The team at Druva is spread thin between 5 offices and 4 counties. And this gives all of us little chance to meet the entire team.
Closing series-A investment with Sequoia was probably a good enough reason to hold the first “All Hands” meeting. Everyone from all 5 offices travelled to work 1 week from the Pune (India) office. And it was great fun.
To begin with, the Iceland volcano made sure everyone flying from Europe and the east coast had to reschedule their flights. And soon after Borja and George boarded flights, Madrid and Istanbul were closed as well. And just before the event I broke my laptop
Finally when everybody arrived, it was a great cultural mix. The office was no less than the Heathrow airport.
It was mostly work and brainstorming sessions in the mornings and some serious fun in the evenings. We discussed pretty much everything from next big product feature to recipe for Garlic Naan. The week concluded with spending the weekend at a nearby forest resort.
Take away for me – There is no substitute for meeting in person.
Druvaa is the silver sponsor for the 6th edition of “the startup event” – Proto.in . The event would be held on July 25th in Pune. Here is a small article which appeared in the press recently.
I plan to attend the same with couple of more guys from Druvaa. Would love to catch and talk all things tech, statup, life and beyond.
Since I had stayed in Pune for over 3 years, here are some nice recommendations to raise a toast -
Yup, there has been no new posts over the past one month. March is financial year ending for us and kept all of us very busy.
Overall it was a good year for us. The economic slowdown actually brings new opportunities for small company like ours. Where most of our big competitors have deferred new products, scrapped new initiatives and reduces sales force – Druvaa demonstrated almost 300% QYQ growth rate
Last quarter we released a new major upgrade (v3), launched new website , acquired some great new customers and established some fabulous case studies & benchmarks.
In the next few posts, I would like to highlight some of these wins and how the road ahead looks like.
February 26, 2009 Druvaa announced the general availability of long awaited inSync enterprise laptop backup v3 beta on Windows platform. The beta release adds features like search, bare-metal restore and performance improvements.
Druvaa is one of the fastest growing startup in enterprise storage and 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 beta includes the following features -
Full PC Backup (with data deduplication)
Bare Metal Restore
Search functionality in restore
Performance improvements for large files (e.g. Outlook PST)
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 -
Data Deduplication – Saves 90% backup time, bandwidth and storage.
Continuous Data Protection – Timeline based, from the past restore
Backup for Remote Users – WAN Optimization for faster backups for remote users over WAN/VPN
Security – 256 bit SSL and 256 bit AES encryption
On-demand Restore – GUI and browser based restores from any point in the past
Advanced Reporting – Six different reporting options for flexible and detailed reporting
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).
Nasscom showcases emerging product companies at Product Conclave 2008.
Chaired by Dr Ganesh Natarajan, this session was a showcase of three of India’s emerging Software Product companies. Dr. Natarajan started by sharing his excitement on the NASSCOM’s Emerge Forum. He then briefly introduced the companies.
OrangeScape: OrangeScape is the creator of DimensionN, business application development platform for non-programmers. It is one of NASSCOM’s Top 100 Innovative Companies. <snip> …
iViz Technologies: Started at IIT Kharagpur and based out of Kolkatta, iViz Technologies is an IDG funded venture. IT offers world’s only end-to-end On Demand Automated Penetration Testing service on a SaaS based model. <snip> …
Druvaa Software: A startup in the area of Storage Solutions, Druvaa Software is also the winner of the recent TiE-Canaan Entrepreneurship Challenge. Based out of Pune, Druvaa is an Indian Angel Network funded company.
Jaspreet Singh, one of the founders presented their technology. Druvaa has developed a product that provides continuous data back-up. It’s targeted at medium-sized firms in sectors that rely heavily on data accuracy, such as financial services. Druvaa inSync v2.1 offers upto 10 times faster enterprise Notebook backup compared to traditional methods with 90% reduction in bandwidth and storage utilization.
While talking on their uniqueness, Jaspreet shared why they could acquired a Fortune 500 customer who was earlier using data backup solution, offered by Veritas.
Dr. Natarajan concluded the session by acknowledging the entrepreneurs for the confidence they displayed in their venture and also assured them that NASSCOM is there to provide them the platform to take their venture to the next level.
It was a great event with major focus on Indian entrepreneur ecosystem and innovation. Druvaa inSync got a good response, and helped us to understand the target audience better.
