This leaves mostly Druva and Code42 as mainstream endpoint data protection options.
I guess with the likes of box onedrive and google drive the market may shift in the coming years...
I guess with the likes of box onedrive and google drive the market may shift in the coming years...
Context and disclosure: I run Jungle Disk [1] which is in the endpoint data protection (and storage) market for small business. We see a lot of CrashPlan (the Code42 product) and Backblaze [2]. The market has a ton of competitors [3] overall. Further up market we see Barracuda, Druva and CommVault (along with a whole other set of competition which integrates in with cloud providers.
[1] - https://www.jungledisk.com [2] - https://www.backblaze.com [3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_backup_se...
I hope it will be useful and interesting to point out that rsync.net, built on the ZFS filesystem, allows customers to create arbitrary snapshot schedules that are live and browseable.
Thousands of our customers do exactly what you just described when they set up day/week/month/quarter/year snapshots and then browse right in with any old SFTP client[1] and retrieve arbitrary files and directories (or VM images, whatever) as they existed on those dates.
These ZFS snapshots are immutable (read only) and immune to attacks like ransomware or a rogue employee.
This also doesn't address data stored on cloud storage, full endpoint unstructured user data backup is a messy one. While large companies use policy management to force data off of laptops or non-protected cloud systems almost every employee I interact with at normal small business has critical files on their PC.