As of May 31, 2025, Rocket Servergraph officially reached End of Life (EOL) — meaning no new updates, no security patches, and no vendor support going forward.
In the months since that EOL date, the Bocada team has heard from former Servergraph customers who opted to either use Servergraph for as long as they could post-EOL or to build internal processes/tools for backup oversight. In every single one of these situations, the customer is facing a range of compliance risks and complications and is now urgently looking for future-proof alternatives.
For organizations still relying on Servergraph (or any legacy monitoring tool) for backup monitoring and reporting, using EOL software has real implications for risk, security, compliance, and business continuity. Read on for a reminder of what those very real implications are — and how to address them.
Why Unsupported Software Is Now a Critical Liability
Using software that is no longer supported by the vendor — especially in data protection and backup oversight functions — exposes organizations to multiple escalating risks:
🔐 Security Vulnerabilities
Once software reaches EOL, vendors stop releasing security patches. That means any newly discovered exploit can be used against that software indefinitely. Without vendor patches or mitigations, attackers often scan corporate environments specifically to find outdated, unpatched tools.
📉 Compliance Failures
Regulatory frameworks like HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, and other security standards increasingly require software to be supported and patched. Relying on EOL tools like Servergraph can lead to audit failures, compliance gaps, and even financial penalties if auditors determine that unsupported software contributed to a data loss or breach.
💡 Operational Instability
Without official support, organizations often create internal workarounds or hire external contractors to fix issues — a process that’s costly, brittle, and not sustainable. Moreover, EOL software often faces compatibility issues with modern infrastructure and cloud environments.
The Urgency for Servergraph Users: Decommission or Risk It
Servergraph’s EOL should be viewed not as an inconvenience but a trigger for modernization:
- You no longer receive critical security or compatibility updates.
- Any future integrations with newer backup platforms (e.g., cloud-native, SaaS backups, modern APIs) or even existing integrations with new versions of once-supported backup software will likely fail.
- Continued reliance means unintended technical debt, hidden security holes, and compliance blind spots.
Staying on an unsupported tool may feel cheaper in the short term, but the risks and long-term costs — including breach exposure and compliance failure — far outweigh potential savings.
Bocada: A Modern, Future-Proof Replacement for Obsolete Tools
For organizations transitioning off Servergraph — whether due to EOL and/or broader modernization cycles — Bocada has achieved recognition as a modern and future-proof alternative.
Vendor-Agnostic Monitoring
Bocada supports 50+ direct or API-based connectors to leading backup platforms — including modern and legacy systems — giving you a single pane of glass for automated monitoring, reporting, and compliance.
This is critical for enterprises that have moved beyond older tools and now rely on hybrid environments with:
- On-prem and virtualized systems
- Multiple vendor toolchains
Bocada’s independence from any one particular backup product or vendor (e.g., IBM Spectrum Protect/TSM) insulates Bocada from the inevitable ebb and flow of the market, the likes of which were most likely responsible for Servergraph’s fate.
AI-Powered Capabilities: Innovating Beyond Traditional Monitoring
One of the largest differentiators between legacy tools like Servergraph and Bocada is artificial intelligence (AI) — not just automation.
With Bocada AI, organizations can now leverage:
🤖 AI-Powered Insights & Remediation
- Generative AI agent that delivers on-demand insights, audit-ready reports, and automated response actions. (See Demo Video) Learn more about how we deliver AI agent functionality, including our MCP server capabilities that enable enterprise customers to use their own AI infrastructure with Bocada’s AI agent.
- Contextual root cause analysis, letting teams automate responses to backup failures or anomalies with greatly reduced human effort.
📈 AI-Driven Anomaly Detection
Built-in AI models continuously detect unusual backup behaviors — such as unexpected job durations or byte-count irregularities — that could signal cyber-attacks (including ransomware) before they escalate. Learn more.
🗃 Predictive Storage Forecasting
Thanks to AI-powered storage forecasting, IT teams can now predict capacity needs and usage trends — avoiding outages or costly “last-minute” purchases — a feature unheard of in legacy tools like Servergraph. Learn more.
🎯 AI-Driven Compliance Reporting
Automated audit and compliance reports powered by AI make it easier to prove adherence to SLAs, regulatory mandates, and internal risk frameworks — all without manual intervention.
From Risk to Resilience: The Strategic Shift
Transitioning away from an EOL platform like Servergraph isn’t merely a technical upgrade — it’s strategic risk management.
Choosing a solution like Bocada with modern AI not only mitigates the risks of unsupported software but also transforms backup operations, yielding:
- Fewer manual processes
- Stronger compliance evidence
- Higher operational confidence
- Better readiness for audits and cyber threats
In environments where uptime, auditability, and data integrity are mission critical, this transformation is no longer optional — it’s mandatory.
Conclusion: The Future After EOL
With Servergraph now officially unsupported:
✅ Organizations must replace it to avoid mounting security, compliance, operational, and financial risks.
✅ Bocada stands out as a natural replacement path — not just technically, but strategically.
✅ AI features, automation, and predictive insights shift backup monitoring from a reactive task to a proactive capability.
Legacy tools had their moment. But in a world where cyber threats escalate daily and compliance demands tighten, the transition to future-ready platforms like Bocada isn’t just smart — it’s essential.