Data Center Backup Solutions

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Bacula Enterprise

Bacula Enterprise is a data center backup, restore, and recovery solution from Swiss, Dracula-themed software company Bacula Systems.

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Veeam Data Platform

Veeam’s® premier product, Veeam Backup & Replication™, delivers availability for all cloud, virtual, Kubernetes and physical workloads. Through a management console, the software provides backup, archival, recovery and replication capabilities.

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Rubrik

Rubrik is cloud data management and enterprise backup software provided by Palo Alto-based Rubrik, Inc. It is a software platform that provides backup, instant recovery, archival, search, analytics, compliance, and copy data management in one secure fabric across data centers and…

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Veeam Data Platform

Veeam’s® premier product, Veeam Backup & Replication™, delivers availability for all cloud, virtual, Kubernetes and physical workloads. Through a management console, the software provides backup, archival, recovery and replication capabilities.

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Unitrends

The Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliances are hardware developed for data backup and management. They cover enterprise backup, ransomware detection, recovery assurance, proactive monitoring, and cloud continuity into a single platform for organizations of all sizes.

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Rubrik

Rubrik is cloud data management and enterprise backup software provided by Palo Alto-based Rubrik, Inc. It is a software platform that provides backup, instant recovery, archival, search, analytics, compliance, and copy data management in one secure fabric across data centers and…

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Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI

Commvault® Cloud is a cyber resilience platform built to meet the demands of hybrid enterprises. It delivers data security and recovery in the cloud, powered by advanced AI, to help organizations see, manage, and recover data wherever it lives.

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Cohesity

Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Cohesity protects the world’s most critical data workloads across on-prem, cloud-native, and SaaS with backup and recovery, threat intelligence, cyber vaulting, files and objects, and recovery orchestration.

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BDRSuite

Vembu BDR Suite is a universal backup solution catering to the backup, recovery, and disaster recovery needs of diverse IT environments. It is also optimized for service providers who deliver BaaS and DRaaS to their customers.

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Acronis Cyber Protect

Acronis Cyber Protect helps you safeguard your data from various threats while natively integrating your data protection and cybersecurity.

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Bacula Enterprise

Bacula Enterprise is a data center backup, restore, and recovery solution from Swiss, Dracula-themed software company Bacula Systems.

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Carbonite Server

Carbonite Server (also replacing the former EVault products acquired from Seagate in 2016) is a full backup and discovery solution. Designed to recover anything from a single file to an entire system with the click of a button, Carbonite Server users can protect virtually any type…

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Barracuda Backup

Barracuda Backup is a data recovery, restoration, and deduplication product from Barracuda Networks. It features data center backup support for email protection, network & application security, and general data protection.

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Druva Phoenix (UNPUBLISHED)

As businesses adopt a cloud-first strategy, reducing on-premises infrastructure and moving IT and business applications to the cloud, the limitations and costs of traditional data protection and disaster recovery become more apparent. Druva Phoenix™ provides a cloud-native approach…

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Veritas Backup Exec

Veritas Backup Exec is a backup and disaster recovery solution. It works in virtual, physical, and multi-cloud environments and integrates with several third-party software releases and applications.

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Asigra

Asigra is an enterprise-level, agentless, cloud-based recovery software to provide data backup and recovery of servers, virtual machines, endpoint devices, database, and SaaS/IaaS-based applications. Asigra charges customers by the amount of data they recover rather than the amount…

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Dell Avamar

Dell Avamar is a hardware and software data backup and deduplication product. It provides protection and recovery through a complete software and hardware solution when paired with Dell Data Domain for virtual environments, remote offices, enterprise apps, NAS servers, and desktops/…

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Microsoft System Center

Microsoft System Center Suite is a family of IT management software for network monitoring, updating and patching, endpoint protection with anti-malware, data protection and backup, ITIL- structured IT service management, remote administration and more. It is available in two editions:…

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Veritas NetBackup

Veritas NetBackup is a backup-as-a-service product providing data recovery and protection for enterprises. It supports physical, virtual, and cloud systems and features an automated disaster recovery capabilities.

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Cove Data Protection

Cove Data Protection (formerly N-Able Backup) is designed to cover servers, datacenters, applications, and workstations, and is provided to ensure business continuity and at-a-glance assessment and fast issue resolution via customizable dashboard.

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MSP360 Managed Backup

CloudBerry Backup is a cross-platform cloud backup and disaster recovery solution. It is integrated with major public cloud services and comes with complete backup and disaster recovery capabilities like data compression and military-grade encryption using customer-controlled keys.…

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Veeam on IBM Cloud

Veeam on IBM Cloud promises to provide continuous availability to enterprise clients through its combined and automated backup and recovery solution. Veeam is deployed in the user's IBM Cloud environment for: · Agentless image-based backups · Recovery of entire VMs,…

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PowerProtect DD Series

PowerProtect DD (a next-generation appliance replacing Dell EMC Data Domain) is a suite of hardware appliances used for data protection, backup, storage and deduplication. PowerProtect appliance offerings are cloud-enabled and vary by organization size, capable of supporting small…

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Dell Networker

Dell NetWorker is an enterprise-level data protection software product that unifies and automates backup to tape, disk-based, and flash-based storage media across physical and virtual environments for granular and disaster recovery.

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IBM Storage Protect

IBM Storage Protect (formerly IBM Spectrum Protect, or Tivoli Storage Manager) provides data resilience for physical file servers, virtual environments, and applications. Organizations can scale up to manage billions of objects per backup server.

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OpenText Data Protector

OpenText Data Protector standardizes and consolidates backups across multiple platforms. It provides secure, comprehensive backup protection for business-critical data and applications whether virtual, physical, or online in the cloud.

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Quest Rapid Recovery

Quest Rapid Recovery is a data backup and restore offering from Dell. It provides virtual standby, encryption, replication, deduplication, and the ability for users to run without restore.

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HPE StoreOnce

HPE StoreOnce is a backup and recovery hardware solution from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, providing disk-based backup, deduplication, and long-term storage. StoreOnce offerings can support virtual and cloud environments for small business, mid-size organizations, and enterprises.

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What are Data Center Backup Solutions?

Data center backup and recovery software is designed to provide business continuity and prevent critical data loss, even while data centers grow more complex. While backup solutions provide a disaster recovery solution, they may also be used for workload migration. Additionally, some data center backup solutions are designed to meet data archiving and storage needs in compliance-governed industries. Modern software-defined data center backup solutions provide replication and backup of data in a vendor and hardware agnostic fashion.

Small businesses may rely on backup solutions that come with the server operating system, or built-in server backup. However, this approach creates vulnerabilities due to a lack of transparency. It also means the company may have multiple non-integrated data protection solutions. This is not viable for larger enterprises where transparency and policy-based governance rules exist. And for virtualization heavy environments, virtualization-aware data backup solutions are key.

The modern data center needs data backup solutions that cover:

  • Physical and virtual servers
  • Databases
  • Enterprise applications (i.e., SaaS products)
  • Mobile endpoints
  • Public infrastructure platforms (like AWS)

Most modern data center backup solutions will optionally back data up to the cloud. However, many backup solutions provide target storage options. This includes on-premises options like a NAS appliance or tape drive for long-term storage. Many data center backup solutions are "agentless"—meaning they have no process running in the background on every machine. Yet still, data is backed up automatically according to administrator-defined rules and schedule.

Data Center Backup Features & Capabilities

Data center backup and recovery solutions provide the following feature sets:

  • Combine backup & replication, recovery, and storage in a single service
  • Machine / platform agnostic backup restorations
  • Centralized web-based management console
  • Deduplication, changed block only backup, low bandwidth consumption
  • File archival, long-term storage optimized backup
  • Near continuous data protection (e.g., high interval) & restore availability
  • Support for remote offices, remote employees (e.g., laptops, VDI)
  • Test and validation of recovery plans, recovery assurance
  • Verification of backups, ransomware / virus detection
  • Encryption and deduplication of transmitted data
  • Protection & restore of running applications, open files, etc.
  • Cloud-to-cloud backup for SaaS services (e.g., Exchange, Microsoft Office 365)
  • Image-level virtual machine (VM) backup
  • Multiple data restore locations (e.g., tape appliance, cloud)
  • Copy data management with search & analytics
  • Optional unlimited cloud storage for backups, managed cloud-based storage
  • Integrated deduplication and file compression
  • Regular snapshots to ensure Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is met
  • Replacement appliances in case of total disaster

Data Center Backup Comparison

When evaluating data center backup software, carefully take into account the following considerations:

1. Do you need converged secondary storage? Converged secondary storage is a combination of many data protection technologies including backup, recovery, archiving, replication, deduplication, compression and encryption. The idea of a turnkey packaged solution is very attractive to some who have little interest in selecting a server and the associated software components, and just want something that is scalable and secure and optimized out of the gate. On the other hand, some customers are likely to have appropriate infrastructure in the data center and would prefer a software-only solution that they can install themselves. One of the big advantages of this converged storage approach is that it allows buyers to think beyond backup, and to think in terms of a broader data protection management strategy.

2. What about copy data management? Copy data management is a solution to the problem of proliferating copies of data across the enterprise. The amount of data collected and processed by enterprises has grown exponentially over the last few years, and if multiple copies of the same data are being stored, this can use up available storage space and degrade performance. The key insight behind the development of copy data management is that there should be a centralized, policy-driven way to manage the creation and use of copies in an automated and efficient manner. Copy data management capabilities have now become pervasive in backup offerings, and most enterprise vendors include some form of copy data management as standard with their products.

3. Is cloud backup for you? Cloud storage is not yet the de facto storage option for most organizations despite advantages like elasticity which allows for capacity growth with unlimited storage. However, a large majority of organizations have a hybrid strategy allowing them to utilize both on-premises and cloud backup strategies, sometimes dictated by the kind of data being backed up. For example, mission critical data might be backed up to disk in the data center, while data that is less likely to be needed in the short term is stored in the cloud as a form or archiving.

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Pricing Information

Costs of data backup solutions vary widely but directly correlate with the quantity of data backed up as the foremost cost determinant. However, infrastructural complexity (primarily virtualization) also provides a source of cost increase. Many vendors of data center backup software do provide very limited “community” editions of their backup solutions at no cost. These free backup solutions are available perpetually and provide basic file protection and sometimes finite cloud storage for backup data. Paid plans are generally available on a per server or per socket basis. For various degrees of feature breadth cost will generally range from $450 to $1200 per server.

While all products feature basic data center backup, advanced backup solutions include workload automation, role-based access, self-service recovery, and other features. Alternatively, protection plans can be purchased per workstation. This may present a viable, low cost (e.g., approximately $100 per workstation per year) backup solution for small businesses. Also, leading providers of data center backup and disaster recovery solutions may provide wholly managed recovery services, or data backup hardware and appliances as well.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is backup and recovery?

Backup is a simple but fundamental operation that creates a copy of the data, as an insurance policy against the occurrence some kind of disaster. Data backup is important not only for protecting an organization’s crucial data, but also for helping maintain SLAs and ensure business continuity. Backups can be used to recover data after data loss due to deletion or corruption, or to recover data from a previous point in time.

Recovery, which is interchangeably used with disaster recovery, is a comprehensive strategy designed to allow an organization to maintain or quickly resume mission-critical operations following a natural disaster or other unplanned data loss events. While backup is the process of storing a copy of data, recovery is the process of obtaining that data when something goes wrong.

A combination of backup and replication is often the best strategy for disaster recovery. In this scenario, both production data and local backup data are replicated to a remote site in real time. In its most simple iteration, what makes data recovery possible is hosting a file and the information about that file in different locations. In this way, the backup data with long retention periods are made available for restores and is highly available because it’s replicated to the disaster recovery site.


What is converged secondary storage?

Converged secondary storage is a combination of many data protection technologies including backup, recovery, archival, replication, deduplication, compression, and encryption. The purpose of converged secondary storage is to consolidate data protection processes. Typical use cases are combining data backup with archival, or with recovery.

These systems are similar to hyper-converged platforms and are often sold as hardware/software combinations that integrate computing, storage, or virtualization on a single box. The idea of a turnkey packaged solution is attractive to those with little interest in selecting a server and the associated software components, and just want something scalable, secure, and optimized out of the gate.

What is copy data management?

Copy data management is a solution to proliferating copies of data across the enterprise. This is a common problem. The amount of data collected and processed by enterprises has grown exponentially over the last few years. If multiple copies of the same data are stored, this uses up available space and degrades performance. By some estimates, over half of the data store by an enterprise is copy data.

What is cloud storage? What is hybrid storage?

Cloud storage is not yet the de fact storage option for most organizations. This is despite advantages like elasticity which allows for capacity growth with unlimited storage. Due to rapidly declining costs, backup storage in the cloud is growing quickly.

However, a majority of organizations have a hybrid strategy. This allows both on-premise and cloud backup strategies, typically dictated by the kind of data being backed up. For example, mission-critical data might be backed up to disk in the data center, while data less likely to be needed in the short term is stored in the cloud as a form of archiving.