Laptops and Desktops remain a data protection challenge for enterprises large and small because the solutions available from legacy backup applications remain weak, due to the fact they’re tied to legacy backup practices. Druva provides end point data protection that has broken the legacy storage model by using an object based storage architecture as the foundation of its data protection solution.

Druva's object storage foundation provides not only near limitless scaling of disk based data protection, it also provides more efficient capacity utilization. Druva is unique in that it includes source side duplication for end point backup. This capability pays off big in large corporate deployments, since each successive backup becomes faster. Alternative approaches that deduplicate at the target, while they may have the net storage efficiency of Druva, require users to endure an initial full backup transferred across limited bandwidth.

Not every company wants to or has the ability to store backups of their endpoints in house and many are looking to cloud providers as a storage solution. Using the cloud also enables the organization to provide backup from anywhere without using a VPN. Druva's cloud backup option for end point data protection has proven to be very popular among users.

This cloud option now provides backup administrators the ability to provision cloud resources as they see fit. For example cloud storage can be deployed in a global fashion and laptop or desktop users can be routed to a cloud storage pod that’s geographically close to them. In addition, the administrator can make sure that data that can’t leave country boundaries is only replicated within those countries.

Druva has also added security features to their offerings like encrypted backup, locked access and remote wipe. And, they have created a shared key capability that assures only your organization can recover data,while allowing Druva to help with restore or classification requests, if desired.

Storage Swiss Take

Druva continues to march onward offering enterprise capabilities and scale while providing simplicity in their consumer offerings. They are also winning large accounts with 10,000+ end points being protected. Organizations that are looking to improve their ability to backup and recover data stored in endpoint devices should give Druva serious consideration.