Technavio
has announced the top five leading vendors for the global
cloud backup and recovery software market in their latest
research report. This report also lists 14 other prominent vendors that
are expected to contribute to the market’s growth over the forecast
period.
To identify the top vendors, Technavio’s market research analysts have
considered the top contributors to the overall revenue of this market.
To calculate the market size, the report considers the revenue generated
from software licenses, maintenance fees, and services.
“Key findings of this market research study indicate, emergence of IaaS
and on-demand cloud providers will significantly boost the global cloud
backup and recovery software market. With the advent of IaaS and
on-demand cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, new virtualization
strategies have emerged. Most enterprises are quickly adopting these
strategies to eliminate infrastructure limitations by developing and
deploying applications on a single piece of hardware,” said Amrita
Choudhury, one of Technavio’s lead market research analysts for the enterprise
application industry.
“The evolution of software as a service (SaaS) and IaaS has opened up
many opportunities for smaller enterprises and startup companies to
explore and deploy their ideas with greater agility. Enterprises are
finding the cloud backup and recovery strategy attractive as it allows
them to achieve more for virtually the same budget,” added Amrita.
Five leading vendors in the global cloud backup and recovery software
market:
CA Technologies
CA Technologies was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in New York,
US. They develop, and market licenses and support standardized computer
software products. As of March 31, 2015, they have about 5,100 employees
worldwide and recorded revenue of around USD 4.26 billion. The company
owns 1,050 patents worldwide and invests USD 600 million in software
development each year.
CA Disk Backup and Restore (CA Disk) offers comprehensive data
management for protecting, restoring, and archiving critical data to
make the best use of the storage hierarchy. These products help
enterprises in optimizing their storage resources and controlling costs
by archiving occasionally used data sets to less expensive storage media.
CA Disk manages storage growth effectively via a standardized interface,
automation flexibility, control, and data integrity.
CommVault
CommVault Systems offers data management software applications and
related services. It develops, sells, and markets a range of data
management software applications to manage and protect data throughout
its life cycle. The company was founded in 1996 but originally started
out as a development group in Bell Labs in 1988.
They have strategic partnerships with companies such as Microsoft,
Hitachi Data Systems, VMware and HP, mainly providing solutions for
mid-sized and large enterprises. CommVault Systems offer Simpana, a
low-cost software solution that helps enterprises overcome data
protection challenges with less complexity and risk. Simpana is
CommVault's unified data management suite, which comprises IT products
that facilitate deduplication, backup and recovery, archiving, and
replication. With Simpana, system admins can oversee different CommVault
products from a single management console.
CommVault's hybrid cloud backup works with different vendors, including
Amazon Web Service's Glacier and S3 and Microsoft Windows Azure. Simpana
has integration and management tools, security features, backup and
recovery software, efficient cloud infrastructure, cloud partner
ecosystem, and more.
EMC
EMC was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Hopkinton, US. They
market their products directly and through its distribution channels in
86 countries. They have R&D centers in China, Brazil, Israel, France,
Russia, Ireland, Singapore, India, and the US, with manufacturing
facilities in Ireland and the US.
They offer information security, data storage, analytics,
virtualization, cloud computing, and other products and services that
enable businesses to manage, store, protect, and analyze data.
EMC provides enterprise storage systems and software deployed in storage
area networks, networked attached storage, unified storage combining
both object storage and direct attached storage environments, as well as
backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and archiving solutions.
Microsoft
Microsoft was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Washington, US.
They develop, license, and support a broad range of software products
and services. Their product offerings include server applications for
distributed computing environments, business solution applications,
devices, servers, phones, productivity applications, and desktop and
server management tools. They offer these products and services to
governmental institutions, educational institutions, SMEs, Internet
service providers, application developers, and original equipment
manufacturers (OEMs). As of June 2015, the company had close to 118,000
employees globally and generated a total revenue of around USD 93.38
billion in FY2015.
SQL server, together with Microsoft Azure, can help reduce costs, lower
recovery time objective RTO, and improve enterprises' disaster and
backup recovery capabilities. SQL server backup to Microsoft Azure
enables enterprises to configure their backups to be stored on the
cloud. The backup files can be encrypted and compressed, which enables
greater data protection.
IBM
IBM was established in 1911 and is headquartered in New York, US. They
offer various types of hardware, software, consulting, and
infrastructure services. The company employs more than 379,500 employees
and operates in more than 175 countries. IBM serves various industries,
including automotive, banking, chemicals and petroleum, communications,
insurance, life sciences, media and entertainment, metals and mining,
and retail.
IBM’s technology, tools, and expertise have made it a leader in business
continuity and resilience. IBM Cloud Managed Backup offers the following
features:
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Flexible delivery choices: Includes private, public, or hybrid clouds
to fit the business needs of enterprises.
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Scalable with growing data: Creates a cost-effective, scalable
infrastructure that can reduce capital expenses with a pay-per-use
model.
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Technological efficiencies: Includes advanced encryption and data
deduplication, as well as automatic data backup.
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Redundant infrastructure: Provides both on-site and off-site options
for storage and restore services.
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Interactive portal: Provides around-the-clock access to mission
critical data of enterprises, as well as multi-format reporting and
alert notifications.