IDC MarketScape: WW Cyber-Recovery 2025 Vendor Assessment
Commvault Named a Leader in Worldwide Cyber-Recovery 2025 Vendor Assessment
When a cyberattack hits, your ability to recover clean, trusted data is everything. Not all solutions are built for that reality.
This report shows which platforms are actually equipped for modern cyber recovery – and what to prioritize before you make a decision.
Here’s what you’ll find in the evaluation:
- Named a Leader across capabilities and strategy axes
- Recognized for cyber-recovery architecture and workload breadth
- Evaluated among 11 of the cyber recovery vendors worldwide
- Includes analyst guidance on what to evaluate when selecting a cyber recovery platform
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10 pages
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15 min read
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Published October 2025
Inside the Excerpt
What the IDC MarketScape reveals about cyber-recovery
This excerpt shares IDC MarketScape’s independent analysis of Commvault’s cyber-recovery capabilities and strengths alongside practical guidance for evaluating vendors.
Why Cyber-Recovery Requires More
IDC MarketScape defines the foundational capabilities organizations needs for true cyber-resilience and data survival.
Commvault's Recognized Strengths
IDC MarketScape highlights Commvault’s strengths including: cyber-recovery architecture, workload and platform breadth, security ecosystem integration, and dedicated cyber-resilience training.
Security Ecosystem Integration Depth
Commvault’s bidirectional integration with SIEM, SOAR, and XDR platforms enables automated incident response workflows, least-privilege access enforcement, and continuous posture assessment from familiar security tools.
Buyer Guidance From IDC Analysts
IDC MarketScape provides direct guidance on evaluating complexity, breadth of solution, service offerings, and vendor fit — helping IT and security leaders build a short list with confidence.
When to Consider Commvault
According to IDC MarketScape, “Consider identifies Commvault when seeking a single, unified cyber-recovery platform with a wide range of coverage for both legacy and modern workloads. This solution is particularly suited for large enterprises seeking to reduce technology sprawl, align data resilience strategies with evolving security and compliance mandates, and bolstering their staff’s cyber-resilience skill set.”
The Threat Landscape
Data-driven insights shaping cyber-recovery investment
11
Vendors evaluated in the IDC MarketScape worldwide assessment
33%+
Plan to significantly increase cyber-recovery budgets in 2025
5
NIST cyber resilience pillars assessed: identify, detect, protect, respond, recover
Who should read this
Built for Security and IT Leaders
Benchmark Your Cyber-Recovery Posture
Use IDC MarketScape’s independent analysis to validate your cyber-recovery strategy, assess vendor options against analyst criteria, and build board-level confidence in your resilience investments.
Evaluate Platforms Without Bias
IDC’s MarketScape’s framework gives infrastructure leaders a structured lens for comparing cyber-recovery vendors on capabilities, hybrid cloud coverage, workload breadth, and long-term strategic direction.
Understand What Recovery Requires
Learn why cyber-recovery goes beyond traditional backup — including the specific capabilities IDC MarketScape says are required for data survival, data integrity, and rapid recovery after ransomware.
Shortlist Vendors With Confidence
IDC MarketScape’s evaluation of 11 cyber-recovery vendors — using consistent criteria including NIST framework coverage, deployment flexibility, and service depth — provides a rigorous foundation for competitive shortlisting.
Report Highlights
How does Commvault cyber recovery architecture address ransomware?
Challenge
Ransomware recovery demands more than clean backups. Organizations need architectures that guarantee data survival, eliminate reinfection risk, and restore operations before the cost of downtime forces a ransom decision.
Approach
Commvault Cloud combines data isolation, immutability, air-gap storage, and orchestrated cleanroom recovery under a unified control plane — with inline anomaly detection and AI-powered threat scanning at every stage of the backup lifecycle.
Insight
The IDC MarketScape noted, “Commvault Cloud combines data isolation, immutability, air gap, and orchestrated cleanroom recovery workflows under a unified control plane. This architecture supports granular restoration from verified malware-free recovery points and incorporates inline, pre-, and post-backup anomaly detection to minimize reinfection risk. Built-in data discovery and classification, cyber deception, and AI-powered threat scanning help reduce data risks.”
What should enterprises look for in a cyber-recovery vendor?
Challenge
No cyber-recovery vendor offers the perfect solution for every organization. Buyers must navigate trade-offs between platform complexity, breadth of capabilities, service depth, and cost — without a neutral framework to guide decisions.
Approach
IDC MarketScape methodology evaluates vendors across Capabilities (current product depth) and Strategies (three-to-five year alignment with customer needs) — providing a structured, bias-free framework for enterprise shortlisting.
Written by an IDC Expert
Jonny Yu
Research Manager, Infrastructure Software Platforms, Core Infrastructure
Johnny Yu is a Research Manager at IDC specializing in enterprise infrastructure, with a focus on data logistics, protection, and management. His research covers data protection, cyber resilience, archiving software, container data management, and storage security. He also examines the impact of AI on ransomware defense and how organizations balance cost optimization across competing IT priorities.
Phil Goodwin
Research Vice President, Infrastructure Software
Phil Goodwin is Research Vice President and global research lead for the infrastructure software platforms practice at IDC, where he leads a team delivering insights on infrastructure software trends, vendor performance, and emerging technology adoption. His research focuses on AI-ready data storage, data protection as-a-service, cyber protection and recovery, and recovery orchestration, taking a holistic view that encompasses risk analysis, service levels, and cost/benefit considerations. He also contributes regularly to IDC’s CIO advisory practice.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the IDC MarketScape for cyber-recovery?
The IDC MarketScape: Worldwide cyber-Recovery 2025 is an independent vendor assessment evaluating 11 of the most prominent cyber-recovery platforms on capabilities and long-term strategy. It helps IT and security buyers differentiate vendors and build a qualified shortlist.
Why was Commvault named a Leader?
IDC MarketScape recognized Commvault as a Leader based on capabilities and strengths.
What is cyber recovery, and how is it different from backup?
Cyber recovery goes beyond traditional backup and disaster recovery. It specifically addresses ransomware and cyberattack scenarios by adding capabilities such as data integrity verification, malware-free recovery point validation, air-gapped storage, cleanroom orchestration, and forensic analysis — capabilities traditional DR typically do not provide.
What workloads does Commvault Cloud support for cyber-recovery?
Commvault Cloud supports cyber-recovery across on-premises, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud workloads — including files, virtual machines, containers, databases, SaaS applications, and cloud-native workloads. Its any-to-any portability enables recovery across heterogeneous platforms and cloud providers.
What does IDC MarketScape recommend for evaluating cyber-recovery vendors?
According to IDC MarketScape, some of the key buying criteria are: complexity, breadth of solution service offerings, price, and incumbency. The IDC MarketScape recommends that IT buyers are advised to use this document in the short list formulation to narrow the field and then apply their own due diligence and proof of concept prior to making any selection or purchase.
Who should download this IDC MarketScape excerpt?
CISOs, VP/Directors of IT Infrastructure, SecOps leaders, and vendor evaluation teams responsible for cyber-recovery platform selection. The report provides independent analyst guidance for benchmarking strategy, comparing vendors, and building a business case for investment.
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