Druva Cloud Platform Brings DR and Governance Capabilities to AWS Workloads

Druva, Inc. announced updates to its CloudRanger, company’s data protection solution for AWS workloads, including automated DR, legal-hold, and file level search.

Part of Druva Cloud Platform, these enhancements enable businesses utilizing AWS cloud environments to protect against unplanned events, better manage the lifecycle of their data and respond to compliance and legal data inquiries.

As enterprises continue to migrate application workloads to the cloud, ensuring DR and managing underlying data governance has become a critical need. Traditional on-premises systems have become too costly and complex, and fall short in addressing cloud architectures.

Emerging cloud-based systems, however, are not immune to system corruption, user errors, outages or malicious attacks and can be difficult to manage for compliance or legal needs given the distributed nature. With CloudRanger, enterprises are able to ensure BC, minimize production environment impact and meet increasing compliance regulations across their AWS workloads through a single solution.

“The needs of today’s businesses, increasingly taking place in the cloud, have surpassed the capabilities of yesterday’s on-premises systems,” said David Gildea, VP of product and GM, Druva CloudRanger. “With growing data footprints, Druva CloudRanger automated DR, governance, and deep level searches bring AWS users powerful control and manageability in a scalable, reliable SaaS solution. These enhancements will ensure enterprises achieve both BC and reduce the risks of their data in the cloud.“

With these new features, Druva continues to deliver on its promise of providing technology to manage data in the cloud and a cloud-native solution that provides customers greater visibility and manageability over their data, eliminating the need to invest in additional hardware or software.

• Automated DR: The traditional model of DR includes a high level of systems complexity, administration, testing, and cost to ensure continuity for business-critical applications. Firm’s enhanced DR enables organizations to replicate and clone a whole AWS account and associated environments across regions, create recovery plans and execute testing in just a few steps. This ensures minimal production environment impact and the ability to meet operational demands.
• File Search: Identifying a set of files across 100s of terabytes of data is a daunting challenge that has become increasingly more important for retention, recovery and compliance reasons. However, current methods that may have worked well on-premises have access and visibility limitations within the cloud. CloudRanger file search brings the ability to search across all AWS accounts and snapshots, and understand where files exist within those backups as well as the specific regions. This is especially useful in the case of compliance and enforcing retention and data policies.
• Data Governance: Combining CloudRanger file search and legal hold capabilities, organizations are able to automate and simplify the identification, collection and preservation of targeted data across their cloud workloads – maintaining integrity and chain of custody throughout the legal process and minimizing the need for massive and costly data transfers. Organizations with specific compliance requirements, such as GDPR, can search for particular files across thousands of snapshots simultaneously, saving vast amounts of time and then take appropriate actions.

“We strategically select vendors based on their ability to exceed market expectations and customer satisfaction, which is why we’re delighted to partner with Druva CloudRanger,” said Lewis Franklin, cloud engineer, Zebra Technologies. “With automated DR we can now ensure continuity and resolve production issues by cloning an entire VPC and recreating it as a development environment where developers can address issues without impacting production workloads. This in an invaluable ability and ensures we can run our business with minimal disturbances.“

CloudRanger automated DR is available worldwide to all CloudRanger customers. CloudRanger legal hold and file level search are currently available to early access customers and will be available in 1Q19.