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1 category · Named, not ranked

Veeam Backup & Replication

15Judge labels

5First choices

3Negative labels

8 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

6 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Veeam Backup & Replication was named 6 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 business25 of 110

under the label threshold

Mid-market6 of 121

under the label threshold

Enterprise5 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 Veeam Backup & Replication 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	5%	6 of 121	17%	6	under 10 labels · led by Veeam at 18%

Movement

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

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

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

Direct6 labels4

Paraphrase1 label1

Comparative5 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative15 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 6 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.

“Veeam | You want full control, a software‑based model, and a clear upgrade path to cloud‑native backup.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Backup and DR · direct prompt · first choice

“Veeam is widely considered the gold standard for Virtualized and Cloud environments.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Backup and DR · direct prompt · first choice

“Veeam Backup & Replication, which delivers availability for all cloud, virtual, Kubernetes, and physical workloads” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Backup and DR · comparative prompt · alternative

“It is completely free for up to 10 workloads” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Backup and DR · budget 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.

“Unpatched or vulnerable enterprise tools like Veeam Backup & Replication: Multiple critical flaws ... Mitigate by applying patches immediately” Grok 4.1 Fast · Backup and DR · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Veeam Backup & Replication, over the 15 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Veeam Backup & Replication was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Datto6 of 150Not in the top three

Commvault5 of 150Not in the top three

Acronis Cyber Protect4 of 151Not in the top three

Cohesity4 of 150Not in the top three

Rubrik4 of 150Not in the top three

Veritas NetBackup4 of 150Not in the top three

Zerto4 of 150Not in the top three

Arcserve UDP3 of 151Not in the top three

Acronis3 of 150Not in the top three

Acronis Advanced Disaster Recovery2 of 151Not 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 Veeam Backup & Replication. 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 11 of the 15 answers that named Veeam Backup & Replication and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

solutionsreview.com5

expertinsights.com4

wifitalents.com4

controlmonkey.io3

eon.io3

ninjaone.com3

northflank.com3

techtarget.com3

worldmetrics.org3

acronis.com2

Thirty-three of the thirty-three domain citations in answers naming Veeam Backup & Replication came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

expertinsights.com/backup-and-recovery/top-disaster-recovery-dr-software-solutions4

northflank.com/blog/what-is-the-best-disaster-recovery-software3

solutionsreview.com/backup-disaster-recovery/the-best-backup-and-disaster-recovery-compani3

ais-now.com/blog/best-backup-and-disaster-recovery-tools-smbs-in-20262

consilien.com/news/best-cloud-backup-solutions-smb-20262

controlmonkey.io/resource/cloud-disaster-recovery-solutions2

cybersecuritydive.com/news/veeam-critical-cve-exploits-ransomware/7305702

cygnet.one/feeds/blog/disaster-recovery-plan-software2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Veeam Backup & Replication

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Veeam Backup & Replication; a claim can dispute any of them.

Veeam Backup & Replication (Community Edition) 1Veeam® Backup & Replication 1

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