the solution is the speed of data restoration – it is capable of restoring several VMs worth of data in a small amount of time, making for a very fast RTOs. At the same time, if you want granular recovery for MS Exchange or SharePoint – they’re both covered by specific add-ons and are charged over the base product cost.

Dell EMC Data Protection Suite

Dell EMC provides a full-fledged data protection solution to meet the needs of any organization. Data protection suite includes variable data protection levels depending on the current business needs. Comprehensive UI allows for easy visualisation of data protection even across multiple websites or systems, and in-built continuous data protection technology allows for fast recovery times in VM environments, even in the case of a disaster.You can choose the required data protection level yourself depending on current situation.

The software itself is packed with a variety of applications, allowing for a number of data storage types like NAS, tape, hardware snapshots and more. That also includes a separate backup into a cloud storage of your choosing as a means of preventing data loss in case of a disaster.  At the same time, Dell EMC offers a high level of resilience via automatization of data isolation, data analytics and data recovery.

Veritas Backup Exec

One of the Veritas’s key points is their significant portfolio – it’s a relatively old company that has been around for several decades and works within a lot of fields, including backup and recovery services, information governance, multi cloud data management and so on. Veritas’s backup and recovery solution is able to work as a deployable software that is installed on customer’s hardware, as well as an integrated highly capable appliance that specializes in backup storage and backup process control.

Due to its long history, Veritas is favored by a lot of larger companies with some legacy and traditional traits in them. One of their key points is their ability to work on a significantly large scale, supporting over one thousand clients at once within a single environment. However, while Veritas scales well in regards to storage capacity – there’s little to no scaling efficiency in regards to the computing power capacity, which means that the clients would need additional computing appliances to work properly with larger data masses.

Commvault

Commvault applies exclusive technologies in the field of data backup and recovery software to cover various data sources, multiple file types, backup types and storage types. For example, it allows you to backup your VM, database and endpoints with pinpoint accuracy with the best approach for the exact data type and recovery profile of your choosing. Commvault can recover VMs, backup both unstructured as well as structured data and transfer data from cloud to cloud. It offers an unprecedented level of VM management and protection using a variety of its tools.

Commvault supports over twenty different cloud storage providers, including the most popular ones – VMware, Azure, AWS and so on. There is some significant room for improvement though, including UI friendliness, according to clients reviews.