DCIG is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 2025-26 DCIG TOP 5 Midmarket Multi-hypervisor Backup Solutions Report. This DCIG TOP 5 report provides midmarket enterprises with guidance on the best backup solutions for them to choose from today to protect their multi-hypervisor environments. The report is available for a limited time to download at no charge with registration by following this link.
Multi-hypervisor Backup: From Nicety to Necessity
Broadcom’s software licensing and pricing changes since it acquired VMware have prompted many midmarket enterprises to consider adopting other hypervisors. While midmarket enterprises continue to use VMware vSphere that could rapidly change. At least one survey found that up to 70 percent of enterprises could possess multi-hypervisor environments in the coming years.
A change in hypervisor impacts midmarket enterprises in multiple ways. These impacts may range from the server hardware they use to the clouds they use to a need to retrain their IT staff. Among these changes, midmarket enterprises must also re-evaluate the backup software they use to protect their IT environment.
Not Starting Over
As they consider other backup solutions, midmarket enterprises will find they have multiple multi-hypervisor backup solutions from which to choose.
Mature backup products already protect virtualized environments (largely VMware) and use the VMware data protection APIs to do so. As such, data protection providers already know how to adopt and implement new API operations as alternative hypervisor providers continue to evolve and mature their API. Further, all evaluated data protection providers possess the internal resources to test and validate these API operations and then support them once deployed.
In short, midmarket enterprises will not have to start over when it comes to protecting alternative VMware hypervisors. However, they will find fewer backup solutions that can protect multiple hypervisors.
DCIG only evaluated thirteen (13) backup solutions as compared to the more than 30 solutions available to protect VMware vSphere. While fewer choices, these thirteen multi-hypervisor backup solutions represent established, mature offerings with the core functionality that enterprises prioritize. Further, they also possess multiple new features that address the issues that enterprises now frequently encounter.
DCIG TOP 5 Midmarket Multi-hypervisor Backup Solutions
DCIG identified over 30 different backup solutions that narrowed down to thirteen for formal evaluation as a multi-hypervisor backup solution. Across these thirteen solutions, DCIG evaluated hundreds of features on each one that DCIG grouped into the following nine general categories. These include:
- Backup Administration.
- Configuration, Licensing, and Pricing.
- General Data Protection Capabilities.
- Linux KVM Backup.
Microsoft Hyper-V Backup.- Nutanix AHV Backup.
- Recovery and Restore.
- Service and Support.
- VMware vSphere Backup.
Microsoft Hyper-V Backup.Based on these criteria, DCIG awarded the following multi-hypervisor backup solutions a DCIG TOP 5 ranking (in alphabetical order) in the midmarket enterprise space:
- Acronis Cyber Protect
- Bacula Enterprise
- HYCU R-Cloud
- Quest NetVault Plus
- Unitrends Backup Software
REPORT AVAILABILITY
The full 2025-26 DCIG TOP 5 Midmarket Multi-hypervisor Backup Solutions Report is available for download immediately for a limited time on DCIG’s site with registration by following this link. The full report contains additional details such as:
- A list of the 13 multi-hypervisor backup solutions evaluated for this report.
- The state of multi-hypervisor backup solutions.
- Features common across all evaluated multi-hypervisor backup solutions.
- Distinguishing features of the DCIG TOP 5 Midmarket Multi-hypervisor Backup Solutions.
- Differences between the DCIG TOP 5 Midmarket Multi-hypervisor Backup Solutions.
- A profile of each DCIG TOP 5 Midmarket Multi-hypervisor Backup Solution that lists at least three (3) ways each one distinguishes itself from the other solutions.
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Other than excerpts from this report published in this announcement, the contents of the 2025-26 DCIG TOP 5 Midmarket Multi-hypervisor Backup Solutions Report are copyrighted and may not be republished without the express written permission of DCIG.
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