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After a month long limited “technology preview”, Druva inSync v4 beta will now be available to all partners, customers and new registrations starting July 15th.
InSync v4.0 codenamed after the Lockheed reconnaissance aircraft -SR71 Blackbird, will showcase 4 super stunning features -
- App-Aware Dedupe
- New Blackbird Storage Engine
- New Redesigned Octopus WAN Optimization Engine
- Web 2.0 Management Console & Interactive Dashboard
First of its kind, the app-aware dedupe engine understands the data structure for applications (like Outlook & MS Office), and deduplicates data at message or logical block level. This guarantees 100% dedupe accuracy, and a significant improvement in bandwidth/storage utilization.
The new (Blackbird) storage engine now utilizes a much advanced embedded database from Oracle instead of SQL database. Less than 1MB in size, the new database simplifies installation and adds raw rocket power to the dedupe engine. The new storage architecture will support 16TB of dedupe storage with 200+ parallel connections.
The new redesigned Octopus WAN Optimization engine is designed to optimally utilize both high speed networks and weakest of WAN links. The new auto-resume feature ensures that a large file is resumed after a network interruption.
A big fan of usability, the new web console is my favourite. It’s stunningly attractive and I personally love the dashboard. The new dashboard shows some interesting statistics like data composition of backup, user activity graphs, storage growth so on.
Details & Registration
Details about the new release and registration information is given here – http://www.druva.com/insync/version-4-0-beta
Please sign-up and someone from the beta program will contact you soon.
Final Release
The final release is expected to be around Aug 10th 2010. But the dates are not finalized yet and will mostly depend on how well is the beta is accepted.
Feedback
We would soon dedicate a thread in the forums for beta discussions. Please feel free to comment here on the blog or participate in the forums. This would surely help us design your backup better.
July 8th, 2010
Its all over the news. Finally a time to rejoice for Apple fanboys.
What I find really interesting is that Apple managed to build a $50 billion company just from 30 products against over 300 products from Microsoft. Apple has learned to monetize every single phase of the product: the hardware, the apps, the e-books, the music, the movies, the peripherals, the TV shows and soon the advertising, all while making over $600 off of each iPhone.
Meanwhile, MS thought it would do great selling $8 to $15 WinMo licenses. That might have worked if they had cornered at least 50% of the market but with less than 10%, WinMo will never be more than chicken feed with that strategy.
It’s clearly the laser sharp focus and emphasis to details what worked for Apple. Sharing an interesting quote from one of the emails I exchanged with Subinder some weeks ago -
(Planing for this year) ……. The best analogy I can give you is a laser beam. A laser is a million-times more powerful than ordinary light of the same wattage. Secret – the beam is tightly aligned in one direction (alignment of functions), and each photon is in the same phase (the little things). That is the magic we need. You have the first steps by laying out a vision. We will need to ensure all big investments as well as little things are aligned to the BIG VISION. The “strategic fit” becomes a filter for every action, message, priority for the team.
- Subinder Khurana, Advisor and Mentor, Druva Software
For the past two years, we have kept our focus on “laptop backup”, and I think we did deliver a good product. Now the million dollar question in front of us is to dig this well deeper or find another well 
I am sure, I have enough to learn from this story to make a decision now.
May 26th, 2010
After long waits and about 4 months of beta program, I am extremely excited to announce the general availability of Druvaa Phoenix v1.0.
The entire team has been super busy to make this happen. And I am sure it would be quite evident when you give it a try.
Reinventing Backup
Phoenix is designed ground-up for remote backups. Here are some of the key product features which make it ultra special -
- Global Source Based Data Deduplication – Over 90% reduction in backup time, bandwidth and storage.
- WAN Optimization – Understands high latency and noisy networks.
- Near Continuous Data Protection – snapshot/restore-points based point-in-time restores. No age-old full, incremental backups.
- Smart Bandwidth Scheduling - Set smart bandwidth limits for each backup schedule.
The Road Ahead
What we currently have is just a platform which will be used to showcase some market changing features -
- Search Based Restore – We missed this feature in v1.0, but should be available in the next v1.2 release
- “Blackbird SR-71“ – A new storage engine with application aware data deduplication. This should be able to match an attachment inside exchange store at New Jersey to a file stored in a file-server at Kent. This should set the standards for backup performance.
- Long Distance Replication – Replicate backed up data over noisy long distance IP networks.
- Advanced Dashboard – The second best reporting dashboard (after Google Analytics).
Application aware Agents - Phoenix currently only comes with generic Windows agent, we plan to introduce these starting v2.0
Useful Links -
I welcome you guys to download a copy and share your feedback !
December 15th, 2009
Happy to announce the new much awaited v3.1 release. This is an incremental release.
Some of the highlights include -
- Performance improvements for full-pc sync and BMR
- Managed Clients Upgrade
- More powerful bandwidth management
- Sync on log-off and shut-down
- Upgrade for v2.2 customers
Performance Improvements
We were planning to surprise the customers by introducing a new much faster and scalable storage (code name “blackbird”), but was pulled out at the last moment because of some stability issues. It’s now being planned for next major release.
But, the new release does bring some awaited improvements and recommendations for full-PC backup and BMR (Bare Metal Restore). The users should see about 1.5-2x performance improvements in sync and restore speed.
Manage Clients Upgrade
This new exciting feature would allow the administrator to remotely upgrade the backup clients across organization. The admin would be able to “push” the updates for the users for a particular profile. But, only the clients with version v3.1 or higher would understand this new protocol, hence this feature will only be usable from v3.1.x
Better Bandwidth and CPU Management
With this release, the administrator would be able centrally choose and lock granular bandwidth and CPU prioritization for users of a particular profile. The admin would now be able to provision bandwidth differently for LAN and WAN based connections.
Sync on log-off and shut-down
This would be an optional setting and force user backups on log-off and shut-down for Windows based clients. This was heavily demanded by administrators managing mobile workforce.
We hope to release the v3.1 by Oct 22, 2009. Please use the link here to register for updates.
- Happy Diwali
October 16th, 2009
While data growth is not new, the pace of growth has become more rapid, the location of data more dispersed, and the linkage between data sets more complex. We see a lot of customers curious about how we solve some of these challenges and very interested in “what’s coming next?”
We strongly believe in the “community” and trust that the software best evolves when guided by the active community. In an attempt to create a platform for healthy share of ideas and make the roadmap more transparent, we would be starting two new initiatives –
- A series of Webinars
- Druvaa Idea’s Forum (annoucement coming soon)
These webinars will share our thoughts on some of the challenges faced today and what’s our take on them. I would be taking up the first webinar of the series on Sep 1st 2009 and will be joined on the panel by project managers and some members of the sales team.
In this upcoming webinar I would go over -
- The key challenges faced by customers for ever growing local and remote data
- Best practices for backup and disaster recovery (DR)
- How Druvaa addresses some of these challenges
- And finally share and discuss the Druvaa innovation roadmap.
- The 40 minute presentation would be followed by a 20 minute Q&A session.
Who Should Attend
- Customers – End user who have deployed or planned a deployment of Druvaa Products
- Partners and Integrators – Druvaa Channel Partners and System Integrators
- Analysts – Industry Analysts and Independent Observers
Date and Time
Duration: 60 Minutes
Date: September 1st 2009
Time Options:
- US – 11:30 AM PST
- India – 2:30 PM IST
- EU – 2:30 PM GMT
August 26th, 2009
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)
- Usability Improvements
Find our more about beta and download a free copy from – http://www.druvaa.com/insync/beta
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
Product Page – http://www.druvaa.com/insync/laptop-backup
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/
February 26th, 2009
Druvaa today announced Christmas sale with flat 20% discount on all online purchases. This extends to all licenses models and support/annual-maintenance contract renewals.
Druvaa also announced significant changes to the license models and pricing structure for the flagship Druvaa inSync product -
- New “Quarterly” subscription model at $10/PC
- From now onwards upgrades would be Free of cost for both Annual and Quarterly subscriptions
- Pricing for platinum support contract has been slashed to 30%
Please check the new pricing at – http://www.druvaa.com/products/insync_buy.html
Download 30 day evaluation copy – http://www.druvaa.com/download/insync.html
For further information and sales queries please contact sales@druvaa.com
About Druvaa inSync
Druvaa inSync offers upto 10 times faster enterprise notebook backup compared to traditional methods with 90% reduction in bandwidth and storage utilization. The solution uses advanced data de-duplication technology to backup data duplicate between users only once. On restore the user sees a timeline view of data and can restore from any point in the past.
More information about the product – http://www.druvaa.com/products/insync.html
About Druvaa
Formed in 2007, Druvaa Software is a leading provider of Continuous Data Protection and Disaster Recovery solutions. Since inception Druvaa has released two products – Druvaa Replicator (Continuous Data Protection and Disaster Recovery) and Druvaa inSync (Enterprise Laptop Backup). Druvaa is angel funded by Indian Angel Network (IAN) and Accord International (HK).
About Druvaa – http://www.druvaa.com/about/
About Products – http://www.druvaa.com/products/
December 5th, 2008
Druvaa today announced the general availability of long awaited Druvaa inSync v2 on Linux platform.
The Linux release although still a beta, has all the features available in the Windows version. Key features include -
- Data Deduplication -10X Faster backup with 90% reduction in bandwidth and storage.
- Continuous Data Protection -Timeline based, from the past restore
- WAN Optimization – Network prioritization and bandwidth/packet scheduling
- Security – 256 byte 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
- Configuration API – Configuration API to enable integration with third party software
The first beta is launched as 32 bit RPM and DEB packages and supports following distributions -
- Fedore Core 8+
- Ubuntu 7.04+
- openSuse 10+
A detailed list can be found in Release Notes.
Download 30 day evaluation copy – http://www.druvaa.com/download/insync.html
Startups and OpenSource projects can get a FREE copy. Please write to opensource@druvaa.com.
For further information and sales queries please contact sales@druvaa.com
About Druvaa inSync
Druvaa inSync offers upto 10 times faster enterprise notebook backup compared to traditional methods with 90% reduction in bandwidth and storage utilization. The solution uses advanced data de-duplication technology to backup data duplicate between users only once. On restore the user sees a timeline view of data and can restore from any point in the past.
More information about the product – http://www.druvaa.com/products/insync.html
About Druvaa
Formed in 2007, Druvaa Software is a leading provider of Continuous Data Protection and Disaster Recovery solutions. Since inception Druvaa has released two products – Druvaa Replicator (Continuous Data Protection and Disaster Recovery) and Druvaa inSync (Enterprise Laptop Backup). Druvaa is angel funded by Indian Angel Network (IAN) and Accord International (HK).
About Druvaa – http://www.druvaa.com/about/
About Products – http://www.druvaa.com/products/
December 4th, 2008
Druvaa today announced the general availability of Druvaa inSync v2.2 which brings some of the most awaited feature innovations from Druvaa.
New features include -
- Admin configured backup folders – Admin can choose “must have” backup folders for each user profile
- Browser Restore – User when not on his PC, can use browser to access backed up files
- Advanced Reporting – Six different reporting options for flexible and detailed reporting
- Remote Restore -Admin can remotely restore file/folders on user’s desktop
- Configuration API – Configuration API to enable integration with third party software
A detailed list can be found in Release Notes.
Download 30 day evaluation copy – http://www.druvaa.com/download/insync.html
For further information and sales queries please contact sales@druvaa.com
About Druvaa inSync
Druvaa inSync offers upto 10 times faster enterprise notebook backup compared to traditional methods with 90% reduction in bandwidth and storage utilization. The solution uses advanced data de-duplication technology to backup data duplicate between users only once. On restore the user sees a timeline view of data and can restore from any point in the past.
More information about the product – http://www.druvaa.com/products/insync.html
About Druvaa
Formed in 2007, Druvaa Software is a leading provider of Continuous Data Protection and Disaster Recovery solutions. Since inception Druvaa has released two products – Druvaa Replicator (Continuous Data Protection and Disaster Recovery) and Druvaa inSync (Enterprise Laptop Backup). Druvaa is angel funded by Indian Angel Network (IAN) and Accord International (HK).
About Druvaa – http://www.druvaa.com/about/
About Products – http://www.druvaa.com/products/
October 24th, 2008
Druvaa today announced the general availability of Druvaa inSync v2.1 which brings latest performance innovations from Druvaa and beating the Fast inSync v2.0 by almost 25%.
New features and improvements include -
- Up to 25% performance improvement specially while backing up over the WAN. (Details)
- Upgrade support for 1.x and 2.0 installations.
- Unicode path/file-name support.
- Log file path support for XP/Vista and misc. bug fixes.
A detailed list can be found in Release Notes.
Download 30 day evaluation copy – http://www.druvaa.com/download/insync.html
For further information and sales queries please contact sales@druvaa.com
About Druvaa inSync
Druvaa inSync offers upto 10 times faster enterprise notebook backup compared to traditional methods with 90% reduction in bandwidth and storage utilization. The solution uses advanced data de-duplication technology to backup data duplicate between users only once. On restore the user sees a timeline view of data and can restore from any point in the past.
More information about the product – http://www.druvaa.com/products/insync.html
About Druvaa
Formed in 2007, Druvaa Software is a leading provider of Continuous Data Protection and Disaster Recovery solutions. Since inception Druvaa has released two products – Druvaa Replicator (Continuous Data Protection and Disaster Recovery) and Druvaa inSync (Enterprise Laptop Backup). Druvaa is angel funded by Indian Angel Network (IAN) and Accord Internation (HK).
About Druvaa – http://www.druvaa.com/about/
About Products – http://www.druvaa.com/products/
August 4th, 2008
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