![]() Cloud capabilities became a new measure in the MQ. Gartner took notice.įast forward a few years, and cloud offerings for offsite data storage became the new buzzwords. Veeam has been a “backup and replication” product since early on, while most products were simply labeled “backup and recovery.” I always found this a bit odd, because if you couldn’t recover a backup, then what good was it? The bigger “a-HA!” for Veeam came when customers learned they could actually recover entire virtual machines-successfully, mind you-within minutes. Since their first appearance on the Magic Quadrant, Veeam has continued to innovate and be thought and product leaders in the market. Implementation costs are lower, ongoing realized costs remain lower, yet satisfaction and the “wow, this actually works” factor remains high. ![]() Again, Veeam has remained the exception, with ease of implementation and use being a core consideration for customers. Complex implementation and management/maintenance of products translates to more overhead and dollars (e.g., higher TCO, higher risk) and has remained a pain point for many products. One of the items that rings true to customers of all sizes is the ease of implementation and use of the products. Veeam Software is an unusual participant in the quadrant, given that they entered it in the visionary section, and were the first company to do so with only a virtualization offering, being “built for virtualization.” All the other companies had solutions to protect physical environments or were created to protect physical and then bootstrapped or developed into the virtual space. ![]() This is for good reason, although Gartner recommends against buying solely based on what is farthest top and right, stating that niche and visionary products may be extremely well-suited for a company’s needs. It’s that time of year again, when the analysts analyze and publish the Gartner Magic Quadrant insight into products and solutions ahead of a calendar year budget cycle. ![]()
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