The DCIG 2015-16 Hybrid Cloud Backup Appliance Buyer’s Guide is designed to give organizations insight into the appliances that can enable them to incorporate cloud services into their backup and disaster recovery strategies. DCIG evaluated multiple products from 10 vendors, comparing their respective features in five general categories: Virtualization, Management, Software, Hardware and Support. The analysts calculated each appliance’s score in these categories and determined an overall rating of Best-In-Class, Recommended, Excellent, Good and Basic.