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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IBM Storage Protect Plus

IBM Storage Protect Plus (formerly IBM Spectrum Protect Plus) provides data recovery for virtual environments and databases.

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IBM Cloud Backup

IBM Cloud Backup is a full-featured, automated, agent-based backup and recovery system managed through the Cloud Backup WebCC browser utility.

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StarWind Virtual Tape Library

StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL) resolves the issue of Enterprise ROBO being stuck with expensive tapes for data backup, while allowing users to stick to regulatory archival requirements. One can’t be sure that data stored on the tapes in archives will always be retrievable. StarWind…

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Huawei Cloud Backup and Recovery (CBR)

Cloud Backup and Recovery (CBR) on Huawei Cloud lets users back up cloud servers, disks, and on-premises VMware virtual environments. If there is a virus intrusion, accidental deletion, or software/hardware fault, data can be restored to a backup point.

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Infrascale Platform

The Infrascale Platform is the flagship cloud storage, data protection, and disaster recovery platform from the California based company, Infrascale.

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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)

System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) is an enterprise backup and recovery system that contributes to BCDR strategy by facilitating the backup and recovery of enterprise data.

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Percona XtraBackup

Percona XtraBackup is a free, open source, online backup solution for all versions of Percona Server for MySQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. Percona XtraBackup performs online non-blocking, tightly compressed, secure backups of InnoDB, XtraDB, and HailDB storage engines on transactional systems,…

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Iron Cloud Data Protection

Iron Cloud Data Protection, powered by Carbonite backup solutions, aims to help businesses deploy the right form of protection for each type of data across an organization's information ecosystem, enabling users to meet a wide range of recovery objectives.

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IDERA SQL Safe Backup

SQL Safe Backup from Houston based software company Idera is a data recovery and protection option.

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N2WS Backup & Recovery

N2WS Backup & Recovery is a lightweight tool built to integrate into any enterprise AWS environment.

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TrilioVault

Trilio is a provider of cloud-native data protection for Kubernetes, OpenStack and Red Hat Virtualization environments headquartered in Framingham. The company's TrilioVault technology is used by cloud infrastructure operators and developers for backup and recovery, migration and…

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LiveVault

LiveVault is a data backup and recovery option acquired by J2 Global from Iron Mountain.

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vSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)

VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced (or vDPA), now part of vSphere, was a VMware data protection and recovery offering. The product is no longer available standalone.

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Actifio Enterprise

Actifio Enterprise is a copy data virtualization, & data center backup and recovery platform from Boston-based Actifio.

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Iperius Backup

Iperius Backup is a backup software designed for IT resellers and IT consultants. It is presented as versatile backup software that also provides enterprise-level functionality. Its professional features like VM Backup, database backup, tape backup, drive imaging and much more don'…

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Netvault Backup

Netvault Backup is backup and recovery software from Dell, based on technology obtained via that company's acquisition of BakBone Software in 2011.

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HYCU

HYCU offers a purpose-built backup and recovery for Nutanix available as a software solution or via a dedicated appliance.

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rediBackup
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rediBackup is a cloud-based backup service to help ensure that businesses can return to normal quickly if necessary, from rediCloud, a division of New York based ATSG.

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Igneous
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Igneous calls itself a UDM as-a-Service solution that enables data-centric organizations with visibility, protection anddata mobility at scale, wherever datasets and workflows live. The main value proposition is that Igneous customers can see, organize and understand all of their…

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Pure Storage FlashRecover

FlashRecover is an all-flash data backup solution that combines Cohesity DatProtect and Pure Storage FlashBlade software and storage. With FlashRecover, Pure Storage aims to help increase performance and speed to recovery.

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INAP Cloud Backup

INAP Cloud Backup is an offsite cloud data center backup solution. It is designed to provide the highest level of data protection and redundancy for sensitive data. INAP Cloud Backup is powered by Veeam Cloud Connect. The vendor's goal is to provide a simple, affordable and secure…

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Cobalt Iron Compass

Cobalt Iron delivers an enterprise-class cloud backup SaaS offering. Cobalt Iron's platform, Compass®, scales from terabytes to exabytes and is: Delivered as a service and controlled via a web interfaceA single, flexible deployment model scaling the range of private to hybrid to…

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Xopero ONE
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Xopero Cloud is a comprehensive solution which secures 21 platforms: Windows PC, iOS, Windows Server & Windows Server Essentials, Linux Server, Windows System State, VMware, Hyper-V, Exchange, Outlook, SQL, mySQL, postgreSQL, Firebird and others.

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PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance (DM Series)

The PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance provides a unified user experience and automates discovery and protection of databases, VMs, file systems and Kubernetes containers. Users can orchestrate protection directly through its interface and secure data with the latest capabilities…

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NovaStor DataCenter

NovaStor DataCenter offers network backup and recovery software for securing physical and virtual machines across distributed locations with media management for disk, tape backup and cloud, plus data migration, all on the same interface with centralized management. NovaStor DataCenter…

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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.