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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Next Award: Nov 2026

Top Backup and Availability Software 2025

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Barracuda’s Cloud-to-Cloud Backup Service backs up all of your Office 365 data to secure Barracuda Cloud Storage with no need for on-premises infrastructure. You can back up data on demand or according to an automated schedule. All Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business data is deduplicated and compressed for maximum storage efficiency and reduced backup windows before being stored in the Barracuda Cloud. Exchange Online - Barracuda protects the complete folder structure of each user’s mailbox including all email message and attachments. OneDrive for Business - All files and folders under the Documents Library are protected.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
SEP Software, LLC

SEP Virtual Backup

Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10

SEP offers exceptional backup, recovery, replication and encryption for virtual platforms, including VMware, Hyper-V, Red Hat Virtualization, Citrix, KVM/QEMU, OpenNebula, and zVM. SEP virtual solutions are fully integrated, are easily installed and allow for maximum flexibility when designing backup strategies.

Pros

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

NAKIVO offers VM backup, replication, failover, backup to cloud, backup copy, backup size reduction, screenshot verification, and multiple recovery options - all in one convenient web interface.

Pros

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

CrashPlan

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
7.8 /10

CrashPlan provides peace of mind through easy-to-use, automatic data loss protection. We help organizations recover and bounce back faster from any worst-case scenario, whether it is a disaster, simple human error, a stolen laptop, ransomware and more. The CrashPlan data solution is a product of Code42, an industry leader protecting the critical data of more than 50,000 world-class organizations, including the largest global brands.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy

Designed on Google-like principles, Cohesity simplifies data protection by converging backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery on a single, hyperconverged, cloud-native platform. Gain unparalleled app and data mobility with a software-defined solution that spans from your core to the cloud and edge.

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Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Efficient Service
  • Altruistic
  • Reliable

NetBackup Appliances integrate multiple components into a single device, streamlining management, operation, and support—and saving you money and critical IT resources

Pros

  • Includes Product Enhancements
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
  • Efficient Service

With a unique network-based data security architecture, Asigra provides inline advanced antimalware, encryption, authentication, and obfuscation features to do what traditional backup software can’t do. Protect your backup data from determined attackers so you avoid paying ransoms. This scalability enablesTigris Secure Backup to support additional backup loads and multiple operating systems, servers, databases, applications, and storage environments.

Pros

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

Igneous provides a consolidated secondary storage tier for your datacenter with cloud agility, scalability, and economics.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

Kaseya Backup & Disaster Recovery provides real-time automated disk backup, disk imaging, file-level backup and bare-metal restore for Windows servers and workstations. Unlike file-based-only products, this solution creates an image of the entire system state – giving administrators the framework to completely rebuild a downed system in less than an hour. Kaseya Backup & Disaster Recovery enables:

Pros

  • Efficient Service
  • Respectful
  • Client Friendly Policies
  • Altruistic

Cons

  • Less Effective Service
  • Less Caring
  • Leverages Incumbent Status

Carbonite backup solutions provide comprehensive protection for your data center, with flexible deployment options and multi-platform support, plus powerful high availability plans to protect your critical systems from disruptions of any kind.

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Pros

  • Efficient Service
  • Respectful
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Security Protects