Every category where a model named Veeam Data Platform 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	15%	2 of 121	0%	13	accepted challenger

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	0	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	0	0	2
Kimi K2	2	1	0	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	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

Direct7 labels2

Paraphrase14 labels11

Comparative14 labels8not counted in share

Budget-constrained9 labels3

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative45 labels in all, every segment counted; 16 of the 24 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 Data Platform (The Overall Market Leader)... Veeam is the dominant player in the mid-market because of its unmatched flexibility” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Backup and DR · direct prompt · first choice

“The Best Overall for Hybrid Cloud Environments: Veeam Data Platform ... widely considered the gold standard for modern backup” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Backup and DR · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Often recognized as the number one solution globally, Veeam is the "safe default" choice for most organizations” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Backup and DR · comparative prompt · first choice

“I'd usually recommend Veeam Data Platform as the strongest all-around choice.” GPT-5.4 mini · Backup and DR · paraphrase prompt · first choice

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 Veeam Data Platform, over the 45 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Veeam Data Platform was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Acronis Cyber Protect23 of 458Compare →

Commvault22 of 451Not in the top three

Rubrik16 of 450Not in the top three

Cohesity12 of 450Not in the top three

Rubrik Security Cloud11 of 450Not in the top three

IDrive Business8 of 454Not in the top three

Datto SIRIS7 of 451Not in the top three

Backblaze Business Backup6 of 451Not in the top three

Cove Data Protection6 of 451Not in the top three

Azure Site Recovery6 of 450Not 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 Data Platform. 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 37 of the 45 answers that named Veeam Data Platform and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

eon.io23

solutionsreview.com21

veeam.comYour site19

expertinsights.com18

ninjaone.com16

technologymatch.com14

worldmetrics.org14

c4cgroup.co.uk11

tech-insider.org11

axcient.com10

138 of the 157 domain citations in answers naming Veeam Data Platform came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

solutionsreview.com/backup-disaster-recovery/whats-changed-2024-gartner-magic-quadrant-for17

eon.io/blog/enterprise-backup-solutions16

expertinsights.com/backup-and-recovery/top-disaster-recovery-dr-software-solutions12

c4cgroup.co.uk/guides/veeam-vs-rubrik-cohesity-commvault11

tech-insider.org/nl/veeam-vs-rubrik-vs-cohesity-vs-commvault-202611

axcient.com/blog/backup-and-disaster-recovery-solutions10

technologymatch.com/blog/best-enterprise-backup-software-rpo-rto-comparison10

hyperconvergence.com/best-backup-and-disaster-recovery-solutions-for-smbs9

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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