If you’ve been technologically unlucky at any point, you know the crushing despair that accompanies losing data. Whether it’s a single word document or an entire system, there is a specific breed of panic that sets in when you’re facing losing work, photos, or (God forbid) your entire music collection.
But thankfully, backups are evolving and getting easier to boot. And now cloud backup and recovery is making protecting valuable information easier than ever.
Cloud or online backup, as one might gather from the name, backs up data by sending copies of the data over a public or private cloud. The server is usually hosted by a third-party service provider that charges the customer a fee based on bandwidth, capacity, and number of users.
These services can be automated and don’t rely on an on-premises hard drive, which removes a certain amount of human and hardware error from the equation. They also allow quick and easy access to all backed-up files.
For a full list of benefits, drivers and trends in the cloud backup and recovery software market, check out Technavio’s new report on the topic.
While cloud backup and recovery is still a relatively small part of the cloud storage market, increased interest from enterprises and individual consumers alike will give the market a boost over the next four years. The global cloud backup and recovery software market will grow at a CAGR of 12.94% from 2016-2020, to reach an overall value $5.2 billion in 2020.
Top cloud backup and recovery software companies
There are a lot of cloud backup providers out there, ranging from the usual suspects to smaller vendors.
HP, CA Technologies, CommVault, EMC, IBM, and Microsoft all offer cloud backup software. Technavio analysts have picked out 12 other vendors offering top-notch cloud backup and recovery software:
Acronis
Develops on-premises and cloud software for backup, disaster recovery, and secure file sync and share and data access.
Actifio
Actifio specializes in copy data virtualization.
Its products make IT infrastructure more cost-effective and efficient by reducing unnecessary data duplication.
Asigra
Provides cloud backup and recovery software platform known as Asigra Cloud Backup.
Carbonite
Offers a Mac and Windows-compatible online service that backs up documents, email, music, photos, and settings.
Dell Software
Develops, distributes, markets, and supports enterprise systems management software products.
Offers database management products, including Toad for Oracle and cloud databases and Benchmark Factory for databases, to conduct scalability testing, database workload replay, and industry-standard benchmark testing.
Evault
Offers cloud-connected backup and recovery solutions for small businesses, mid-market companies, and enterprises with remote and branch offices.
FalconStor Software
Offers a software-only storage networking solution that simplifies storage management.
Intronis
Offers disaster recovery and online backup solutions.
NetApp
Provides the AltaVault solution, which delivers enterprise-class data protection for up to 90% lower price than on-premises solutions.
Unitrends
Provides seamless integration of virtual, cloud, and physical backup and replication and disaster recovery solutions.
Veeam
Offers Veeam Cloud Connect, which provides a fully integrated, secure, and fast way to backup and restore data.
Veritas
NetBackup is their backup and recovery software, which offers products that are intended to ensure successful backup, availability, eDiscovery and archiving of information, recovery, applications, and systems for organizations ranging from small businesses to large enterprises.
