2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Backup and Data Protection Platforms

HYCU® is named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Backup and Data Protection Platforms for the fourth consecutive year.

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HYCU named a Visionary

Explore your complimentary copy of the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant report for a comprehensive evaluation of the Backup and Data Protection Platforms market and discover why HYCU is again positioned as a Visionary.

We feel HYCU’s broad SaaS coverage, strong multi-cloud and Google Cloud protection, and flexible was responsible for this recognition. In addition, over the past year, HYCU has delivered several technology and partner advancements that we believe helped in HYCU being named a Visionary. These include:

  • Broad Cloud Protection Coverage: Today in AWS, HYCU offers one of the broadest coverage of services that can be backed up. These services include:
    • Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, AWS S3, AWS S3 Express Zone (only vendor to protect), AWS CloudFormation (only vendor to protect), AWS Lambda (only vendor to protect), AWS IAM (only vendor to protect), AWS KMS (only vendor to protect), AWS Parameter Store (only vendor to protect), AWS WAF (only vendor to protect), Amazon Route 53 (only vendor to protect), Amazon VPC (only vendor to protect), VMware Cloud on AWS
  • Comprehensive backup, recovery, and disaster recovery (DR). HYCU covers a broad catalog of SaaS cloud services and helps customers protect everything from build to run in a cloud-native development, deployment, and ongoing maintenance process. HYCU now supports Azure Blob Storage in the platform.
  • Advancements in Ransomware Protection: introduction of R-Shield cyber resilience and inline anomaly detection.
  • AI Infrastructure Protection: Support for AI native workloads like vector databases: PineCone & Redis, in addition to leading AI data sources and platforms like BigQuery.

Expanded Relationships with Key Partners like Dell: Added to Extended Technologies Complete Program along with addition to Dell price book, making HYCU available from thousands of Dell sellers and partners directly. Download the Full 2025 Gartner Report

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At HYCU, we're continuing to shape the future of data protection with R-Cloud, our award-winning SaaS and mult-icloud data protection platform, designed to secure, and recover your data across all environments - from critical SaaS applications to on-premises to multi-cloud. HYCU R-Cloud was designed to help transform data protection and ensure HYCU customers are prepared for both today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Backup and Data Protection Platforms, Michael Hoeck, Jason Donham, Rene Rodriguez, Rizvan Hussain, Sankalp Rastogi, 24 June 2025.
The name of the report was changed from Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Software in 2016 to Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions in 2017, to Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions in 2021, and to Magic Quadrant for Backup and Data Protection Platforms in 2025.
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