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Index › Vendors › HYCU R-Cloud · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

HYCU R-Cloud

4Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

2 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. HYCU R-Cloud was named 2 times in Backup and DR, where Veeam led with 18%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market40 of 121

under the label threshold

Enterprise28 of 99

under the label threshold

In backup and dr · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named HYCU R-Cloud for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Backup and disaster recovery	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	40 of 121	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Veeam at 18%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for HYCU R-Cloud yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated HYCU R-Cloud across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“(Bronze winner): Recognized for its cloud-focused data protection and ease of use.” Mistral Small · Backup and DR · comparative prompt · alternative

“(Bronze Winner 2024)” MiniMax M2.5 · Backup and DR · comparative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as HYCU R-Cloud, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and HYCU R-Cloud was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Commvault4 of 40Not in the top three

Veeam Data Platform3 of 43Not in the top three

Cohesity3 of 40Not in the top three

Rubrik3 of 40Not in the top three

Veritas Alta Data Protection3 of 40Not in the top three

Druva2 of 40Not in the top three

Zerto2 of 40Not in the top three

Veeam Data Platform 12.21 of 41Not in the top three

Acronis1 of 40Not in the top three

Azure Backup1 of 40Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named HYCU R-Cloud. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 4 of the 4 answers that named HYCU R-Cloud and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

solutionsreview.com4

techtarget.com4

tech-insider.org3

technologymatch.com3

c4cgroup.co.uk2

eon.io2

rubrik.com2

axcient.com1

checkthat.ai1

ciopages.com1

Twenty-three of the twenty-three domain citations in answers naming HYCU R-Cloud came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

solutionsreview.com/backup-disaster-recovery/whats-changed-2024-gartner-magic-quadrant-for4

techtarget.com/it-infrastructure/feature/The-best-enterprise-data-storage-products-of-20244

tech-insider.org/nl/veeam-vs-rubrik-vs-cohesity-vs-commvault-20263

techtarget.com/searchstorage/feature/The-best-enterprise-data-storage-products-of-20243

c4cgroup.co.uk/guides/veeam-vs-rubrik-cohesity-commvault2

eon.io/blog/enterprise-backup-solutions2

solutionsreview.com/backup-disaster-recovery/the-best-backup-and-disaster-recovery-compani2

technologymatch.com/blog/best-enterprise-backup-software-rpo-rto-comparison2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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