Complimentary Report Provides MIDMARKET Enterprises with Guidance on the Best VMware Backup Solutions for Deployment in Today’s Virtualized Environments.
OMAHA, Neb., (February 18th, 2025) – DCIG is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 2025-26 DCIG TOP 5 Midmarket VMware Backup Report. This DCIG TOP 5 report provides midmarket enterprises with guidance on the best VMware backup solutions for deployment in today’s virtualized server environments. The report is available for free download with registration.
The individuals responsible for the ongoing protection and recovery of their enterprise VMware infrastructure currently face a bit of a dilemma. On the one hand, little has changed regarding the technicalities of backing up VMware vSphere ESX/ESXi virtual machines. The mature VMware vSphere Storage APIs—Data Protection (VADP) work well with all enterprise data protection solutions supporting them. Further, many enterprises have established processes for managing their VMware backups with multiple, robust recovery options available to them.
On the other hand, from a business and threat perspective, everything has changed. Factors like ransomware threats and Broadcom licensing changes highlight that VADP support by itself no longer sets one VMware backup solution apart from another. Most VMware backup providers have introduced multiple new features into their solutions to meet these and other challenges.
In preparing this report, DCIG formally evaluated over 30 different VMware backup solutions of which 17 met DCIG’s criteria for a midmarket VMware backup solution. The general categories under which the features of these VMware backup solutions fell included:
Backup administration.- Configuration, licensing, and pricing.
- General data protection capabilities.
- Recovery and restore.
- Service and support.
- VMware vSphere ESX/ESXi VM backup.
Backup administration.Based on these criteria, DCIG awarded the following midmarket VMware backup solutions a DCIG TOP 5 ranking (in alphabetical order):
- Acronis Cyber Protect
- Ahsay Backup
- Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP)
- AWS Backup for VMware
- Bacula Systems VMware Backup
The full DCIG TOP 5 report is available for immediate download. The full report contains additional details such as:
- A list of the 17 midmarket VMware backup solutions evaluated.
- A deeper examination of the state of midmarket VMware backup solutions.
- Four nuanced differences between enterprise and midmarket backup solutions.
- Common features across all midmarket VMWare backup solutions.
- Distinguishing features of the DCIG TOP 5 Midmarket VMware Backup Solutions.
- Differences between the DCIG TOP 5 Midmarket VMware Backup Solutions.
- A profile of each DCIG TOP 5 Midmarket VMware Backup Solutions that lists at least three (3) ways each one distinguishes itself from the other solutions.
Individuals may access the full report at no cost by following the link below.
2025-26 DCIG TOP 5 Midmarket VMware Backup Report
Other than excerpts published in this press release and the DCIG article announcing the reports availability, found here, the contents of the 2025-26 DCIG TOP 5 Midmarket VMware Backup Report are copyrighted and may not be republished without permission.
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If you would like more information about this topic, please contact Todd Dorsey at 844.324.4552 x 904 or email todd.dorsey@dcig.com.