The Forrester Wave™ Data Resilience Solutions, Q4 2024
Commvault Named a Leader in Data Resilience
When your data goes down, resilience is everything. Your ability to recover quickly – and keep your business running – comes down to the solution you choose.
This report from Forrester shows, in our opinion, which vendors actually deliver when it counts – and why Commvault stands out where it matters most.
- Highest score in “Current Offering” category among all 9 vendors evaluated
- Highest score possible in 15 criteria, including HyperScale Cloud/SaaS and Protection for generative AI models/data
- Recognized for the most comprehensive supported workload list in the evaluation
- Cited for superior product reliability by independent customer references
Inside the Report
What the Forrester Wave reveals about Data Resilience
Forrester evaluated nine of the most significant data resilience vendors on current offering strength, strategy, and customer feedback. Here’s what the research uncovers.
How Vendors Stack Up
An independent, side-by-side evaluation of the nine top data resilience vendors — scored on criteria that matter most to enterprise IT and security buyers.
What Makes a Leader
The criteria Forrester used to evaluate Leaders, Strong Performers, and Contenders
Cloud and SaaS Readiness
How vendors scored on protecting modern cloud-native and SaaS workloads — including hyperscale cloud/IaaS and protection for generative AI models/data.
Cyber Recovery Capabilities
Forrester’s assessment of backup integrity, vaults, and air gap, and recovery-to-alternate-infrastructure — the pillars of credible cyber resilience.
Customer Reference Feedback
What real enterprise customers said about product reliability and breadth of workload coverage— unfiltered input captured by Forrester’s independent reference process.
Key Insights
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Criteria with highest possible score
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Vendors evaluated by Forrester
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Commvault received the highest score possible in 15 criteria
Who should read this report
Enterprise IT and Security Leaders
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Report findings
How does Commvault score in the Forrester Wave for Data Resilience?
Challenge
Enterprise IT environments have grown too complex for point solutions. Organizations need a platform that covers on-premises, hybrid cloud, SaaS, and generative AI data in a unified way — with recovery capabilities that hold up under real attack conditions.
Approach
Forrester evaluated nine providers, including Commvault Cloud, powered by Metallic AI, across 38 criteria grouped by current offering and strategy. The platform’s capabilities include Threatwise (from TrapX acquisition) for deception-based threat detection and Cloud Rewind (from Appranix acquisition) for cloud application recovery.
Insight
Commvault received the highest score in the current offering category, with the highest possible marks in the criteria of hyperscale cloud/IaaS, regulatory and compliance support features, support for storage targets, protection for generative AI/models/data, and recovery to alternate infrastructure.
Meet the Report Author
Brent Ellis | Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Brent Ellis leads Forrester’s research on technology resilience, storage, and backup — covering ransomware protection, cloud-native resilience, and disaster recovery strategy. He advises technology leaders on accelerating high-performance IT with pragmatic, business-aligned approaches. His guidance has been cited in CIO Dive, TechTarget, CIO.com, and StateTech Magazine.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Forrester Wave for Data Resilience?
The Forrester Wave™: Data Resilience Solutions is an independent evaluation by Forrester Research that scores and ranks vendors on their data resilience current offering, strategy, and customer feedback — helping enterprise buyers make informed purchase decisions.
What is data resilience?
Commvault defines data resilience as the ability of an organization to protect, recover, and continue operating its data and systems following a cyberattack, infrastructure failure, or disaster — encompassing backup, recovery orchestration, and cyber resilience capabilities.
How does Commvault Cloud differ from traditional backup?
Commvault believes organizations need more than traditional backup to stay resilient. Commvault Cloud, powered by Metallic AI, reflects Commvault’s approach to cyber resilience—bringing together data protection, threat detection, and recovery orchestration in a single platform — extending beyond traditional backup to include deception-based threat detection, cloud application recovery, and AI workload protection.
Which workloads does Commvault support?
Commvault supports the broadest workload list of any vendor in the Forrester evaluation, including on-premises servers, hyperscale cloud and IaaS platforms, SaaS applications, virtual environments, and generative AI model data.
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