Druva Extends Data Protection Capabilities for AWS Enterprise Workloads

Druva, Inc. announced extended data protection capabilities for AWS enterprise workloads, including backup and data management for Amazon S3, long-term archiving for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots and global policies for AWS accounts.

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With these additions, customers can more effectively manage some of today’s workloads, enable consistent storage policies across the platform and lower costs with the firm’s automated storage tiering capabilities.

As enterprises continue to expand their footprint on AWS, inputting amounts of data and increasingly leveraging its extensive portfolio of services, teams are tasked with protecting and analyzing this ever-growing environment. Given this influx of data now requiring oversight, a centralized approach can help teams properly manage their data, meet compliance requirements, and optimize storage.

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Customers can reduce risk, store data across Amazon S3 storage tiers, and increase visibility
with capabilities including:

Amazon S3 backup: Access a consumer-friendly interface to navigate snapshots of Amazon S3 buckets and set granular version control with backup policies for S3 buckets across regions and accounts within AWS with include/exclude rule-based selections of S3 buckets and S3 Objects.
Amazon EBS archival: Transition Amazon EBS snapshots to Amazon S3 storage classes like Amazon S3 Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive, reducing costs by up to 50X^(*) while retaining availability for BC, compliance, customer contracts and e-Discovery.
Global data management policies: Automated onboarding allows users to onboard and set policies across one or hundreds of accounts from the user’s AWS estate with the same level of effort, including AWS GovCloud accounts. Additionally, global policies bring the ability to not only list backup policies across accounts, but apply those policies to full accounts. With new policy selectors, users can include or exclude instances into backup policies by ID, Tag, AWS Account, AWS Organization, VPC, Subnet or Region, unifying policies across accounts. This reduces the effort required by large enterprises to ensure consistent data protection across their entire AWS estate.

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“AWS’s ease-of-use, competitive cost, and vast array of services have enabled enterprises to build today’s applications, scaling on demand and innovating for the future,” said Mike Palmer, chief product officer, Druva. “Given how easy it is to set up environments in AWS, enterprises look to further reduce business risk, increase operational efficiency, and retain visibility of all their data. As one of the only data protection solutions built entirely on AWS, and given our intimate knowledge of it, Druva is the ideal solution to help leverage AWS to the fullest and drive our customers’ business forward.“

“Protecting production workloads and managing data can be complex,” said Steven Hill, senior analyst, 451 Research. “The global, policy-based data protection and life-cycle automation Druva is adding to its data protection service provides the tools needed to effectively manage that complexity. In addition, Druva leverages the flexible and resilient Amazon S3 storage, tiering data for cost efficient long-term archiving and governance of AWS EBS volume snapshots.“

Availability:

The firm’s new capabilities are expected to be available by 1Q20 within the company’s CloudRanger and available to select customers via early access.
CloudRanger is available on the AWS Marketplace.

^(*) Based on the Amazon EBS snapshots storage pricing $0.05/GB/month of data stored ((US East Ohio) Pricing; to the Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive Storage pricing $0.00099/GB (US East Ohio Pricing.

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