Veritas Named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions for the 19th Time (2024)

Veritas Named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions for the 19th Time (1)

Recognized for completeness of vision and ability to execute

SINGAPORE, Aug. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ --Veritas Technologies, the leader in secure multi-cloud data resilience, today announced it has been positioned as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions (EBRSS). Veritas is the only vendor that Gartner has named a Leader in each of its last 19 enterprise backup and recovery software reports.1

Continuously building on its reputation for innovation, performance and flexibility across data protection, application resilience and data compliance, Veritas proudly supports more than 90% of Fortune 100 companies and has helped guide the industry through every significant IT disruption over the last 30 years. Veritas is now partnering with customers to address a new era of data challenges, where data protection and resiliency has become a vital part of organizations' IT strategies. The result is a unique set of capabilities for managing the complexity of today's multi-cloud and heterogenous environments, while also hardening their defenses against ransomware attacks.

Deepak Mohan, executive vice president of engineering at Veritas, said: "The next frontier in data protection has arrived, where very large numbers of cloud and on-premises applications need to be protected from cyber-attacks, enabling organizations to recover fast and at scale.Veritas is optimized to protect the broadest range of platforms, and enables customers to confidently recover from all kinds of breaches. We believe that our consistent position as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for EBRSS underscores the strength of the Veritas product vision and breadth of our cloud-native data resilience solutions."

In recent months, Veritas has expanded its portfolio to include several new capabilities:

Veritas 360 Defense

The first extensible architecture bringing together data protection, data governance, and data security capabilities integrated with an ecosystem of leading security and cloud infrastructure vendors. Veritas 360 Defensehas been battle tested against real-world ransomware variants in the Veritas REDLabisolated testing environment.

AI-powered cyber resilience solutions

Another first-of-its-kind, Veritas introduced self-defending data protection functionality, which allows Veritas NetBackupandVeritas Alta Data Protection to monitor and defend against threats from compromised data protection user credentials.Veritas also announced a generative AI-powered copilotto act as a sidekick in the fight against cybercrime as well as to simplify other operational tasks.

Extended cloud-native solution enhancements

Veritas additionally launched multiple enhancements to its Alta cloud solutions, including simplified consumption reporting, expanded support for workloads, such as Entra ID, and cross platform support for Kubernetes workload recovery.

Visit Veritas.com on Friday Aug 9 to download a complimentary copy of the full 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions.

1Previous titles include Magic Quadrant and Datacenter Backup and Recovery Solutions (2020-2019), Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup Software and Integrated Appliances (2014-2015), Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup/Recovery Software (2011-2013), Enterprise Backup and Restore Magic Quadrant (2001, 2003-2005), Enterprise Backup Vendor Magic Quadrant (1999-2000). From 2005-2015, Veritas Technologies was known as Symantec. 

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions, Michael Hoeck, Jason Donham, Rene Rodriguez, Chandra Mukhyala, August 6, 2024. 

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About Veritas
Veritas Technologies is the leader in secure multi-cloud data management. More than 80,000 customers—including 91% of the Fortune 100—rely on Veritasto help ensure the protection, recoverability and compliance of their data. Veritas has a reputation for reliability at scale, which delivers the resilience itscustomers need against the disruptions threatened by cyberattacks, like ransomware. No other vendor is able to match Veritas' ability to execute, with support for 800+ data sources, 100+ operating systems and 1,400+ storage targets through a single, unified approach. Powered by Cloud Scale Technology, Veritas is delivering today on itsstrategy for Autonomous Data Management that reduces operational overhead while delivering greater value. Learn more atVeritas.com.Follow uson X at@VeritasTechLLC.

Veritas and the Veritas Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Veritas Technologies LLC or its affiliates in the US and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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Veritas Named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions for the 19th Time (2024)

FAQs

Who owns Veritas backup? ›

What does Veritas Backup Exec do? ›

Backup Exec offers the true, unified, cost-effective data protection required for backups across cloud, virtual and physical deployments via a single console. A fast, cost-effective, unified backup and recovery solution to protect data wherever it lives—virtual, physical and cloud.

Why did Symantec sell Veritas? ›

Symantec intended to use proceeds from the Veritas sale to compete in the cyber security market with companies such as Microsoft Corp , Intel Corp and Kaspersky Labs. Symantec acquired Veritas for $13.5 billion in 2005.

Who bought out Veritas? ›

Cohesity Acquires Veritas: Challenges Emerge when 2 Companies Merge. In this blog, we look at the recent acquisition news from Cohesity and Veritas, discuss the challenges they will face due to their overlapping portfolio, and the critical questions their customers will have to face.

Are Veritas backups encrypted? ›

Backup Exec supports two security levels of encryption: 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and 256-bit AES. The 256-bit AES encryption provides a stronger level of security because the key is longer for 256-bit AES than for 128-bit AES.

What are the minimum requirements for Veritas Backup Exec? ›

For the Central Admin Server Option: 1 GB RAM is required; 2 GB RAM is recommended. System Recovery Disk: 1 GB minimum (dedicated) for the multi-lingual version. Virtual Memory Recommendations: 20 MB above the Windows recommended size for total paging file size (total for all disk volumes).

What is the difference between Veritas NetBackup and Veritas Backup Exec? ›

The primary difference between NetBackup vs. Backup Exec is that Backup Exec is designed for small to midsize businesses, while NetBackup is designed solely for the enterprise. Both products offer a wide range of features, but NetBackup has a more advanced feature set because it is designed for enterprise use.

Why did Cohesity acquire Veritas? ›

The combined innovations of Cohesity and Veritas will offer organizations a comprehensive multi cloud data protection portfolio with a powerful, simple user experience, and a high-performance, centrally managed hyperconverged platform.

Who bought Veritas NetBackup? ›

Cohesity Taking Veritas NetBackup, But Not Backup Exec

We're acquiring four key products that we will combine with Cohesity: Veritas NetBackup, NetBackup appliances, Alta cloud data management, and Aptare IT Analytics. And we're combining that with Cohesity's data platform.

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