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Top 10 Cloud Backup services for business
October 28, 2024 | Editor: Michael Stromann
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Online backup software that helps to protect business data from common forms of data loss.
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Veeam Software is the leader in Cloud Data Management, providing a simple, reliable and flexible solution for all organizations, from SMB to Enterprise
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Commvault offers industry-leading solutions that enable your organization to protect and use its data.
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Carbonite is an online backup service, available to Windows and Mac users, that backs up documents, e-mails, music, photos, and settings. Carbonite keeps small businesses and home offices running smoothly. We offer a comprehensive suite of affordable services for data protection, recovery and anytime, anywhere accessibility. From running your small business to running your household, our goal is to provide secure and affordable cloud backup for all your files.
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Rubrik's approach to data protection helps enterprises achieve Multi-Cloud Data Control. Securely recover, mobilize, and govern data everywhere. Stop managing backups. Use one policy-based solution for on-prem, at the edge, or in the cloud.
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Backblaze is a pioneer in robust, scalable low cost cloud backup and storage services. Personal online backup to enterprise scale data storage solutions. Backblaze backs up all your data – no questions asked. No picking files. No digging through folders.
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Acronis delivers the best data protection and disaster recovery for virtual, physical, mobile and cloud environments
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Cohesity eliminates mass data fragmentation by providing a single web-scale data management platform to manage the vast majority of an organization’s data—backups, file shares, object stores, and data used for dev/test and analytics.
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CrashPlan backup software offers the best way to back up and store personal, business and enterprise data securely - offsite, onsite and online in the Cloud. CrashPlan makes it easy to protect your digital life, so you can get back to what’s important in real life. Even when you step away, CrashPlan is busy at work protecting all your important files. Music, photos and documents are all automatically, continuously protected, so you can get back to whatever life throws your way.
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Druva delivers secure backup as a service to the cloud across endpoints, servers and cloud applications, with integrated workflows, global deduplication, and deep search and data analytics capabilities making data protection and information management simpler, safer and more cost effective.
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Zerto provides disaster recovery, ransomware resilience and workload mobility software for virtualized infrastructures and cloud environments.
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Datto introduces the next generation of backup, disaster recovery and Business Continuity solutions. Using image-based backup allows Datto to take an image (ie: picture) of an entire system, not simply individual files or applications. This contributes to a superior Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and the ability to boot virtual machines. Image-based backup is an integral component of Intelligent Business Continuity.
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NetBackup is the only enterprise data management solution that combines automation, artificial intelligence, and elastic architecture to improve agility and data security, on-premises and across any cloud. With 100 exabytes of information currently under management, no other solution comes close.
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Azure Backup is a cost-effective, secure, one-click backup solution that’s scalable based on your backup storage needs. The centralized management interface makes it easy to define backup policies and protect a wide range of enterprise workloads, including Azure Virtual Machines, SQL and SAP databases, and Azure file shares.
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Backupify is a backup technology provider for cloud-based data, offering archiving, search and restore solutions for online services.
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AWS Backup is a cost-effective, fully managed, policy-based service that simplifies data protection at scale.
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Backup and Recovery Solution that provides fast and affordable backup and disaster recovery for VMs, physical machines, cloud workloads and Microsoft 365.
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Authentic SaaS for Enterprise Backup. Securely and reliably protect your workloads, on-prem and in the cloud. Eliminate hardware and software with 100% SaaS.
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Asigra empowers organizations to safeguard business-critical SaaS data, ensuring backup, availability, compliance, and security across the widest portfolio of SaaS applications.
Important news about Cloud Backup services for business
2024. Commvault acquires data backup provider Clumio
Commvault, the data protection and management software firm, has acquired data backup and recovery provider Clumio. Commvault CEO Sanjay Mirchandani views Clumio as a complement to Commvault’s existing “cyber resilience” solutions for software built on AWS. Now, he says, Commvault can provide enterprises with greater options to safeguard and restore their data and cloud-native applications. AWS-dependent or not, the data backup and recovery industry is enormous, which undoubtedly influenced Commvault’s acquisition decision. According to market research firm KBV Research, the global data backup and recovery market was valued at $12.9 billion in 2023, growing at an annual compound growth rate of 10.9% from 2017 to last year.
2024. Salesforce acquired cloud backup service Own for $1.9B
Salesforce has acquired Own Company, a provider of data management and protection solutions, for $1.9 billion. Own is Salesforce’s largest acquisition since purchasing Slack for $27.7 billion in 2021. Own, established in 2015 as OwnBackup (the company rebranded last October), offers a variety of enterprise-oriented data backup tools and services such as automated backup and disaster recovery. The original concept was to utilize software-as-a-service vendors’ open APIs, including Salesforce’s, to extract and safeguard data from a company’s applications. In addition to Salesforce apps, Own supported SaaS applications hosted on AWS and Microsoft. Own has nearly 7,000 clients and hundreds of employees. The company provides a suite of data archiving, seeding, security and analytics capabilities that have significantly evolved beyond the company’s initial offerings.
2021. Acronis raises $250M to double down on cyber protection services
As cybersecurity continues to rise in prominence amid an increasingly intricate and hazardous landscape of malicious activities, a cybersecurity provider that specializes in “all-in-one” solutions covering various facets of IT security, Acronis, has secured $250 million. Initially a spinoff from the parent company of virtualization giant Parallels, Acronis first gained recognition in data recovery and backup. However, over time and to better set itself apart from rivals like Commvault, Veeam and Barracuda (among others), it has expanded to offer a comprehensive suite of services, including continuous data protection, patch management, anti-malware protection and more.
2021. Online Backup service Druva raises $147M
In the sort of cosmic hitchhiking that only the tech universe could concoct, Druva, purveyors of the cloud’s version of a safety deposit box, joyfully revealed today that it’s bagged a staggering $147 million in capital, putting its valuation comfortably into the unicorn club at over $2 billion. Meanwhile, a curious galactic alignment with Dell, whispered about back in January, was recently given its official thumbs-up, potentially providing Druva with a ready-made audience to hawk its cloud wizardry to for the foreseeable future—or at least until the next improbable event unfolds.
2020. Google acquires Actifio to step into the area of business continuity
Google has acquired Actifio, a data management firm that assists organizations with data continuity to better prepare for security breaches or other disaster recovery needs. The acquisition positions Google as a competitor against companies like Rubrik, another major player in data continuity. Google describes the startup as a “leader in backup and disaster recovery,” offering virtual copies of data that can be managed and updated for storage, testing and more. Actifio’s coverage of data across various environments — including SAP HANA, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MySQL, virtual machines (VMs) in VMware, Hyper-V, physical servers and of course Google Compute Engine — provides Google with a strong opportunity to collaborate with companies in hybrid and multi-vendor settings rather than just Google-centric environments.
2020. OwnBackup lands $50M as backup for Salesforce ecosystem thrives
OwnBackup has established itself mainly as a backup and disaster recovery solution for the Salesforce ecosystem and today the company revealed a $50 million funding round. For most SaaS applications like Salesforce, there is a shared duty for safeguarding data. Customers are accountable for the mistakes and corruption they generate. Yet despite this vulnerability, most organizations fail to back up their SaaS data or lack an easy recovery process. OwnBackup actively safeguards against losing access to critical SaaS data. Despite the pandemic, the company continues to expand, gaining 250 new clients last quarter, bringing its total to over 2,000 clients and 250 employees.
2020. Insight Partners acquires data management company Veeam for $5B
Insight Partners has acquired Swiss cloud data management firm Veeam for $5 billion. Veeam assists clients with cloud data backup and disaster recovery. The company reports $1 billion in revenue for the past year. It claims a customer base of 365,000 globally, including 81% of the Fortune 500. Veeam offers backup and recovery solutions for both Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, along with collaborations with a range of major enterprise vendors, including Cisco, IBM, Dell EMC and HPE.
2019. Backup as a service startup Clumio raises $135M
Clumio, which provides a SaaS-like solution for enterprise backup, has announced raising a $135 million Series C round. Clumio's overarching goal is to develop a platform on public clouds that delivers a unified data protection service for enterprises, covering backups of data in on-premises, cloud and SaaS applications. Initially, when the company emerged from stealth, its focus was on VMware in on-premises environments. Since then, the team has broadened its scope to include VMware running on public clouds. The next phase, as announced today, is to simplify the protection of the cloud-native applications that enterprises are currently building. The company has launched this service for AWS and plans to extend it to other clouds like Microsoft Azure in the near future.
2019. OpenText buys online backup firm Carbonite for $1.42B
In a galaxy not entirely unlike our own, Carbonite—once the stolid archivist of digital clutter—has cheerfully signed up for a $1.42 billion rendezvous with OpenText, the improbably massive overlord of enterprise information management. Over recent solar rotations, Carbonite has ditched its humdrum backup business and donned a cape, transforming into a swashbuckling defender of digital realms. February saw the audacious $618.5 million all-cash acquisition of Webroot, a cunning sentinel against ransomware and other nefarious cyber-beasties. Not to be outdone, the year before, Carbonite scooped up Mozy—a cloud backup sidekick—for a modest $145 million, proving it was always keen on assembling its own league of extraordinary software.
2019. Clumio raises $51M to bring enterprise backup into the 21st century
Creating backups for massive enterprise deployments may feel like a resolved issue, but for the most part, we’re still discussing complex hardware and software configurations. Clumio, which is emerging from stealth today, wants to modernize enterprise data protection by eliminating the on-premise hardware in favor of a flexible, SaaS-style cloud-based backup solution. In its current version, Clumio can be used to secure data from on-premise, VMware Cloud for AWS and native AWS service workloads. Given this list, it doesn’t come as a surprise that Clumio’s backend, too, makes extensive use of public cloud services.
