Druva With Cloud-Based Laptop Backup Software

Druva Software announced inSync Cloud, a cloud-based, automated, enterprise backup solution to offer instant recovery of data from multiple, near-continuous restore points.  

As an on-demand offering, inSync Cloud can be deployed rapidly, and enterprises and their users benefit from patented application-aware deduplication and integral WAN optimization that result in 90-percent savings in bandwidth and storage. The application also guarantees 100-percent accuracy in deduplication for backups and restores, not only on individual laptops but on multiple copies of the same data block that may exist on multiple laptops.
 
Druva InSync Cloud is designed for enterprises that value laptop data protection but need to avoid the complexity and management challenges of conventional data-protection solutions. The application can be deployed for individual users or groups in minutes and once deployed, runs as a background process; it requires no user involvement. Backups are instantaneous and have no affect on laptop performance.

With the announcement of InSync Cloud, Druva overcomes a challenge, cited by 73 percent of laptop users across industries, that ‘intrusive backups’ create a major obstacle to personal productivity. The solution also guarantees service-level agreements for availability and durability of backed-up data. The data from any point in the past can be accessed instantaneously over the Internet for a laptop PC, smartphone or tablet and restored in minutes.
 
"The biggest issues plaguing endpoint data backup is that the responsibility to complete backups can fall on the endpoint user, solutions don’t take remote workers into consideration, and the process can be disruptive to endpoint user productivity," said Lauren Whitehouse, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "The Druva inSync Cloud SaaS offering addresses these issues by providing policy control to administrators and scheduling control to endpoint users, and optimizing WAN transfer with application-aware deduplication. Druva further differentiates its solution with SLA guarantees for performance and data availability."
 
Druva’s patented deduplication technology reduces bandwidth and storage requirements by backing up only unique copies of a file. "That’s important because bandwidth is the biggest bottleneck for cloud-based backups," said Jaspreet Singh, CEO of Druva. "A company should not be penalized for its storage growth.  We’re taking aim at out-of-control bandwidth requirements and storage costs with Druva InSync Cloud."
 
Druva InSync Cloud also addresses data security. Customer data is stored on Amazon Web Services’ cloud platform, a secure, reliable and robust global technology infrastructure serving hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide. In addition, Druva’s military-grade 256-bit SSL network encryption secures data in flight, and 256-bit AES encryption secures data at rest on the storage server. Furthermore, backups are client-triggered, meaning that the backup server accepts only inbound backup or restore requests and never sends outbound requests.
 
As with Druva’s inSync Enterprise Laptop backup and restore offering, inSync Cloud delivers on Druva’s ‘unbreakable backup’ pledge, which ensures that backups will succeed even over the weakest WAN links, regardless of real-world network limitations. As IT departments can now deliver complete, scalable cloud-based endpoint protection, they can prevent loss of intellectual property in files that have been created on individual laptops and make those files available throughout the enterprise.
 
Pricing and Availability
Druva inSync Cloud is available. Pricing starts at $100 per 100GB of deduplicated data per month.