Druva Delivers Data Protection for Oracle Databases

Druva, Inc. announced direct-to-cloud data protection for Oracle databases.

According to Gartner, 75% of all databases will be deployed or migrated to a cloud platform by 2022* and as organizations increasingly move legacy databases to the cloud.

Druva offers unified data protection for Oracle databases in hybrid (on-premises and cloud) environments which eliminates complex, multi-vendor infrastructure management while improving security, scalability and TCO.

Druva’s direct-to-cloud, unified data protection for Oracle databases in hybrid (on-premises and cloud) environments eliminates complex, multi-vendor infrastructure management

Oracle’s offerings continue to be a technology strategy for thousands of organizations. Therefore, as companies expand their cloud footprint, Oracle databases are increasingly hosted on AWS to improve scalability, security and availability. Until now, teams have relied on complicated, expensive and inefficient data protection architectures to protect their hybrid cloud environments. As organizations increase their Oracle footprint in the cloud, Druva’s support for Oracle offers customers an unified data protection alternative that delivers the cloud’s intended operational and economic benefits through deduplication, automated tiered storage for long-term retention and on-demand scaling.

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“Moving services to the cloud should simplify processes, not make them more convoluted and costly,” said Stephen Manley, CTO. “Solutions that add steps or create separate cloud environments are not designed for the cloud era. With central visibility across on-premises and the cloud, organizations using Druva can efficiently protect all their Oracle databases while being confident the data is secure, compliant and visible.“

As the first direct-to-cloud backup of Oracle databases with deduplication, encryption and long-term retention, Druva’s support is built with simplicity. Customers can deploy without proprietary infrastructure or storage, ensure compliance with extensive regional storage options for data residency, reduce cost for long-term retention and preserve backups with immutable storage.

Benefits include: 

• Visibility and control for both central IT and database administrators
• RMAN integrated direct-to-cloud data protection for databases running on-premises and in the cloud
• No intermediary staging location to store RMAN dumps, reducing overall cost and complexity
• Auto-discovery of Oracle database instances
• Role-based access control (RBAC)
• Fast cloning and granular recovery to meet the needs of both database administrators and dev/test teams
• Auto tiering to cold storage for long-term retention for lower TCO
• Simple, capacity-based licensing

Organizations have diverse data protection requirements for their Oracle databases, especially as they migrate to or are built natively in the cloud, Druva offers methods designed to fit the needs of all deployments. For database administrators that need a greater level of control, the firm offers an agentless method using RMAN to connect to an NFS backup store, in addition to the agent-driven centralized backups. The platform brings database administrators and IT teams improved agility with greater visibility and data control.

Oracle backups to the Druva cloud platform leverage built-in off-site protection, deduplication, RPOs of 15mn, and long-term retention, while deploying on-premises or in the cloud.

Customers pay for storage consumed in the Druva cloud, making it cost transparent and predictable. And for customers adopting Amazon RDS for Oracle, the vendor offers RDS support and also cross-region and cross-account snapshot support as well as support for DR plans.

Druva’s new direct-to-cloud method of data protection for Oracle is expected to be available in 1F21.

* Gartner, Market Share Analysis: Database Management Systems, Doc # G00717751. Published: August 2020.