Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery - 2021

Gartner’s view of the enterprise backup and recovery software solution market is focused on transformational technologies or approaches delivering on the future needs of end users. It is not focused on the market as it is today. 

Gartner defines the market as follows: Backup and recovery software solutions are designed to capture a point-in-time copy (backup) of an enterprise workload and write the data out to a secondary storage device for the purpose of recovering this data in case of loss.

Gartner's evaluation of vendors specializing in Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions:

Leaders:

• Commvault - Portfolio mainly consists of Commvault Complete Data Protection, Commvault HyperScale X (HS2300 and HS4300 ) and Commvault Metallic
• Rubric - Portfolio mainly consists of Rubrik Cloud Data Management (RCDM), Polaris
• Cohesity - Portfolio includes DataProtect, which is a service that runs on Cohesity Helios, a SaaS-based data management platform
• Veeam - Portfolio includes Availability Suite (VAS), which is composed of Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE for backup monitoring and analytics
• Veritas Technologies - NetBackup, NetBackup Appliances and Backup Exec; NetBackup Flex Scale, an integrated scale-out appliance
• Dell Technologies - Backup/recovery portfolio mainly comprises Dell EMC Data Protection Suite, composed of Avamar, NetWorker and PowerProtect Data Manager; Appliance portfolio - PowerProtect DP series (integrated appliances) and PowerProtect DD Series (target-based appliances)

Challengers:

• IBM
• Arcserve

Niche Players:

• Zerto
• Unitrends
• Micro Focus

Visionaries:

• Druva
• Acronis