Enterprise Backup and Disaster Recovery Platforms sector
Strategic acquirers, private equity (buyout funds and growth funds) firms, and valuation benchmarks for Enterprise Backup and Disaster Recovery Platforms
1.1 - About Enterprise Backup and Disaster Recovery Platforms sector
Companies in the Enterprise Backup and Disaster Recovery Platforms category deliver data protection and continuity solutions that safeguard mission‑critical systems against outages, cyberattacks, and site failures. They centralize backup and recovery across on‑premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, automate failover, and verify recoverability. Customers use these platforms to meet RPO/RTO objectives, maintain compliance, and ensure business continuity through consistent, auditable backups and orchestrated disaster recovery.
Offerings typically include enterprise backup software with application‑consistent snapshots, continuous data protection, and bare‑metal restore; replication and automated failover for critical workloads; disaster recovery orchestration with runbooks and dependency mapping; cloud backup and DRaaS to protect hybrid estates; immutable storage layers with ransomware detection and malware scanning; granular recovery for databases, VMs, and files; plus policy‑based retention, auditing, and automated recovery testing and reporting.
These vendors serve enterprise IT operations teams, mid‑market IT organizations, and regulated industries such as financial services and healthcare. Outcomes include faster incident recovery with tighter RTO/RPO adherence, reduced downtime and data loss during disruptions, improved compliance and audit readiness, and stronger resilience against ransomware. They enable standardized recovery processes, consolidation of tooling, and risk reduction across multi‑cloud, data center, and edge environments.
2. Buyers in the Enterprise Backup and Disaster Recovery Platforms sector
2.1 Top strategic acquirers of Enterprise Backup and Disaster Recovery Platforms companies
Rubrik
- Description: Provider of cloud data management and protection solutions through its Rubrik Security Cloud SaaS platform and Cluster Software, enabling organisations to securely manage and protect data in the cloud while meeting global security, privacy and compliance standards.
- Key Products:
- Rubrik Security Cloud (RSC) SaaS platform: Provides a cloud environment certified under ISO 27001/27017/27018
- SOC 2
- SOC 3
- HIPAA and BSI C5, delivering secure data management with audit-ready compliance for security, confidentiality and availability
- Cluster Software: On-premises software using FIPS 140-validated cryptography
- Common Criteria EAL2+ and DoDIN APL approval to help organisations manage and protect data in the cloud with government-grade security
- Rubrik Security Cloud – Government (RSC-G): Government-focused cloud service achieving StateRAMP Moderate
- TX-RAMP Level 2
- CJIS and FERPA attestations plus AZRAMP Moderate to support compliant data protection for public sector agencies.
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2.2 - Strategic buyer groups for Enterprise Backup and Disaster Recovery Platforms sector
M&A buyer group 1: Cloud Backup Storage
Smarsh
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- Description: Provider of compliance and communications archiving solutions that offer Professional Archive software and tiered Service Packages helping financial and other firms streamline supervision, generate audit-ready evidence of message data, customize policy alerts, review dashboards, run reports, and receive expert health checks and outsourced first-level message review to meet evolving regulatory requirements.
- Key Products:
- Archiving Software: Captures, indexes and stores electronic communications in a secure repository, enabling fast search and long-term retention to satisfy regulatory archiving mandates and internal governance
- Compliance & Supervision Tools: Monitors archived content against policies, flags potential violations and facilitates supervisory review workflows for firms operating under strict regulatory oversight
- E-discovery Solution: Provides advanced search, review and export of archived communications, streamlining legal holds and investigative requests during litigation or regulatory inquiries
- Mobile Communication Monitoring: Leverages MobileGuard technology to record, monitor and retain text messages and calls from mobile devices, ensuring compliant mobile interaction records for financial and other regulated sectors.
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●● companies3. Investors and private equity firms in Enterprise Backup and Disaster Recovery Platforms sector
3.1 - Buyout funds in the Enterprise Backup and Disaster Recovery Platforms sector
2.2 - Strategic buyer groups for Enterprise Backup and Disaster Recovery Platforms sector
4 - Top valuation comps for Enterprise Backup and Disaster Recovery Platforms companies
4.2 - Public trading comparable groups for Enterprise Backup and Disaster Recovery Platforms sector
Valuation benchmark group 1: Enterprise Data Storage Software Companies
Microsoft
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- Description: Provider of software, services, devices, and solutions including operating systems, productivity software, enterprise applications, server products, cloud services, and gaming systems to enhance productivity, facilitate communication, and enable digital transformation for personal and business use.
- Key Products:
- Windows: Operating system for personal computers and workstations
- Office 365: Subscription-based productivity suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Azure: Cloud computing platform offering virtual machines, databases, and storage solutions
- Xbox: Gaming console with access to various video games and entertainment content
- Dynamics 365: Enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management applications.