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Your data doesn't sit in one place anymore, and neither does the risk. A single workload might depend on a database in AWS, an identity provider in Azure, files in Google Drive, and a legacy application still running in your own data center. Protecting all of it with a backup tool built for a single environment is how blind spots turn into outages, and how recovery stalls at the exact moment the business needs it most.
Hybrid and multi-cloud environments need purpose-built backup because most traditional tools were designed to protect a single environment. Few were built to apply consistent policy to public cloud providers and private infrastructure at the same time, which leaves administrators running separate tools with their own policies and restore workflows.
Tool compatibility is the first constraint. Every cloud provider has its own APIs and retention models, and backup tools built for one often treat the others as secondary. Coverage ends up uneven, and policy has to be maintained separately in each environment.
Then, there’s operational complexity. Running several backup tools at once makes it difficult to see how each is performing or to isolate the source of a failure when something breaks. Compliance reports get stitched together from multiple tools, and teams often work from different views of what's protected.
Recovery puts the most pressure on fragmented tooling. Bringing back an application with components in more than one cloud forces the team to run multiple restore jobs at once, each with different timing and different ways to fail. A platform built for multi-cloud management handles the full estate from one system, so recovery runs through a single workflow instead of several.
No platform is the best fit for every organization. Start by looking at your own environment before comparing features. Consider where your workloads run, how quickly they need to be recovered, and any compliance or data sovereignty requirements that affect where backup data can be stored. If your business already relies heavily on a particular cloud provider, evaluate how well each platform supports that ecosystem while leaving room to expand into a broader hybrid cloud strategy.
Finally, consider the total cost of ownership, not just licensing. Infrastructure, storage, ongoing administration, and recovery all affect what a platform costs over time. Use those factors as your baseline when comparing the platforms below instead of focusing on feature counts alone.
Enterprise backup platforms take different technical approaches to protecting workloads spread across on-premises infrastructure and public clouds. The six below cover the leading options, each with its own architecture, deployment model, and strengths.
Best for: Enterprises needing a single backup platform that scales across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with integrated cyber resilience.
Cohesity DataProtect brings backup, cyber resilience, and recovery together for workloads spread across data centers and public clouds. Its scale-out architecture and policy-based management make it well suited to enterprises that need one of the broader multi-cloud management platforms for protecting virtual, physical, SaaS, and cloud-native data without managing separate backup systems for each environment.
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Best for: Organizations with existing Veeam deployments extending backup coverage into multiple public clouds while keeping a familiar management console.
Veeam Data Platform is a flexible option for organizations that already use Veeam Backup & Replication and want to extend protection across public clouds. It uses separate backup appliances for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, with management consolidated through the Veeam Backup & Replication console. This approach supports a wide range of environments, although it also introduces more components than a fully managed SaaS platform.
Best for: Security-focused enterprises prioritizing ransomware recovery and threat analytics alongside hybrid and multi-cloud backup.
Rubrik Security Cloud is a SaaS-managed platform built around backup and cyber recovery. It protects supported workloads across public clouds, on-premises infrastructure, and SaaS applications while adding threat analytics and recovery-point analysis. The platform is a strong fit for enterprises that place a high priority on ransomware recovery, although its security features may be more extensive than some organizations require.
Best for: Large enterprises with complex multi-workload environments needing broad coverage and flexible deployment options across self-managed and SaaS models.
Commvault Cloud is built for enterprises with a wide mix of applications, infrastructure, and storage requirements. It is available as customer-managed software or a SaaS service and can protect workloads across data centers, SaaS applications, AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. That breadth gives organizations considerable flexibility, but it can also make the platform more complex to deploy and evaluate than narrower cloud-backup services.
Best for: Organizations wanting SaaS-delivered multi-cloud backup without managing backup infrastructure, particularly those centered on AWS and Azure workloads.
Druva Data Security Cloud is a fully managed SaaS platform designed to reduce the infrastructure required for enterprise backup. Druva operates the control plane and backup storage while customers manage protection through a common console. Its native cloud coverage is strongest in AWS and Azure, making it a better fit for organizations centered on those platforms than for those seeking equally broad protection across Google Cloud services.
Start by matching each platform to your environment. Confirm that it supports your workloads, cloud providers, and recovery objectives without requiring separate tools for every location. A strong multi-cloud management approach should also preserve flexibility as your infrastructure changes. Ask where cloud backups are stored, whether they can be recovered in another cloud, and what proprietary formats, egress fees, or provider-specific restrictions could limit portability.
Then run a proof of concept across both on-premises and cloud infrastructure. Test everyday administration as well as file, application, and full-system recovery, using the same scenarios and datasets for every vendor. Compare the results with your recovery time and recovery point objectives, and evaluate whether the platform’s cloud backup and recovery solutions remain consistent across each environment you need to protect.
Cohesity gives you a single platform for protecting data across on-premises and cloud environments. You can manage backup policies and recovery without building a separate process for each platform your organization uses.
That becomes especially useful when applications depend on systems in more than one location. Explore Cohesity’s backup and recovery solutions to see how the platform supports hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
