Backup & Restore DRaaS Market
Backup and Restore DRaaS Market by Service Type (BaaS, Restore & Recovery, Continuous Data Protection, Snapshot Backup, Archival, Immutable Backup), Deployment Mode (Public & Private Cloud), Organization Size, Vertical, Region - Global Forecast to 2032
OVERVIEW
Source: Secondary Research, Interviews with Experts, MarketsandMarkets Analysis
The backup and restore DRaaS market is projected to expand from USD 5.54 billion in 2025 to USD 17.52 billion by 2032 at a CAGR of 17.9%. Growth is driven by rising data volumes that are forcing enterprises to strengthen protection for business-critical applications and customer information. Increasing cyber threats are pushing organizations to adopt immutable backup and rapid restoration capabilities. Expanding cloud adoption is increasing data sprawl, which is accelerating enterprise demand for centralized backup management and recovery assurance services.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
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By RegionAsia Pacific is projected to be the fastest-growing region in the backup & restore DRaaS market, projected at 18.9% CAGR.
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By Service TypeRansomware-resilient and immutable backup services is the fastest-growing service type, projected at 22.3% CAGR.
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By Deployment ModeThe private cloud is set to be the fastest-growing subsegment at a 15.1% CAGR.
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By Organization SizeSMEs are projected to form the fastest-growing organization size adopting backup & restore DRaaS solutions.
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By VerticalThe retail and consumer goods sector is the fastest-growing segment.
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Competitive Landscape - Key PlayersIBM, Microsoft, and AWS lead the backup & restore DRaaS market through global infrastructure scale, recovery automation depth, and enterprise trust.
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Competitive Landscape - StartupsDXC Technology and NTT Data are gaining traction by offering agile deployment, rapid onboarding, and cost-efficient managed recovery service models.
The backup and restore DRaaS market globally is being reshaped by expanding cloud workloads and rising enterprise dependence on digital business operations. Enterprises adopt managed backup services to protect business-critical data and reduce exposure to ransomware and accidental data loss incidents. Providers respond with immutable backups, automated policy management, and scalable cloud-based recovery platforms supporting distributed enterprise data environments.
TRENDS & DISRUPTIONS IMPACTING CUSTOMERS' CUSTOMERS
Enterprise data volumes are increasing across hybrid environments and cloud applications, which is raising exposure to recovery failures. Organizations are shifting backup strategies toward managed platforms that centralize control and reduce dependence on recovery processes. Security teams are prioritizing immutable backups to prevent tampering and ensure reliable recovery after ransomware or destructive cyber incidents. Providers are investing in automation and policy-driven recovery to shorten timelines and support consistent resilience.
Source: Secondary Research, Interviews with Experts, MarketsandMarkets Analysis
MARKET DYNAMICS
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Rising enterprise focus on protecting business-critical data against cyber incidents and accidental data loss
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Growing data volumes across cloud platforms applications and endpoints increasing pressure on backup infrastructure scalability
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Enterprise concerns over loss of control and security exposure when backup data is managed by third party providers
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Cost sensitivity related to long term data retention storage growth and egress charges across cloud based backup environments
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Increasing regulatory scrutiny driving demand for immutable backup retention and standardized audit ready reporting
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Expanding adoption of AI driven backup optimization recovery validation and anomaly detection across enterprise environments
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Complexity of maintaining consistent backup policies across hybrid multicloud SaaS and distributed edge environments
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Network bandwidth limitations impacting backup windows replication efficiency and restore performance at scale
Source: Secondary Research, Interviews with Experts, MarketsandMarkets Analysis
Driver: Rising enterprise focus on protecting business critical data
Rising dependence on digital systems is increasing the financial impact of data loss and service downtime. This exposure is accelerating demand for reliable backup architectures that support faster recovery timelines. As a result, adoption is shifting toward solutions that embed automation and policy-driven recovery capabilities.
Restraint: Enterprise concerns over third-party control of backup data
Concerns around external control of sensitive backup data are limiting the adoption of fully managed backup services. Regulatory exposure and data sovereignty risks increase hesitation around third-party access to recovery environments. These constraints slow decision cycles and restrict market expansion within highly regulated and risk-sensitive industries.
Opportunity: Increasing regulatory pressure driving immutable backups and audit readiness
Regulatory frameworks such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and financial supervisory requirements are increasing expectations for tamper-resistant data protection. These mandates are driving demand for immutable backups and verifiable recovery records. This shift is expanding spending on compliance-aligned backup architectures and audit-ready recovery platforms.
Challenge: Complexity of protecting hybrid multicloud and distributed workloads
Distributed operating models across cloud SaaS and edge environments complicate backup consistency and recovery execution. Infrastructure fragmentation increases recovery variability and raises operational costs for protection workflows. This complexity challenges vendors to deliver unified control and predictable performance at scale.
BACKUP & RESTORE DRAAS MARKET: COMMERCIAL USE CASES ACROSS INDUSTRIES
| COMPANY | USE CASE DESCRIPTION | BENEFITS |
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Migrated the previous XML-based databases for regulatory data collection into AWS using Amazon DocumentDB, enabling regulatory data to be stored natively in JSON format | Improved the ability to quickly and efficiently search and index large numbers of regulatory filings, thus providing a more streamlined and efficient architecture for developing regulatory data collection workflows and processes | Operational costs have been reduced by more than fifty percent on a month-over-month basis | The development cycle has also decreased by over fifty percent, allowing products to reach markets much quicker | The ability to collect and evaluate regulatory filings will allow us to offer enhanced data security, scalability, and reliability capabilities when processing and analyzing individual regulatory filings for compliance with relevant regulations |
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Modernized regulatory data collection by migrating legacy XML-based databases to Amazon DocumentDB on AWS | Enabled native JSON storage to improve query performance and indexing for large-scale regulatory filings | Simplified application architecture and reduced development effort across regulatory data workflows | Over 50% reduction in operational costs month over month | More than 50% reduction in development cycles, improving time to market | Enhanced data security, scalability, and reliability for collecting and analyzing millions of regulatory filings |
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Infrascale: A cooperative effort to establish Integrated Disaster Recovery and Backup Solutions for small- to medium-sized enterprise (SME) customers throughout the United Kingdom. Recovery Time Performance (RTP) efficiencies have been achieved through Centralized Recovery Management and increased RTPs | The partner organizations involved have enhanced their individual and collective process support for commercial environments with reduced complexity for managed service teams | The result of all programs and activities has resulted in Improvement of Recovery Readiness (IRR) through quicker Fail Over Times and increased confidence in all aspects of customer Service Level Agreements (SLAs) |
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MARKET ECOSYSTEM
The backup and restore DRaaS market ecosystem includes solution providers, platform vendors, and service partners, enabling scalable data protection architectures. These participants deliver secure backups, recovery automation, and compliance readiness across hybrid enterprise environments and global deployments.
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MARKET SEGMENTS
Source: Secondary Research, Interviews with Experts, MarketsandMarkets Analysis
Backup and Restore DRaaS Market, by Service Type
Enterprises are prioritizing ransomware-resilient and immutable backup services to ensure data integrity and guaranteed recovery after cyber incidents. This service type is estimated to be the largest as organizations seek assured recovery without negotiating with attackers or risking permanent data loss. Adoption is accelerating as immutable architectures align recovery assurance with cybersecurity and business continuity investment priorities.
Backup and Restore DRaaS Market, by Deployment Type
Public cloud deployment models are becoming dominant as organizations avoid capital-intensive secondary data center investments. Cloud-based backup services support faster provisioning and scalable recovery capacity aligned with changing protection requirements. This flexibility is driving broader adoption as recovery infrastructure scales in parallel with application and data growth.
Backup and Restore DRaaS Market, by Organization Size
Large organizations represent the majority of backup and restore adoption due to complex application estates and higher exposure to operational disruption. These environments require centralized governance, automated recovery testing, and predictable performance across business-critical workloads. Spending concentration remains highest within large organizations as recovery reliability directly impacts revenue continuity and regulatory compliance.
Backup and Restore DRaaS Market, by Vertical
The BFSI sector demonstrates the highest adoption due to real-time transaction processing, payment clearing, and core banking system dependencies. Recovery assurance is essential as outages impact settlement cycles, regulatory reporting obligations, and customer financial access. These factors are driving sustained investment in immutable backup architectures, continuous recovery testing, and audit-ready validation frameworks.
REGION
Asia Pacific to be the fastest-growing region in the global backup & restore DRaaS market during the forecast period
The backup and restore DRaaS market in Asia Pacific is expected to expand rapidly as cloud adoption accelerates across enterprises and digital native businesses. Data volumes are increasing as organizations modernize applications and migrate workloads across hybrid and distributed cloud environments. Investment is shifting toward scalable backup platforms that support cross-country recovery architectures and address data residency requirements across fragmented Asia Pacific regulatory and infrastructure environments.
BACKUP & RESTORE DRAAS MARKET: COMPANY EVALUATION MATRIX
The Company Evaluation Matrix places AWS in the 'Stars' quadrant because of its strong market presence and mature service portfolio. OpenText appears in the 'Emerging Leaders' quadrant as its capabilities and service reach continue to expand. Other vendors fall across Participants and Pervasive Players, reflecting differences in scale, innovation readiness, and outsourcing depth.
Source: Secondary Research, Interviews with Experts, MarketsandMarkets Analysis
KEY MARKET PLAYERS
- IBM (US)
- Microsoft (US)
- Cisco (US)
- Google (US)
- DXC Technology (US)
- Tata Consultancy Services (India)
- Acronis (Switzerland)
- Druva (US)
- Dell Technologies (US)
- Infrascale (US)
- Backblaze (US)
- Wasabi Technologies (US)
- OVHcloud (France)
- Hitachi Vantara (US)
- Fujitsu (Japan)
- HCLTech (India)
MARKET SCOPE
| REPORT METRIC | DETAILS |
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| Market Size, 2025 (Value) | USD 5.54 Billion |
| Market Forecast, 2032 (Value) | USD 17.52 Billion |
| Growth Rate | CAGR of 17.9% |
| Years Considered | 2020–2032 |
| Base Year | 2024 |
| Forecast Period | 2025–2032 |
| Units Considered | Value (USD Million/Billion) |
| Report Coverage | Revenue forecast, company ranking, competitive landscape, vendor positioning, segment-wise analysis, regional trends, technological developments, key commercial use cases, and growth factors |
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| Region Covered | North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa, Latin America |
WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU: BACKUP & RESTORE DRAAS MARKET REPORT CONTENT GUIDE
DELIVERED CUSTOMIZATIONS
We have successfully delivered the following deep-dive customizations:
| CLIENT REQUEST | CUSTOMIZATION DELIVERED | VALUE ADDS |
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| Global Enterprises (BFSI, Healthcare, Manufacturing) |
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Support cost efficient provider selection |
| Telecom Operators (Network Resilience and 5G Infrastructure) |
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Enable risk informed 5G resilience investments |
| Cloud and Data Center Providers (Hybrid and Multicloud Recovery) |
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Identify high growth backup and recovery segments |
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
- December 2025 : To strengthen the cyber resilience of enterprises across Asia Pacific, HPE and Chunghwa Telecom have created an International Disaster Recovery Centre in Taiwan. This will enable enterprises in highly regulated and data-intensive industries to achieve a Recovery Time Objective of Minutes and will facilitate cross-border disaster recovery.
- June 2025 : Harbor Solutions announced the creation of a joint venture with Rubrik that will allow Harbor Solutions to enter into the DRaaS market across Asia Pacific, beginning in Australia & New Zealand. The partnership came as a result of increased enterprise demand for validated cyber recovery and operational resilience services, combined with the increasing regulatory pressure within the marketplace.
- June 2025 : Cohesity and 11:11 Systems launched a cloud-based Clean Room Recovery service to strengthen cyber resilience and ransomware recovery capabilities for global enterprises. The service was expected to reduce recovery complexity and accelerate incident response for organizations lacking a dedicated air-gapped recovery infrastructure.
- April 2025 : Elastio partnered with JetSweep in the DRaaS market to add ransomware protection & recovery assurance within managed disaster recovery environments. By doing so, the two companies anticipate that their relationship will foster greater trust in backup integrity and reduce operational risk when a customer experiences cyber recovery and rapid failover events.
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Methodology
This research study involved extensive secondary sources, directories, and paid databases to identify and collect information useful for this technical, market-oriented, and commercial study of the Backup and Restore DRaaS Market. In-depth interviews were conducted with various primary respondents, including key industry participants, subject matter experts, C-level executives of key market players, and industry consultants, to obtain and verify critical qualitative and quantitative information and assess the market prospects. The following figure highlights the market research methodology in developing this report on the Backup and Restore DRaaS Market.
Secondary Research
The market size of companies offering DRaaS was based on the secondary data available through paid and unpaid sources and by analyzing the product portfolios of major companies in the ecosystem and rating the companies based on their product capabilities and business strategies. In the secondary research process, various sources were referred to for identifying and collecting information for the study. The secondary sources included annual reports, press releases, investor presentations of companies, product data sheets, white papers, journals, certified publications, articles from recognized authors, government websites, directories, and databases.
Secondary research was mainly used to obtain key information about the industry’s supply chain, the total pool of key players, market classification and segmentation according to industry trends to the bottom-most level, regional markets, and key developments from both market- and technology-oriented perspectives, all of which were further validated by primary sources.
Primary Research
In the primary research process, various primary sources from both the supply and demand sides were interviewed to obtain qualitative and quantitative information on the market. The primary sources from the supply side included various industry experts, including Chief Experience Officers (CXOs); Vice Presidents (VPs); directors from business development, marketing, and product development/innovation teams; and related key executives from DRaaS vendors, industry associations, independent consultants, and key opinion leaders.
Primary interviews were conducted to gather insights, such as market statistics, the latest trends disrupting the market, new use cases implemented, data on revenue collected from products and services, market breakups, market size estimations, market forecasts, and data triangulation. Primary research also helped in understanding various trends related to technology, service type, deployment, and region. Stakeholders from the demand side, such as Chief Information Officers (CIOs), Chief Technology Officers (CTOs), Chief Security Officers (CSOs), the installation teams of governments/end users using DRaaS, and digital initiatives project teams, were interviewed to understand the buyer’s perspective on suppliers, products, service providers, and their current use of solutions, which would affect the overall Backup and Restore DRaaS Market.
Market Size Estimation
Both top-down and bottom-up approaches were used to estimate and forecast the Backup and Restore DRaaS Market and other dependent submarkets. The bottom-up procedure was deployed to arrive at the overall market size using the revenues and offerings of the key companies in the market. With data triangulation methods and validation through primary interviews, this study determined and confirmed the exact value of the overall parent market size. The overall market size was then used in the top-down procedure to estimate the size of other individual markets via percentage splits of the market segments.
Key players in the market were identified through secondary research, and their revenue contributions in respective countries were determined through primary and secondary research.
This entire procedure included the study of the annual and financial reports of top market players and extensive interviews for key insights from industry leaders, such as Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), VPs, directors, and marketing executives.
Data Triangulation
After arriving at the overall market size, the market was split into several segments and subsegments—using the market size estimation processes as explained above. Where applicable, data triangulation and market breakdown procedures were employed to complete the overall market engineering process and determine each market segment's and subsegment's exact statistics. The data was triangulated by studying various factors and trends from government agencies’ demand and supply sides.
Market Definition
DRaaS refers to a cloud model that enables replicating enterprise data and applications on a third-party virtual or cloud environment to ensure business continuity during artificial or natural disasters. It is mainly facilitated by System Integrators (SIs) and Managed Service Providers (MSPs). DRaaS is based on three crucial aspects: disaster planning/management, business continuity, and backup.
Key Stakeholders
- Cloud service providers (CSPs)
- Colocation providers
- Technology service providers
- Data center managed service providers
- Government organizations
- Networking companies
- Consultants/consultancies/advisory firms
- Support and maintenance service providers
- Telecom service providers
- Information Technology (IT) infrastructure providers
- System Integrators (SIs)
- Regional associations
- Independent software vendors
- Value-added resellers and distributors
Report Objectives
- To describe and forecast the global Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) market based on service types, deployment modes, organization size, verticals, and regions
- To forecast the market size of the five major regional segments: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific (APAC), Middle East & Africa (MEA), and Latin America
- To strategically analyze the market subsegments with respect to individual growth trends, prospects, and contributions to the total market
- To provide detailed information related to the major factors influencing the growth of the market (drivers, restraints, opportunities, and challenges)
- To strategically analyze macro and micro markets with respect to growth trends, prospects, and their contributions to the overall market
- To analyze industry trends, patents & innovations, and pricing data related to the Backup and Restore DRaaS Market
- To analyze the impact of recession impact on service types, deployment modes, organization size, verticals, and regions across the globe
- To analyze the opportunities in the market for stakeholders and provide details of the competitive landscape for major players
- To profile key players in the market and comprehensively analyze their market share/ranking and core competencies
- To track and analyze competitive developments, such as mergers and acquisitions, new product developments, and partnerships and collaborations in the market
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