Druva,
Inc.
announced enhancements to its Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) offering
for enterprise workloads. As the only SaaS-based disaster recovery solution
built on AWS, Druva can now help improve business continuity with features
including automated runbook execution, tighter AWS integration, and simplified
orchestration and testing - all while reducing costs by up to 60 percent.
Customers will also benefit from seamless one-click failover to the cloud for
on-premises workloads, and for the first time, recovery for cloud workloads
with cross-region/account support.
The Data Protection-as-a-Service
(DPaaS) market is forecast to grow at a 16.2 percent CAGR and reach $10.2
billion through 2022, according to IDC, as enterprises increasingly move away
from legacy systems that are expensive, complex and lack infrastructure
flexibility. While solutions are increasingly built for the public cloud, only
Druva has developed an offering that can meet enterprise compliance needs at
scale with recovery time objectives (RTO) of minutes and recovery point
objectives (RPO) of an hour across any AWS Region. Enterprises no longer need
to rely on hardware, multi-vendor approaches or managed disaster recovery sites
to ensure successful and timely restores.
"Enterprises of all sizes are
looking for a new disaster recovery solution that can replace the convoluted,
cost prohibitive model of the last three decades," said Mike Palmer, CPO,
Druva. "With Druva's new offerings, IT teams now have an all-in-one solution
that can meet business demands and automate processes at a fraction of the
cost. Disaster recovery planning is a critical part of maintaining
uninterrupted operations and now there is no barrier to protecting your most
critical business data."
Leveraging the global reach of
cloud, Druva's DRaaS solution brings customers a number of new features,
including:
- Recovery automation: As applications become more intricate, the interdependency
become more complicated. Now with Druva, enterprises can automate runbook
execution and streamline processes for rapid recovery.
- Failback recovery: Druva's disaster recovery supports hybrid workload failback,
such as to VMware Cloud on AWS or on-premises data centers, to align with
enterprise compliance.
- Support for cloud workloads:Druva now offers the ability to capture
data within customers' AWS account and clone it across regions for testing and
compliance.
- Automated disaster recovery testing: Testing is a key (and often time
consuming) part of maintaining a disaster recovery solution. Now, enterprises
can automate the process, ensuring the team is prepared for a potential
disaster, while also meeting compliance and audit requirements.
- Replication and mobility:Users have the ability to replicate virtual machines, clone
full VPCs, and also move them cross-region for test and development, and
greater resiliency.
"It's clear that disaster
recovery solutions are becoming increasingly important to business operations
and the inherent benefits of cloud-based services makes it the de-facto choice
for future-proofing enterprise disaster recovery," said Phil Goodwin, Research
Director, IDC. "Solutions such as Druva's which leverage AWS' global reach,
instant scalability, and cost competitive offerings, will be compelling
solutions in a market that is increasingly looking for alternatives to
traditional on-premises solutions."
"As a key partner for
financial and investment firms, ensuring business continuity and minimizing the
impact of potential disasters is critical," said Eric Beville, systems
administrator, Synthesis Technologies. "Druva's VPC cloning ability is a game
changer for us, and will eliminate the extensive manual snapshot process we
previously required. Other features, like failback, are incredibly powerful
tools that will help our team manage a disaster recovery situation."
Additionally, last week, Druva
was recognized as the top business continuity/disaster recovery solution at the
2019 SC Awards, presented by SC Media.
Availability
Druva's new disaster
recovery capabilities will be generally available in Q2 2019 within Druva
Phoenix and Druva CloudRanger.