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Druva Unveils Industry¹s First Converged Cloud Solution for Backup, Archival and Disaster Recovery
February 2016 by Marc Jacob
Druva announced new Disaster Recovery
(DR) functionality to extend its converged cloud-based data protection
solution for enterprise infrastructure, Druva Phoenix. Introduced a year ago, Phoenix was the
first to provide backup and archival of both physical and virtual server
environments direct to cloud. With today¹s announcement, Druva adds new DR
functionality, creating a single platform supporting multiple, often
disparate data protection capabilities. The first-of-its-kind, integrated
public cloud offering eliminates software, expensive hardware, tapes and
process complexity while saving enterprises anywhere from one-third to
one-fifth of their total operating costs. Druva Phoenix is built on Amazon
Web Services (AWS) and leverages the public cloud¹s elasticity, global
presence and security, meaning companies can store, protect and manage large
volumes of data simply, efficiently and effectively.
«The convergence of Œdata protection and Œcloud-services continues to make
increasing sense for organizations of all sizes, all of whom are looking for
better recovery-agility while reducing costs and complexity,» said Jason
Buffington, Principal Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. «Many IT
professionals are asking ŒWhy BaaS when you can DRaaS? as a growing
recognition that most businesses cannot afford the downtime of waiting for
data to be restored before the business processes can be resumed and
cloud-services can offer that agility. Druva continues to be an innovation
leader in cloud-based data protection, so their broadening approach to
cloud-centric Backup, Archive and Disaster Recovery within a single
framework is a model that many should look earnestly at.»
Phoenix¹s new DR capability enables organizations to continuously back up
their VMware environments, and automatically recover and spin up their
virtual machines in the AWS public cloud when disaster strikes, ensuring
business continuity and eliminating the need for additional dedicated
on-premise software, storage or hardware, significantly reducing cost and
improving agility. With its advanced configuration settings, Phoenix
provides the setup of detailed polices to automate network and security
failover to a DR environment, significantly reducing downtime.
Additionally, administrators can automatically spin up multiple copies of
virtual machines across geographies and accounts for test and dev
automation.
Druva Phoenix unifies hot, warm and cold backup and archiving processes,
performing backups and restores 20 times faster than competitive solutions
to ensure companies meet their recovery objectives. Druva¹s cloud
architecture creates a single converged platform that scales to support
multiple workloads, all while natively using AWS storage technologies.
Since only a single copy of data is stored, the risk and cost associated
with maintaining multiple copies is eliminated.
In addition to the new DR capabilities, Phoenix also provides:
· Unified Backup & Recovery for Physical and Virtual Environments -
Removes the need for costly multi-vendor approaches and provides
ever-incremental backups for greater storage flexibility and recovery.
· Seamless Archival Automates storage management and provides
infinite retention ensuring data can be held and securely stored for
decades.
· Test & Dev - Boots a copy of a virtual image in the cloud, allowing
companies to create a replica of the production environment. Tests and
validation can be run against a copy of the production data.
· Integrated Analytics Converging multiple services provides
administrators unified visibility to data and usage patterns.
In terms of cost, enterprises derive bottom-line benefits from the public
cloud ³pay as you play² pricing model and converged cloud-first approach.
Companies save on administration, licensing and maintenance costs, as cloud
removes the need for additional software, hardware, tapes, multiple vendors,
gateways and more.
Druva Phoenix backup and archival is available today. Integrated disaster
recovery is currently in limited availability with GA in 60 days at
additional charge.
