We’re proud to share Cove Data Protection™ has been named a Champion in the 2026 Omdia Global Managed Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) Leadership Matrix for the third consecutive year. We feel this recognition reflects our continued focus on delivering resilient, security-first data protection, supported by ongoing innovation including expanded anomaly detection capabilities and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS).
For an independent analyst firm to rank you among the top performers in a competitive market once is noteworthy. Three years in a row is a different kind of statement. It means the bar kept rising, and Cove Data Protection kept clearing it.
Omdia, one of the world’s leading technology research and analyst firms, publishes its Global Managed BDR Leadership Matrix annually to evaluate vendors delivering backup and disaster recovery technology. In 2026, N‑able secured its Champion status for the third consecutive year, placing it alongside only four other vendors in the top quadrant of a field that included 15 evaluated companies.
This isn’t a participation award. It’s a rigorous, multi-dimensional assessment, and earning it repeatedly signals something durable about how Cove is built, how it performs for partners, and where it’s headed.
The Omdia Global Managed BDR Leadership Matrix evaluates vendors across three primary inputs: an independent analyst assessment, ecosystem feedback from the partner community, and performance metrics including revenue growth and market share. Vendors are then scored on two axes, leadership and momentum, and placed into one of four quadrants: Champion, Contender, Scaler, or Foundation.
To earn Champion status, a vendor must demonstrate the highest levels of excellence in both channel and technology capability over the prior 12 months, as assessed by Omdia analysts and the partner community alike.
Placement is determined by:
Earning Champion status once reflects strong performance in a given year. Earning it three times in a row reflects something more important: consistency.
The managed BDR market is growing fast. Omdia estimates managed backup and disaster recovery services, including Backup as a Service (BaaS) and DRaaS, will reach approximately $38 billion in 2026, growing at more than 16%. as that market expands, the competitive field sharpens. New entrants have arrived. Established players acquire and extend. The vendors that hold their Champion position across multiple cycles are the ones whose technology, partner programs, and execution keep pace with where the market is actually going.
Cove Data Protection has done exactly that.
Since its first Champion recognition, Cove has evolved from a strong cloud-native backup platform into a full data resilience platform built for the threat reality MSPs and IT teams face today. Key milestones driving this recognition include:
Third-party recognition carries weight. Customer outcomes carry more.
The MSPs and IT teams running Cove in production, across real incidents, under real pressure, are the most credible validators of what the platform delivers.
“Two thumbs up on peace of mind. We had a ransomware attack recently and it was a simple recovery.” — Chris Soutar, Entré Computer Solutions
“Cove has saved us so many times.” — Art Ocain, Airiam
These aren’t controlled scenarios. They’re live ransomware events and real recovery moments, where the platform performed under the conditions that matter most.
“Data protection is a core part of cyber resilience, and Cove’s continued recognition as a Champion for three years running reflects the differentiators that set it apart: ease of use, operational efficiency, and the ability to scale with our customers’ businesses,” said Chris Groot, General Manager of Cove. “With DRaaS now integrated into Cove, we’re helping businesses reduce recovery complexity and deliver the always-on business resilience their customers increasingly expect.”
This recognition follows N‑able’s third consecutive Champion placement in the Omdia RMM and PSA Leadership Matrix earlier in 2026, reinforcing the company’s broader position as a leading platform for businesses building security, efficiency, and resilience into their service stacks.
For MSPs and IT teams evaluating backup and disaster recovery solutions, independent analyst recognition removes a significant layer of uncertainty from the decision.
Here’s what that recognition translates to in practice:
The 2026 Omdia recognition reflects where Cove is. The product roadmap reflects where it’s going.
With DRaaS now integrated into the platform, businesses can offer enterprise-grade disaster recovery as a co-managed service, without building DR infrastructure, hiring DR specialists, or absorbing unpredictable hyperscaler costs. Flat per-device pricing makes it straightforward to package and resell.
Backup as a category is evolving. The shift from business continuity to full cyber resilience, from fast recovery to forensically sound cyber recovery, is where the market is heading. Cove is already there.
Cove Data Protection™ is a cloud-native, isolated-by-design backup and recovery platform built for MSPs and IT teams. It protects physical and virtual servers, workstations, and Microsoft 365 data, including Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams, from a single web-based dashboard. Core capabilities include immutable Fortified Copies, real-time anomaly detection, automated recovery testing with 99%+ boot verification success, and co-managed Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) with an isolated cyber cleanroom and approximately 15-minute failover. Cove is ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA compliant, with mandatory multi-factor authentication enforced platform-wide.
Omdia is a leading technology research and analysis firm, part of Informa TechTarget. The Omdia Global Managed BDR Leadership Matrix evaluates vendors across analyst assessment, ecosystem partner feedback, and performance metrics to identify those delivering the highest levels of excellence in backup and disaster recovery for the MSP market. The Leadership Matrix methodology was originally developed by Canalys and is now fully integrated into Omdia.
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