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Index › Vendors › Spanning · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Spanning

5Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

4 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

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Spanning was named 3 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 business64 of 110

under the label threshold

Mid-market120 of 121

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

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 Spanning 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%	120 of 121	67%	3	under 10 labels · led by Veeam at 18%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Spanning 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 Spanning across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“Multiple Reddit sysadmin reports advise steering clear of these for M365 backup specifically” Kimi K2 · Backup and DR · negative prompt · hard negative

“Kaseya-Owned Brands (Unitrends, Datto, Spanning)... Exercise extreme caution” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Backup and DR · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Spanning, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Spanning was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Veeam3 of 51Not in the top three

IDrive Business2 of 51Not in the top three

Acronis2 of 50Not in the top three

Acronis Cyber Protect2 of 50Not in the top three

Cohesity2 of 50Not in the top three

Commvault2 of 50Not in the top three

Rubrik2 of 50Not in the top three

Backblaze1 of 51Not in the top three

Synology NAS + Active Backup1 of 51Not in the top three

Arcserve / StorageCraft1 of 50Not 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 Spanning. 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 3 of the 5 answers that named Spanning and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

expertinsights.com2

axcient.com1

blog.quest.com1

checkthat.ai1

core6.com1

costbench.com1

csoonline.com1

cyberdefensemagazine.com1

dataversity.net1

dcgla.com1

Eleven of the eleven domain citations in answers naming Spanning came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

expertinsights.com/backup-and-recovery/the-top-business-continuity-and-disaster-recovery-s2

axcient.com/blog/backup-and-disaster-recovery-solutions1

blog.quest.com/how-to-secure-data-backups-from-the-most-common-attacks1

checkthat.ai/answers/what-are-the-best-disaster-recovery-solutions1

core6.com/business-category/why-dr-solutions-fail1

costbench.com/software/backup-recovery/compare-all1

csoonline.com/article/562185/6-reasons-why-it-recoveries-fail.html1

cyberdefensemagazine.com/breaking-point-storage-backup-systems1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Spanning's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Spanning, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at spanning.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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