Druvaa Deduplicates Its Name. Now Druva.com

Not so long back, a customer jokingly asked me “How are you guys selling data deduplication software, when your company has duplicates in it’s name” :) Well at that time, I did not have a good answer. But we did realize that people were facing issues remembering the extra “a“.

Druva Name Change

So, to make the brand recall simpler, we spent some good time, effort and money to removed the duplicate “A”.

The website has already been migrated (see www.druva.com)and now has a new cool logo as well. All the email addresses will be carried forward as-they-are to the new domain, and older email addresses will still be valid. Request you to make a change in your address book as well.

We soon will be migrating other sub-domains (blog, kb, forums etc.). The changes may take some time, and request you to be patient.

If you are a customer or listed somewhere in our salesforce.com, an email is probably already waiting in your Inbox guiding you through changes :)

Kingston 500GB USB Flash Drive !

First of all sorry for not updating this blog regularly, hopefully we soon will have a great news to break on the blog :)

Milind and myself were killing some free time in a Chinese market in New Delhi, and we suddenly noticed Kingston USB flash drives with 256GB capacity costing about $30. We checked everything and it looked all real :)

Flash Drive

I quickly googled and saw the same product on Kingston website. Well, I started to bargain and put my skills to test. And soon the poor guy was ready to sell it for $20 :) And just before I was about to pay, as a last (shameless) bargain tactic, I told to the guy “Well I am not too pleased, do you have something with bigger capacity” and holy shit, the next moment he handed over a 500GB Kingston Flash Drive. And now this was something, not even on the website !

Milind asked me, “Do you really want this ? I mean what will you use it for ?” and I said, well its a good toy for 20 bucks. And finally both of got ourselves, 2 flash drives of 500GB each :)

As soon I got to the flight, I started stress testing it … and surprisingly it still works !!

Shameless Geek Thought: And now I am thinking, if disks get bigger and bigger like this, backing them up would almost impossible. File-systems and hardware vendors surely need to come up with something intelligent (possibly like NTFS change log)  to avoid scanning the device for changes. Surprisingly, such interfaces are still not present in Linux (ext*) and Solaris (JFS).