Backup and Availability Software

Backup and Availability

What is Backup and Availability Software?

Backup and Availability software provides business continuity and recovery to ensure organizations data and information are resilient and can be restored following disasters or outages.

Common Features

  • Backup Automation
  • Deduplication Implementation
  • Virtual Machine Backup
  • Replication for High Availability
  • Application Awareness
  • Physical Backup for Multiple Platforms
  • Backup Monitoring and Reporting
  • File Explorer Granular Restore
  • Backup of Cloud Based Data
  • Integration With Storage Arrays
  • Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery
  • Analytics
  • Continuous Data Protection
  • Application Consistency Groupings
  • Automated Backup Testing and Verification

Top Backup and Availability Software

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Next Award: Oct 2025

Top Backup and Availability Software 2024

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9.0 /10
CX Score
9.0 /10

MSP360 Managed Backup (MBS) (formerly Cloudberry Lab) is an easy-to-use backup solution for Managed Service Providers and IT departments that require a centralized license and job management, monitoring, and reporting. MBS allows you to leverage AWS, Microsoft Azure, Backblaze B2, and Wasabi cloud storage to drive more revenue and deliver best-in-class data protection to your customers.

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Pros

  • Enables Productivity
  • Client Friendly Policies
  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy
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8.9 /10
CX Score
9.0 /10

Hornetsecurity VM Backup is a fast, affordable, high performance backup solution, specially developed for small and mid-market businesses. We’ve cut the waste and hassle to give you an agile, streamlined solution that is easy to implement, feature-rich, with outstanding support as part of the package.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy
  • Effective Service
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Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Azure Backup

Composite Score
8.8 /10
CX Score
9.0 /10

Protect your data with a cloud-based backup as a service Keep your data in Azure and on-premises safe. Backup supports VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines running on Linux and Windows, as well as physical Windows Servers.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
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Composite Score
8.7 /10
CX Score
8.8 /10

With Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, you can deliver integrated backup, disaster recovery, cybersecurity, and endpoint management at scale, while preserving your margins and streamlining your business operations with powerful automation capabilities and broad integrations.

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Pros

  • Security Protects
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy
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8.7 /10
CX Score
8.7 /10

Veeam is the leader in Backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management. Veeam provides a single platform for modernizing backup, accelerating hybrid cloud and securing your data. With 365,000 + customers worldwide, including 81% of the Fortune 500 and 66% of the Global 2,000.

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Pros

  • Fair
  • Friendly Negotiation
  • Reliable
  • Caring
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Composite Score
8.6 /10
CX Score
8.7 /10

Rubrik simplifies backup and recovery for virtualized and physical environments. Eliminate backup software by integrating data orchestration, catalog management, and deduplicated storage into a single, scale-out fabric.

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Pros

  • Performance Enhancing
  • Caring
  • Saves Time
  • Client Friendly Policies
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Commvault Systems

Commvault Cloud

Composite Score
8.5 /10
CX Score
8.6 /10

Introducing Commvault® Cloud Powered by Metallic® AI: Meet the cyber resilience platform built for the hybrid enterprise. Commvault Cloud delivers true cloud cyber resilience while ensuring the fastest recovery. It’s the ultimate weapon against ransomware.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Security Protects
  • Reliable
  • Efficient Service
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8.5 /10
CX Score
8.9 /10

AWS Backup is a cost-effective, fully managed, policy-based service that simplifies data protection at scale.

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Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
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8.4 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10

Vembu is a leading player in the Backup and Disaster Recovery market for Small/Medium Businesses, Enterprise Businesses, and Service Providers. Vembu's flagship offering - BDRSuite - is a Comprehensive and Cost-Effective Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution designed to protect data across Data Center/Private Cloud (VMware, Hyper-V, Windows, Linux, Applications & Databases), Public Cloud (AWS), SaaS Application (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace), and Endpoints (Windows, Mac). Our solutions are extremely affordable and ideal for businesses of any size. Businesses can save up to 70% on backup costs using BDRSuite compared to the Industry Leader.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Transparent
  • Fair
  • Caring
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise

Zerto Platform

Composite Score
8.3 /10
CX Score
8.6 /10

Zerto Platform is a data replication software that assists in data recovery in both private and public clouds. Zerto brings together everything that’s required to keep your infrastructure protected in a single, simple, and scalable cloud data management and protection platform. Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, empowers customers to run an always-on business by simplifying the protection, recovery, and mobility of on-premises and cloud applications. Zerto’s cloud data management and protection platform eliminates the risks and complexity of modernization and cloud adoption across private, public, and hybrid deployments.

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  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Saves Time
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