Top 10: Disaster Recovery Solution Providers
Data centre resiliency has never been more critical, particularly as the cyber threat landscape continues to become more sophisticated.
Given that data centres store, manage and process large quantities of data, they are susceptible to a constant threat of cyberattacks. Now, companies are seeking services that can help to lessen digital vulnerabilities.
A data centre cyberattack has the potential to be catastrophic and could have devastating implications for operators, businesses and customers. An issue that we have explored previously is threat actors having the ability to gain access to sensitive data and going on to exploit it for their own gain – putting businesses and operations at risk.
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As operators seek to protect their assets, Data Centre Magazine looks at some of the leading disaster recovery solution providers.
10. Rubrik
CEO: Bipul Sinha
Headquarters: Palo Alto, California, US
Revenue: US$828.7m (Subscription, 2024)
Rubrik Security Cloud is a comprehensive data security platform that delivers complete cyber resilience with both cyber posture and cyber recovery. Operating out of California, the company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) after going public in April 2024.
The company’s Security Cloud platform integrates data protection with threat analytics and security posture management to provide complete cyber resilience across a company’s cloud and SaaS.
Just recently, the company partnered with Rackspace to provide a fully managed isolated recovery service aimed at enhancing enterprise cyber resilience, harnessing Rackspace’s expertise in data centres.
9. Commvault
CEO: Sanjay Mirchandani
Headquarters: Tinton Falls, New Jersey, US
Revenue: US$223.3m (2024)
Commvault, under CEO Sanjay Mirchandani, works to simplify data protection, cyber recovery and cyber resilience in one unified cloud platform. Its Commvault Cloud platform is designed to protect, test and rapidly recover data across all of its customer’s workloads.
The platform provides unified backup, replication and disaster recovery solutions and supports a wide range of workloads, including Microsoft 365 and Salesforce.
On Monday it was announced that the company would be partnering with Deloitte to help enhance cyber resilience and incident response.
8. Cohesity (incorporating Veritas Data Protection)
CEO: Sanjay Poonen
Headquarters: San Jose, California, US
Revenue: US$1.5bn (December 2024)
Cohesity became the largest data protection software provider in the world after completing its combination with Veritas’ Enterprise Data Protection Business. The entity, led by Sanjay Poonen out of California, offers two main platforms: Cohesity DataProtect and Veritas NetBackup.
Both provide disaster recovery capabilities across physical, virtual, cloud and SaaS workloads, which incorporate features like AI/ML-based anomaly detection, malware scanning and orchestrated recovery.
The combined company will offer cloud-scale and AI-powered data security and management, Gen AI-driven insights and a comprehensive multicloud data protection portfolio.
7. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
HQ: Spring, Texas, US
CEO: Antonio Neri
Revenue: US$30.127bn (FY24)
Headquartered in Texas, the company has committed to enhancing its disaster recovery portfolio in recent years. Significantly, in 2021, the company acquired Zerto, with this software now utilising continuous data protection and enabling automated disaster recovery orchestration and non-disruptive testing capabilities.
Under HPE GreenLake, the company’s cloud services are accessed through a unified control plane that delivers a consistent, open and extensible cloud operating experience for the customer’s services and users, wherever the workloads and data are located.
6. Broadcom (incorporating VMware)
CEO: Hock Tan
Headquarters: San Jose, California, US
Revenue: US$51.6bn (Fiscal year 2024)
Following its acquisition of VMware, Broadcom now offers VMware Live Recovery. It provides automated recovery plan execution, non-disruptive testing and failover/failback for workloads within VMware Cloud Foundation environments, whether on-premises or in supported public clouds.
VMware’s Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offering moves an organisation’s computer processing to its own cloud infrastructure. In the event of a disaster or ransomware attack, this allows a business to continue operations seamlessly from the vendor’s location, even if the company’s servers are down.
5. IBM
CEO: Arvind Krishna
Headquarters: Armonk, New York, US
Revenue: US$62bn+ (2024)
IBM’s disaster recovery offering centres on its Storage Defender platform, which is designed to simplify and coordinate business recovery processes by providing a unified view of data protection and cyber resilience status across the hybrid cloud.
The tool works by integrating into security dashboards and uses AI-powered sensors to quickly detect anomalies by using unique detection methods developed by IBM Research.
Likewise, IBM X-Force Incident Response Services can help organisations minimise the impact of a data breach by providing rapid response to cybersecurity incidents.
4. Veeam
CEO: Anand Eswaran
Headquarters: Kirkland, Washington, US
Revenue: US$1.5bn (2022-2023)
The Veeam Data Platform includes Veeam Recovery Orchestrator in its Premium edition for automated disaster recovery planning, testing and execution. Support extends to VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments and works by facilitating orchestrated recovery and migration scenarios.
Likewise, the company’s ransomware protection features involve immutable backups, malware detection and verified recovery processes.
“Veeam-powered DRaaS solutions provide the tools and expertise needed to navigate today’s complex data protection landscape,” says Laura Maniscalco, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Veeam. “Whether you’re looking to protect against ransomware, meet compliance standards, or simplify IT operations, Veeam has you covered.”
3. Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
CEO: Thomas Kurian
Headquarters: Mountain View, California, US
Revenue: US$43.22bn (2024)
Google Cloud supports a wide range of data protection options, with its disaster recovery product Google Cloud Backup and DR Service as a managed offering focused on protecting workloads within the GCP environment.
For cloud workloads, Google Cloud sees ensuring business continuity, securing application-aware backups and addressing multiple use cases as essential to successful disaster recovery.
To complement Backup and DR Service, Google Cloud also supports data protection partner solutions and provides service-level data protection features.
2. Microsoft Azure
CEO: Satya Nadella
Headquarters: Redmond, Washington, US
Revenue: US$261.80bn (2024)
The Azure Site Recovery offering from Microsoft Azure is designed to offer ease of deployment, cost effectiveness and dependability. Users can deploy replication, failover and recovery processes through Site Recovery to help keep applications running during planned and unplanned outages.
Azure offers end-to-end backup and disaster recovery solutions that are simple, secure and cost-effective. These can also be integrated with on-premises data protection solutions – particularly when it comes to recovering services, as its solutions are simple, cloud-native and very resilient.
1. Amazon Web Services (AWS)
CEO: Matt Garman
Headquarters: Seattle, Washington, US
Revenue: US$107.56bn (2024)
The primary disaster recovery offering from AWS is its Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) that provides block-level replication from on-premises or other cloud environments into AWS.
DRS is designed to target recovery point objectives of seconds and recovery time objectives of minutes, the company says. Some of its leading features include non-disruptive testing, point-in-time recovery, automated recovery workflows and automated replication of network configurations.
As a result, DRS can minimise downtime and data loss with its fast recovery solutions for both on-premises and cloud-based applications.
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