Leader: Veritas Technologies
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based data management company won third place in execution and fourth place in vision on the Magic Quadrant. Veritas Technologies’ NetBackup has been the market leader for revenue in backup and recovery market for more than a decade, and includes a broad set of functionality and protection for traditional applications. Founded in 1983, Vertias Technologies was purchased by Symantec in 2004 and then sold to global investment firm The Carlyle Group in 2016. Veritas has a broad portfolio including backup and recovery, business continuity, information governance, software-defined storage and multicloud data management. Veritas delivers NetBackup both as a software-only offering that can be deployed on a customer’s own hardware, as well as an integrated scale-up appliance that runs the backup software and stores backup data.
NetBackup is a proven product in the most demanding environments, which is why its favored by large organizations with a complex mix of legacy, traditional and modern applications.
Strength: NetBackup has proven scale, with several customers deploying multiple petabytes and more than 1,000 clients in a single environment.
Weakness: Veritas appliances scale in storage capacity and not compute, requiring additional data movers for better performance in larger environments.
