Data Protection Solutions Directory

Acronis offers backup, disaster recovery, and secure file sync and share solutions. The company also provides data protection in any environment, including virtual, physical, cloud, and mobile. Acronis True Image 2020 is personal backup software that enables users to duplicate their system, effectively capturing all of their data for system recovery or disk migration. Acronis Cyber Backup is aimed towards businesses of all sizes and offers proactive ransomware protection. Recently, Acronis acquired 5nine Software, CyberLynx, and DeviceLock. The vendor also released Acronis Cyber Protect, which natively integrates cybersecurity, data protection, and data management to protect endpoints, systems, and data.

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Acronis serves small and medium-sized businesses with less than 25 servers. However, it has at least one client with more than 200 servers under management.  Acronis Cyber Protect’s ransomware capabilities and ability to verify backup copies’ authenticity and recoverability act as a solid complement to the provider’s backup functionality. Additionally, large enterprises in manufacturing and retail can use the platform in an edge-to-cloud architecture without a local appliance in each location. Recently, Acronis acquired 5nine Software, CyberLynx, and DeviceLock.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a range of IT infrastructure services to enterprises. In addition to storage, the provider’s solutions and products include cloud computing, compute, networking, content delivery, databases, analytics, application services, backup, compliance, data resiliency, data lifecycle management, hybrid cloud backup, and archive.  AWS provides various cloud storage solutions, such as Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and AWS Backup, among others. AWS also offers data-transfer methods and networking options to build solutions that protect data with durability and security.

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Amazon Web Services’ Amazon S3 leads the market regarding revenue and the amount of data under management. This dominance gives AWS control over both the ecosystem of developers who use the S3 API and the storage vendors that implement the S3 API in their storage platforms delivered on-prem. Though AWS has been hesitant to emulate some of its competitors by natively offering products from other vendors such as Dell EMC and NetApp, the provider can deliver end-to-end solutions from edge and on-prem enterprise data centers to public cloud storage services without sacrificing security.

Arcserve offers several different backup products, including Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP), Arcserve Replication and High Availability, Arcserve UDP Cloud Direct, UDP Cloud Hybrid, and a legacy offering. UDP provides comprehensive Assured Recovery for virtual and physical environments with a unified architecture, backup, continuous availability, migration, email archiving, and an easy-to-use console. The product enables organizations to easily scale their IT environments while delivering against recovery point and recovery time objectives, on-prem, or in the cloud. It also allows for the automated disaster recovery testing of business-critical systems, applications, and data, without business downtime or impact on production systems.

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Arcserve Unified Data Protection is most prevalent in Europe and Asia and appeals to mid-market companies. The solution provides continuous data protection, comprehensive backup, high availability, and disaster recovery for virtual, physical, and cloud environments. Additionally, Arcserve UDP delivers comprehensive support for Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Azure Stack backup and recovery use cases. The vendor offers a range of packaging, deployment, and pricing options, allowing customers to choose exclusively the functions they need. In early 2021, Arcserve entered an agreement to merge with StorageCraft.

Asigra is built for cloud computing environments and designed to offer backup efficiencies by allowing enterprises to capture, ingest, and store less data. Designed for compatibility with public, private, and hybrid cloud architectures, the Asigra Cloud Backup solution is equipped with agentless software architecture, global deduplication, and data compression technology along with NIST FIPS 140-2 certified security. Asigra also offers ransomware protection, business continuity, and compliance management. These platforms provide bi-directional malware detection, deep MFA, immutable retention, and variable repository naming. In addition, the vendor reduces recovery time objectives and eliminates silos of backup data.

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Asigra Cloud Backup is an enterprise-class backup and recovery solution that provides a single data protection interface for physical servers, virtual machines, endpoint devices, and cloud apps. The company was recently named the Hot IT Company of the Year in the 2019 IT World Awards. Asigra also has a strategic relationship with the storage solution provider, iXsystems. Though some Gartner Peer Insights users believe the interface needs a makeover, they also stated that the provider’s pricing is lower than competitor’s.

Carbonite offers enterprise cloud-based backup, recovery, and storage solutions. The Carbonite Data Protection Platform, Carbonite Safe, allows organizations to deploy the right form of protection for each type of data in their systems—from long-term backup to rapid recovery, data migration, and endpoint protection. The vendor’s Cloud Disaster Recovery centralizes data backup and recovery on all computers distributed throughout an organization’s locations. Carbonite also offers cloud data protection, which protects against accidental deletion, theft, hardware failure, and data corruption. Users are enabled to retain business data in order to meet compliance requirements. Agents automatically back up the data over the internet to a highly secure data center.

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Carbonite’s Data Protection Platform offers local and cloud backup for physical, virtual, and legacy servers. The solution provides high availability for tier-one systems, workload migration to lessen the impact of planned and unplanned downtime, and endpoint protection for highly mobile workforces. The installation and implementation of the solution are simple, according to Gartner Peer Insights user reviewers. Carbonite’s certified experts provide award-winning customer service, and its product is available in monthly and annual installments. Additionally, in May 2020, OpenText completed its acquisition of Carbonite for $1.42 billion.

Clumio provides Software as a Service enterprise backup. Through this secure service, enterprises can eliminate hardware and software for on-prem backup and avoid the complexity and cost of running third-party data protection software in the cloud. The vendor’s data protection solution, RansomProtect (released in late 2020), provides an air-gapped and immutable backup platform that protects data regardless of what cloud in which it resides. The solution also provides immutable storage, end-to-end encryption, multi-factor authentication and meets ISO 27001, PCI, AICPA SOC, and HIPAA certification and compliance designations.

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Clumio’s RansomProtect is a good fit for organizations with a highly virtualized infrastructure. The solution was built in the cloud, for the cloud, but it also handles on-prem environments well. However, it’s recommended that businesses working with multiple physical servers or database servers implement a slower rollout of Clumio. The provider was also named a “2020 Storage Product of the Year, Judges Choice: Best Startup” by TechTarget’s Storage Magazine and SearchStorage. Recently, Clumio’s Backup as a Service tool achieved the ISO 277701:2019 Privacy Information Management System (PIMS) certification.

Cobalt Iron’s flagship SaaS-based backup solution, Compass, reduces complexity and the amount of time spent on backup. Additionally, the software improves overall data protection performance. The enterprise data protection platform offers four main product components: Commander, Analytics Engine, Accelerators, and Accelerator Operating System. With this solution, users can access a range of analytics, driven data management capabilities through a unified web user experience. Additionally, the solution offers ransomware detection, alerting and notification, remediation capabilities, and is available in AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, and Alibaba.

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Cobalt Iron serves medium to large enterprises with multiple petabytes of data. Cobalt Iron’s Compass platform is recommended for enterprises looking to cut CapEx and OpEx expenses, move off of legacy solutions, incorporate cloud workloads, or reduce backup times while increasing backup success rates. Compass was recently named one of DCIG’s Top Five Anti-Ransomware Enterprise Backup Solutions, as well as one of CRN’s Top 20 Coolest Data Protection Companies. In early 2021, the provider was also granted a patent titled “Data Protection Automatic Optimization System and Method.”

Code42 offers backup, disaster recovery, and data loss protection solutions. The provider’s data loss protection solution (Next-Gen DLP) detects insider threats, satisfies regulatory compliance requirements, automatically monitors file activity across computers and the cloud, and facilitates incident response. Additionally, Code42’s security, IT, and compliance professionals can protect endpoint and cloud data from loss, leak, and theft while maintaining a collaborative culture for employees. This solution is recommended for backing up user data in the cloud or on-prem for compliance and simple recovery. Code42 also offers Incydr, a solution that provides data risk detection and response for insider threats, and CrashPlanCloud, which offers endpoint data backup and recovery for enterprises.

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Code42 offers an intuitive data protection solution that does not require training for end-users. This solution is recommended for backing up user data in the cloud or on-prem for compliance and simple recovery. The provider is praised for its platform’s easy implementation process and the capability to run the tool automatically in the background of business operations. The data protection platform detects bugs and notifies the user, and incremental backups are smooth and do not require any user interaction. In early 2021, Code42 achieved FedRAMP authorization.

Cohesity is a data management company that manages, protects, and extracts value from enterprise data. The provider’s flagship tool, Cohesity DataProtect, safeguards a wide range of data sources on a single web-scale platform. The solution can be deployed on-premises on qualified platforms in the data center, public cloud, and on the edge. Additionally, the platform utilizes a scale-out architecture that starts with a minimum of three nodes and scales without disruption by adding nodes to the cluster. Through this solution, users have the ability to use backup data directly on the platform without needing to restore it, which allows for the consolidation of other use cases, including dev/test and analytics.  Recently, Cohesity raised $250 million in Series E funding.

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Cohesity was named a market leader by Forrester Research in “The Forrester Wave” Data Resiliency Solutions for Q3 2019. The vendor also exports the backup data in native formats to allow for additional use cases, such as test and development, disaster recovery, and analytics. Cohesity also offers an integrated appliance that scales both backup performance and storage capacity linearly, along with cloud tiering, replication, and recovery capabilities. Cohesity consolidates multiple point solutions on a single software-defined data management platform for webscale that allows IT organizations to meet their business SLAs.

Commvault provides data protection and information management software to help organizations protect, access, and use all of their data economically. The vendor has a long list of supported public cloud providers, hypervisors, big data support, and database protection. Commvault Complete Data Protection is an all-in-one solution combining Commvault Backup & Recovery with Commvault Disaster Recovery for enterprise-level data protection software. The solution provides backup, replication, disaster recovery orchestration, copy data management, scale-out architecture, ransomware protection, migration support for data and application, and a web-based user interface.

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Commvault is recommended to enterprise customers who need robust data protection management, hardware snapshot management, and cloud integration capabilities. Commvault Data Protection supports the public cloud providers, databases, and storage arrays. Additionally, IntelliSnap offers support for integrating with and exploiting storage hardware platform snapshots. The company has also introduced administrator-persona-oriented and simplified user interfaces to improve ease of use.  In late 2020, Commvault launched its Metallic cloud Backup as a Service offering in Europe.

Dell EMC’s backup and recovery solution is a prepackaged backup suite made up of several different components available for individual sale. These include Avamar, Networker, Data Protection Advisor, and the new PowerProtect DP series appliances with options for cloud backup and archiving. Dell EMC‘s solutions give a full range of data protection, from archive to continuous availability for physical, virtual, and cloud environments. The provider enables digital transformation through hybrid cloud and big-data solutions built on a modern data infrastructure, bringing together converged infrastructures, storage, and servers.

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Dell EMC’s solutions are a good fit for large on-prem environments that include physical systems and virtual machines. Though the data protection portfolio often results in lock-in with Data Domain and other proprietary hardware, it’s important to note that the vendor offers low-cost cloud object storage for backup-based disaster recovery. Dell also provides aggressive discounts, often with high attach rates of its backup solution to its primary storage sales. The provider’s Integrated Data Protection Appliances partially address long-standing complications of managing DP Suite plus Data Domain components.

Druva delivers data protection and management for the cloud era. Druva Cloud Platform is built on AWS and offered as-a-Service. Druva Phoenix simplifies data protection, improves visibility, and significantly reduces the risk, cost, and effort of managing complex data. The solution operates seamlessly and can be managed from one location, giving IT administrators complete visibility and control over server backups and data composition. Phoenix also offers long-term retention and archiving, enterprise-level RTO and RPO, and enterprise-grade security. Druva is used worldwide by over 4,000 companies at the forefront of embracing the cloud.

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Druva Phoenix makes it easier and more cost-effective for users to protect all of their data across complex infrastructures with cloud backup, disaster recovery, and archival. The provider’s solution is recommended for small to mid-sized companies and offers a pay-as-you-go pricing model. Reviews from Gartner Peer Insights show that users find Druva Phoenix easy to use, implement, and install on data center applications while also being consistent during operations. Druva also provides 24/7 customer support, as well as a library of training materials. Additionally, Druva recently acquired SFApex for an undisclosed amount.

HYCU specializes in multi-cloud data backup, management, migration, protection, and recovery for on-premises and hyper-converged (HCI), Google Cloud, Azure Cloud, and multi-cloud infrastructures. HYCU harnesses 25 years of sophisticated IT experience, insights from over one million users, and works with more than 25,000 customers worldwide. The result is alignment with industry leaders and a competitive advantage in the multi-cloud space. HYCU’s flagship products, a purpose-built Data Protection solution for Nutanix, a managed Data Protection as a Service for Google Cloud Platform and Azure Cloud, and HYCU Protégé, a Multi-Cloud Data Protection Solution offer one-click cross-cloud migration, disaster recovery, and consolidated management.

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HYCU provides purpose-built data protection solutions for virtualized (VMware and Nutanix) and cloud infrastructures (Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure). HYCU solutions are typically deployed as virtualized, physical, or hyperconverged infrastructure, or as SaaS directly from Google Cloud or Azure Marketplace. This allows users of all size companies to operate in a friendly and familiar environment that looks like an extension of their virtualization or cloud platform of choice. HYCU also offers a SaaS-based management platform, HYCU Protégé, that delivers cross-platform data analytics, management, migration, and disaster recovery services.

Infrascale provides comprehensive, cloud-based data protection for MSPs and VARs serving SMB and mid-market customers by delivering backup and disaster recovery solutions. The products are delivered as physical or virtual appliances and include disaster recovery, cloud backup, and cloud application backup software.  The Infrascale portfolio of products provides flexible data protection of SaaS applications, endpoint devices, and servers for SMB and mid-market customers. Infrascale also enables quick setup and use all of the data protection solutions in one unified console. The solutions are implemented with patented technology, encrypted data and data transport, keeping data secure.

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Infrascale is a good fit for organizations with a hybrid infrastructure that does not include a mainframe or needs outside of backup for Unix or IBM system servers. The vendors offers a storage-based monthly pricing fee that includes unlimited testing as well. Though Infrascale can have a bit of a learning curve during initial implementation, its support staff is responsive and well-equipped to provide deployment assistance. In early 2021, Infrascale received a Gold Stevie Award for Customer Service Team of the year.

Nightfall AI utilizes machine learning to identify business-critical data across SaaS, APIs, and data infrastructure so it can be protected and managed. The vendor offers data protection software for Slack, Google Drive, GitHub, Confluence, Jira, and Amazon Web Services. Additionally, Nightfall AI’s data protection solution, Nightfall DLP, enables users to achieve HIPAA compliance, stop data exfiltration, protect credentials and critical data, prevent insider threats, secure customer and employee data, and implement content moderation policies. Nightfall AI’s team also has experience building cloud services and APIs at a number of companies, including Uber, Atlassian, and MuleSoft.

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Nightfall AI is a good fit for businesses from SMBs to enterprises looking to simplify data security in the cloud. Nightfall DLP is one of the industry’s first cloud-native data loss prevention solutions, which can be integrated with any application via REST API to ensure they are secure by design. The provider is praised for its ease of use and setup, but particularly for its user support. In late 2019, the provider raised $20.3 million in Series A funding. Additionally, at the tail end of 2020, Nightfall AI joined CircleCI’s partner network.

StorageCraft offers backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions for servers, desktops, and laptops. The vendor’s data protection solutions, ShadowXafe, OneXafe Solo, ShadowProtect, Granular Recovery for Exchange, ShadowProtect IT Edition, and File Backup and Recovery, reduce downtime, improve security and stability for systems and data, and lower the total cost of ownership. StorageCraft‘s business focuses on data protection and restoration tools that are offered via value-added and channel partners. However, it also provides scale-out storage, replication, recovery, integrated data protection, and more. The solution is supported by on-prem and cloud-based environments, as well as hybrid deployments.

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StorageCraft typically serves small to medium-sized businesses. The vendor also provides support in various languages, including German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Buyers should keep in mind that though StorageCraft will accept calls from end-users, partners are responsible for testing and disaster recovery events. According to reviews from Gartner Peer Insights, StorageCraft’s software is simple to install and configure. The tool can be installed on multiple computers and begin backing up to any location. Though users state that the interface could be more intuitive, they praise the continuous incremental backup option.

VAST Data offers Universal Storage which enables organizations to deploy an all-flash system as a backup storage target. VAST combines solid state drives (SSD) and highly efficient data algorithms to eliminate the economic arguments for disk-based purpose-built backup appliances (PBBA). As a result, VAST customers gain fast backups and restores that enable immediate recovery of critical applications at scale following any cyber attack, natural disaster, or data loss event. Since its launch in February 2019, VAST has become the fastest-selling infrastructure startup in history.

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VAST Data’s Universal Storage makes it possible for organizations to adopt an all-flash system for their data backup and recovery requirements. With support for many popular backup applications, VAST makes it simple for organizations to modernize data center infrastructure and fortify their data protection solution. By enabling hastened recoveries, VAST lays the foundation for a modern data protection and business continuity plan at a potentially lower cost than legacy systems.