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
  • Automated Backup Testing and Verification
  • Recovery Automation
  • Integration with Other Security Software
  • FOUR EYES principle
  • AI enhanced predictive backup
  • AI Tech Support

Top Backup and Availability Software

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Products: 19
Next Award: Nov 2026

Top Backup and Availability Software 2025

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Backup Exec gives you simple, complete backup and recovery protection for your business—to cover all data wherever it resides.

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Pros

  • Fair
  • Helps Innovate
  • Trustworthy
  • Caring
Composite Score
8.2 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10

VM Backup is a powerful, reliable, and easy-to-use backup and replication solution for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines (VMs), and physical Windows servers, that prevents enterprise data loss. Its powerful Augmented Inline Deduplication reduces backup storage requirements up to 65 percent and drastically improves backup and recovery speeds. 

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy
  • Effective Service
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IBM Storage Protect™ provides comprehensive data resilience for physical file servers, virtual environments, and a wide range of applications. Organizations can scale up to manage billions of objects per backup server. Clients can reduce backup infrastructure costs with built-in data efficiency capabilities and the ability to migrate or copy data to tape, public cloud services, and on-premises object storage. IBM Storage Protect can also store IBM Storage Protect Plus data, allowing companies to take advantage of their existing investment for long-term data retention and disaster recovery.

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Pros

  • Performance Enhancing
  • Respectful
  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy
Barracuda Networks

Barracuda Backup

Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10

Barracuda Backup makes it easier and more cost-effective than ever for you to protect all your data from cyber criminals, natural disasters, hardware failures, and more. Physical, virtual, cloud, and SaaS — a single, integrated solution keeps all your data safe.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Trustworthy
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Enables Productivity

A fully featured platform for backup, recovery, and business continuity for local, virtual, and Cloud environments.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
Composite Score
7.6 /10
CX Score
7.6 /10

As the world’s most experienced provider of backup and disaster recovery solutions, for 35 years we’ve been solving the challenges of IT teams by bringing innovation, ambition, and countless hours of iteration to the solutions they rely on to keep businesses running smoothly. In the process, we’ve redefined the way companies protect their data – the very foundation of modern business in an era where immediate access to critical systems and applications is key to business continuity and essential to continuing growth and success.

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Pros

  • Trustworthy
  • Respectful
  • Fair
  • Reliable

Discover the industry-leading disaster recovery software to enable application availability and mobility across sites in private cloud environments with policy-based management, non- disruptive testing and automated orchestration.

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Pros

  • Trustworthy
  • Respectful
  • Reliable
  • Fair
OpenText Corporation

OpenText Data Protector

Composite Score
7.4 /10
CX Score
7.6 /10

OpenText Data Protector standardizes and consolidates backups across multiple platforms. It provides secure, comprehensive backup protection for business-critical data and applications whether virtual, physical, or online in the cloud.

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Pros

  • Client's Interest First
  • Transparent
  • Generous Negotitation
  • Over Delivered

Data is growing rapidly and becoming more fragmented across many clouds and virtual environments. Unified data protection is the only way your IT organization can deliver required Service Levels while limiting cost and risk, regardless of whether data resides on-premises or in the cloud.

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Pros

  • Efficient Service
  • Respectful
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Saves Time

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BackBox.Org

Backbox

Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10

BackBox offers a simple way to ensure all network and security device backups are fully collected, stored securely, and available to restore with a single-click when needed. Our network and security automation software is also able to provide 1,000’s of other custom task automations associated with the maintaining these devices, as well as dynamic inventory management and pre-emptive device health checks for over 150+ technology vendors.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing