Monthly Archives: March 2009

Druvaa inSync v3 Released with 25% Introductory Discount

Published March 11, 2009 | by Jaspreet | in Druva inSync
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March 11, 2009
Within 2 weeks of announcing the beta, Druvaa announced the general availability of long awaited inSync enterprise laptop backup v3 on Windows platform. The new release adds features like search, bare-metal restore and performance improvements.

Druvaa is one of the fastest growing enterprises in storage and data backup domain. The flagship product Druvaa inSync is fully automated laptop backup software which protects corporate data for office and remote users. It features simple backup, point-in-time restores, and patent-pending deduplication technology to make backups much faster.

The new v3 release includes the following features -

  1. Full PC Backup (with data deduplication)
  2. Bare Metal Restore
  3. Search functionality in restore
  4. Performance improvements for large files (e.g. Outlook PST)
  5. Usability Improvements

Find out more about new release – http://www.druvaa.com/insync/laptop-backup
Download a Free 30 days evaluation copy – http://www.druvaa.com/download/insync/

Over 80% of corporate data is duplicated across users. Druvaa inSync uses data deduplication to save “only a single copy” of content (emails/docs) duplicated across users. This delivers 10X faster backup with 90% reduction in bandwidth and storage.

The product uses Continuous Data Protection to create near-infinite restore points. On restore the user sees a timeline view of data and can restore from any point in the past.

Key Product highlights includes -

  1. Data Deduplication – Saves 90% backup time, bandwidth and storage.
  2. Continuous Data Protection – Timeline based, from the past restore
  3. Backup for Remote Users – WAN Optimized, faster backups over VPN/WAN
  4. Security – 256 bit SSL and 256 bit AES encryption
  5. On-demand Restore – GUI and browser based restores from any point in the past
  6. Advanced Reporting – Six different reporting options for flexible & detailed reporting

Product Page – http://www.druvaa.com/insync/laptop-backup

Save 25% on new Purchase until March 31st 2009
Druvaa also announced an introductory 25% discount on the purchase of new v3 release. To find out more about the pricing and new discount, please visit – http://www.druvaa.com/insync/buy

About Druvaa
Founded in 2007, Druvaa Software is a leading provider of Continuous Data Protection and Disaster Recovery solutions. Since inception Druvaa has released two award wining products products – Druvaa inSync and Druvaa Phoenix. Druvaa is privately held and backed by Indian Angel Network (IAN) and Accord International (HK).

Corporate Website – http://www.druvaa.com/

Druvaa inSync v3.0 Nears Completion

Published March 7, 2009 | by Jaspreet | in Druva inSync
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Finishing Line

As inSync 3.0 release nears completion and the action moves from development to release engineering, I get some time to reflect on how inSync has shaped up.

(Please let us know if you have any feedback for beta.)

Some factors proved very crucial in the development process -
Usability First
inSync team always kept usability ahead of everything else. Usability ensured that inSync features can be easily evaluated by prospective customers. A customer may or may not like a product, but that comes after she can evaluate it easily. No usability means no evaluations means no feedback and no sale. We would rather not have a feature than an unusable one.

Zero Baggage
inSync started as a disk-to-disk backup. It does not have any baggage that carries with a tape backup with disk-to-disk backup feature. We also tried not to pick non-core features along the way. If inSync picks up a new feature, be assured that Druvaa is very serious about it. We would rather have a small set of well deveoped features than a plathora of half cooked ones.

Release Early, Release Often (RERO)- The Apple Philosophy
inSync 1.0 was a small feature set, but a complete product. (Interestingly, a set of customers found that it meets all their requirements and continue to use it even today.) Note that RERO is not about the quality or usability of the product. It’s only about leaner releases, each with a small set of new features. RERO allowed us a rich customer feedback that helped us pick the next set of feature to focus on.

I’m not saying that we do not miss deadlines, but things are more predictable while dealing with a small set of features. RERO also implies seamless upgrades, which is an extra effort but much lesser than managing a big release. In essence, we would rather have a small release than a big one that never ships.

Team with Diverse Experience
Druvaa development team has engineers with extensive experience working on Windows, Linux, systems  programming, database programming, UI programming, QA development, you name it. Things would be different if all of us were brilliant system programmers but none knew how to do UI, or the other way round. I’m proud to say that inSync is a no handicap team and we strive to ensure that the product does not have any weak areas.

Python as The Programming Language
Kudos to Guido for a wonderfully intuitive language and kudos to the python team for the extensive set of modules. inSync uses C/C++ when it comes to heavy computation or interfacing with the operating system. But in both the cases, we managed to keep the C/C++ code to lower level functions. The high level logic is coded completely in python. It allowed us very fast developement of good quality, highly maintainable, cross platform code.

Don’t Reinvent, Reuse The Wheel
inSync uses Qt (PyQt) for GUI, PostgreSQL as database server and several other python modules. We picked these after extensive experimentation and analysis. We also contribute back any bug fixes and enhancements. It’s not about just reusing the wheel but choosing a good wheel and then making it better.

Please let us know if you have any feedback for the beta. Would be more than glad to take a look.