Buyers often start an appliance search with capacity, but capacity rarely determines whether a recovery succeeds. In 2026, the better first question is how fast and how reliably the unit restores under real conditions.
Size to Workloads
Throughput and recovery compute, matched to the workloads protected and their growth, decide whether restores meet the objective. Raw terabytes alone do not.
Recovery Is the Metric
Backups exist to be restored, so evaluate a data backup appliance on restore speed first. Instant recovery that returns workloads in minutes turns a day of downtime into a brief interruption.
Resilience Built In
Immutable repositories mean recovery points survive an attack. Because the 2026 threat model assumes attackers reach the backups first, hardened immutability is a requirement.
Prove It
Run a recovery test before standardizing. A unit strong in a trial earns commitment; one strong only on a spec sheet does not.
Recovery You Can Trust
Tested recovery is the only recovery worth buying.
